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I’ve always been a music fan. Not a die-hard-fan, but one with lots of music and decent equipment. During the era of CD’s, I routinely bought new discs, and they accumulated in hundreds. And then hard disk prices fell and network speeds grew, and I wanted to digitize all I had. This was years ago, maybe around year 2004. I wanted everything in lossless format, as digitizing was slow and I was not going to do it again. “Alternative” media format (.flac, .ogg) support was poor in Windows world, and I chose lossless windows media audio (WMA). I spent many evenings changing the disc on my laptop, and typing album and track names when they were not automatically found from media info databases. ...

I visited NDC 2012 and enjoyed the conference a lot. Again. Awesome speaker lineup without too much product group advertisements. Lots of thought provoking lessons. Lots of fun tongue-in-the-cheek style stuff in between. Like Damian Edwards and Rob Conery “fighting” each other with SignalR and Socket.io, respectively (video here). On that cage match Rob used a cool narrator from command line (they used narrators since Damian had lost his voice), and for some reason that fascinated me. ...