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Episode 104: Grab Your Revolver

Back to Work

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2013

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Modern Media Management: Metadata and Smart Playlists

This week Dan and Merlin continue their 3-part series on Modern Media Management: handling your iTunes Library, iOS Devices, and iTunes Match without making yourself crazy.

In this episode, the focus is on fixing audio metadata, with a big discussion of the awesome MusicBrainz and Picard.

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This week's episode for Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace (use offer code "NICE" for an additional 10% off); Shutterstock (use code "BACKTOWORK1" for 30% off); and Smile's TextExpander.

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0:00.0

I'm a little you can hear the congestion, but I'm a I feel great. I feel great. It's just this little congested thing. Can we still do the show you think with that or shouldn't or no?

0:16.0

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you should probably edit out all of your parts or at least run it through a probably a cough pass filter.

0:25.0

Compressor learner. You might want to do a roll off on the 5K. Maybe the 5 and a half cake. Learn whatever it takes.

0:34.0

I haven't watched Mr. Mom in so long. Are you doing okay? So you were you were so you didn't sound sick last week if you had a short cold.

0:42.0

Last week I think I was I was it was beginning.

0:48.0

But then it just went and it has that thing where it's like you know it's just this little bit of congestion that's remaining I had a all the symptoms that I had the the tonsil thing which is painful for two days really bad.

1:01.0

I hate that. I hate that and we like cancel on stuff. Yeah, it hurt it hurt. But I think it's all right.

1:10.0

The literally the last thing the world I want to talk about today's boot isn't but but it's it's funny literally but you know what's funny is like you don't I feel like I don't realize how relatively healthy I am until something stupid like that happens and I can't stop thinking in that case about like how much my throat hurts.

1:28.0

Third time other time I hurt my foot.

1:32.0

I was still a young man and I I behave like a young man and I was living in Florida and I want to check the mail and I did what I always did was I irresponsibly ran out in bare feet and hopped up these stone steps and in retrospect what I think I did and what the doctor seemed to agree with apparently was that I had pulled like an extremely small muscle I guess in my

1:56.0

in step and every and there's nothing they can do for that either. I guess it has just take it off well for Burnley style. Yeah, it's got a good mustache. I am I every obviously every step that I took for days was just excruciating like you know that kind of like overwhelming like when you're a little kid and have an earache that kind of pain where it's just like existentially overwhelming.

2:23.0

So now you know I get more pains but you know the third thing makes me hyper aware of how relatively not sick I am.

2:32.0

It's just when it's some kind of a constant constant thing that's going on that the chronic pain.

2:41.0

Even it only temporarily chronic. Yeah, you can have a temporary I've had temporary chronic things this allergy thing I'm telling you it's it's monkey balls. I think our house might have the sick building syndrome. I'm not sure I'm out of a sick building.

2:53.0

I don't know. It feels like I only sneeze when I get home might be a gig in silent type situation where I'm allergic to my family. I don't think so I like them.

3:01.0

But you know being sick is no fun. No, you're a flu shot. No, I got to do that. I got to do that.

3:09.0

I'm not the Walgreens anyway. I guess we'll get a shot. I mean you hang out there. It's like your second office. I take these mixed nuts.

3:16.0

I guess you like pale green. No should be able to use some ADD medicine. Me give me a shot. I'm watching too much Maria Bamford now doing bits.

3:32.0

I gotta get sound way more mellow today. I'm so excited last week. I'm pretty excited. I got up you know early ish and I've been pounding away on this iTunes stuff.

3:46.0

I got to it, a lot to it. I hope that this will not frustrate people who come here for help and productivity with their work because this may seem like a derail.

3:57.0

But I think I think a lot of us suffer in silence. This does go back slightly to the life hack stuff. A lot of us suffer in silence with our incredibly costly computers and devices.

4:08.0

So frustrating. But yeah, I think this will help people. I don't mean to go right into the show.

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