Now, the basic way to fix such issues is to disable artwork on your iPod, wait for the iPod to update, then re-enable. However, it was during this re-enabling process that I would get a (-50) error. Now only some of the albums were showing any art, but most of them were blank. Basically the only solutions I found were “use a different cable” and “do a restore”. Since I couldn’t find my old cable, I was basically left with the latter. This did not make me happy, since Apple in all its glory took out the ability to take songs off your iPod and onto your hard drive easily.

Backing up the music wasn’t hard for me, just annoying, and the restore is just a one click process. Reimporting all that music (I had about 5.36GB) was the long part; not so much getting the files into the library, as deleting all the duplicates-because again, Apple didn’t see fit to have such a feature built in.

But yay, the iPod is working properly again. Today, I spent a good portion actually going through the albums that never had any artwork to begin with and tried to fix that. In some cases I had to actually make my own (like for mixes, or what-have-you). I really wish you could do the Find Album Art thing on your iPod.

And yes I am anal about the cover art, because it’s silly to have a fancy iPod with coverflow, if you don’t have covers!

You know, in December I started trying to rip all my CDs to put on my iPod, and I’m not even in the H’s yet. Why do I have so many damn CDs. I’ll probably want to rip my mix CDs too, because I’m just that anal. I also can’t remember which purchased songs from iTunes I have moved over to the iPod and which I haven’t and oh my god is this a boring subject.

Maybe I should talk about Niklas and his anime lifestyle. Niklas enjoys such fares as Fullmoon and Dragonball Z. I can’t be 100% certain, but he might also be an expert on Yu Gi Oh. No this is boring me too.

I had some issues with my host the other day. It was not a happy experience. It finally worked itself out, but I imagine that I now have a “Bitchy Ass Customer” flag next to my name. That’s ok. As long as my sites work I am happy. I did try to be nice at first, even used an emoticon, but towards the end there I was at the end of my rope and wanted them to know it. Lo and behold a light bulb went off and things got solved.

I had somehow forgotten over the last few weeks that I am supposed to be making a new forum layout. phpBB 2 had a lot of issues and lack of certain features that I needed, but when it comes to theme making it was so much easier than vBulletin! Oh phpBB how I miss the single folder of images, and the single CSS file to edit. Oh Jelsoft, please make vBulletin 4.0 more streamlined. And by streamlined I mean less bloated, thanks bb.