{"id":1342,"date":"2009-06-13T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T00:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2009-06-15T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T15:57:15","slug":"better-worlds-2nd-edition-ipod-ware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/better-worlds-2nd-edition-ipod-ware\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Worlds, 2nd Edition.  iPod ware."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to take a couple of weeks off from the blog and let my mind open up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/colehardware.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been tuning up my iPod today.  I\u2019d noticed that when you use the automatic \u201cget album art\u201d\u009d in iTunes, there\u2019s a number of albums that get left out (and some get the &#8220;wrong&#8221; cover).  Here\u2019s an interesting site that helps you <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.art4itunes.com\/\"> download and install album art <\/a>for your iTunes display&#8212;this particular tool is useful if you make up a playlist of all your albums that <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> have art, and save the playlist as a text file with iTunes 8.1 or above.  If this it too much hassle, you can Google for the album name, find an image and drag it into a box in a File|Get Info dialog that iTunes can show you for the imageless album.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/boingtireshadow.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I also found a truly freeware little program called <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codershole.com\/idump.php?id=7a2d9c1350046daf1495d398d35fb961\">iDump <\/a>that copies your iPod music to your PC&#8212;written by a programmer in I think Australia.  It took me a while to find this gem&#8230;if you just Google for \u201cfree software copy iPod,\u201d\u009d the stuff you\u2019ll find mostly isn\u2019t free at all.  If you find a similar program for the Mac, post the link in a comment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/rudypaintingsgrid.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I put together a second edition of my Lulu book, <em><a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/5353188\"><strong>Better Worlds<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, which now includes 57 of my paintings rather than 47.  (Yes, there&#8217;s only 55 in the grid above, but there&#8217;s 57 in the book).  You can see a full low-resolution <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/pdf\/rucker_betterworlds_2ndedition_lores_6_14_2009.pdf\">preview of <em>Better Worlds <\/em>online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/rudyandmikecaddy.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>[Photo by George Edwards]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My friend Mike Gambone sent me a picture of us in Richmond, by his convertible Cadillac on an epic drive from Lynchburg, Va, to see the Clash play in Williamsburg, Va.  This was back in the <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BL2h8p1nYYc\">Dead Pigs<\/a> days, 27 years ago.  Good old Mike.  He played this enormous saxophone.  Edgar Allan Poe might be inside that big building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/rudyandmikecaddydetail.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sometime this summer there\u2019s a chance I\u2019ll pass through Copenhagen, Denmark, and the towns of Bergen and Aalesund in Norway&#8212;if you\u2019re a fan of mine living in one of these places, email me, and maybe we can make a plan to get coffee or have a meal together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/95evlonetree.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to take a couple of weeks off from the blog and let my mind open up. I\u2019ve been tuning up my iPod today. I\u2019d noticed that when you use the automatic \u201cget album art\u201d\u009d in iTunes, there\u2019s a number of albums that get left out (and some get the &#8220;wrong&#8221; cover). 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