I don't know why I do this to myself. Really, I don't.

I have so much music on the hard-drive, but I squirrel it away... well... like a squirrel -- with seeming randomness, I save tracks I like to my hard-drive and then promptly forget where it was I put them.

Now, I know I put on "Inner Universe" -- the opening theme to "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" -- my hard-drive. I know it, because I bought the CD with that song on specifically so I could put it on my computer and listen to it again and again and again and again -- just like I like to.

I haven't listened to it in awhile, and now I want to and I'll be damned if I can find where it was that I hid it. Sadly, this is NOT the first time I've done this. I've lost and found the end theme to "Metal Gear Solid 2", like a dozen times. Same thing with Paul McCartney's "Hope of Deliverance" and REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It".

So, I go looking for the song -- I find an unmarked folder, full of untitled songs. Turns out it's the first half of the Rolling Stones two disc set "40 Licks" that I got for Christmas eons ago. Evidently, I put it on the hard-drive, but neglected to download a track listing that showed up... or something. Really, god knows what I did -- whatever it was, clearly, I f-ed it up.

Anyway, I'm happy right now listening to the Rolling Stones, but sooner or later I'd like to find "Inner Universe". Most likely, I'll have to dig up the CD from where-ever I stored it (because god forbid I make anything easy for myself) and rip it back onto the computer again.

Sad thing is, after I've done that... I'll find the folder the song was in, no doubt in some perfectly obvious place I neglected to look in.

*head-desk*

If you have WIndows, there's a search option. I think if you open the Start menu you should see it somewhere at the bottom.

This may or may not work, but you COULD try just having a folder for your music. I tend to be very organized when it comes to computers, and I find that just making new folders and labeling them saves a lot of trouble when you need to find things.
» randomjunk on 2007-10-15 03:53:02

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