no worries! like @NegativeInf said, Audacity is a great place to start. Its open source, and there's lots of step by step help online about how to use it and do the things
Google could have simply preserved my metadata OR sent the files in “artist/album”
Which they most certainly can do. My condolences to the time you'll never get back.
I suppose the silver lining is familiarity with a new set of tools and mechanisms for working through arduous minutia of it all. Could be a pretty neat utility if it could all be packaged up.
This right here is the fail safe that all these SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and other aaS offerings have inherently built into themselves. They make it so "easy" to get your data (as they put it) but so fucking mind-numbingly annoying to have it any kind of usable/archive-able format.
If I want to move my data from one platform to something else, it shouldn't involve a Six Sigma certified consultant, a bag of bespoke tools, and a sacrificial offering. This isn't a CRM migration at a multi-national conglomerate, I just want my files (you can have em!) in a usable format (they'll work!) correctly named and structured (yeah, no...)
The average person isn't going to go through the lengths you've gone through here; because they'll try to and just go right back. I mean, the average person has a hard enough time getting affordable groceries....forget about a sacrificial blood letting.
Out of curiosity, how much time did you spend researching as you went through this process of hitting speedbump after speedbump?
Bald up top, and a big fuck-off uncontrollable 70s afro down below.
Neatly trimmed to look exactly like an elephant shaped chia pet. Orgasms ruined because the beauty and awe THIS burning bush elicits, but I don't care because it's been classified as one of the natural wonders of the world
I call bullshit. Israel won't end the war and US financial support is certainly not going to dry up. Bunch of hearsay to stoke a bit of "we're trying to do the right thing"...
I've got two kids, roughly the same age as your niece and nephew. For a while I thought along the same lines as you, and was perpetually trying to find ways to distract one so the other has room to grow. It took some hard lessons, and looking around and seeing other people struggling with similar difficulties; what i eventually figured out is that we tend to underestimate what the younger child is capable of because we tend to see them through the lens of "older vs younger".
Once i got rid of that lens, I was just about shocked to see how hard my youngest pushes himself to do the things his older sister is doing. He's doing things now that my daughter at the same age wasn't able to; and I wonder how much of that is a function of her capabilities vs limitations I imposed on her based on a series of assumptions.
My advice to you, don't differentiate too much; you'll be very much surprised by what the little one is capable of. It WILL take more than an attempt or two, but if you're able to stick through and watch how your nephew behaves you'll most likely notice some mimicry and very concerted attempts to be able to do what his older sister is doing. Sometimes he'll be successful and they'll both play/do the thing together. Other times, he's won't, he'll get frustrated, then he may act out; and on some occasions he'll just get bored and this is where you'll need to do some entertaining for a few minutes so he doesn't go right to his sister to try and get her to stop doing the thing he can't do (yet).
The side benefit of this is that once established, you'll be able to dedicate one-on-one time to each as you see fit without feelings of unfairness or one feeling left out. In essence, don't hold him back; pull him along and he'll push himself forward to match his sister.
Kids are people too, drunk people, but people none the less.
Oh i totally got that when i read your comment; what i'm saying is that at this point, and with how blatant it is, its starting to look like this may actually be the result they've been working towards. So it's starting to not look like insanity anymore. And THAT sends chills down my spine
I think it stands to reason that on particular levels you're aligning yourself with "them". But... that's the whole point of empathy...its only when you see pieces of yourself in others that you can empathize with their existence or experience.
I guess its the human tragedy....we're all so much alike in our struggles, it's just the theatres that are different. But for some, that difference is enough to obscure the mirror and people see a monster where its just a reflection.
Something I read online ages ago that kind of struck a chord with me....it was something to the effect of "treat your home like a playground and not a museum". And you know what, it's true! I enjoy it when people in my home feel comfortable picking up a knick-knack that looks interesting to them, especially so if I see a kid eyeing something and the look on their face when I hand it to them! Within reason of course :)
Happy to share a few pictures of what I've got going on over here, especially if it'll help inspire you to put that first nail in the wall!
I shouldn't have laughed at this, but I did. Loudly.