I am such a nerd. I have spent roughly the past 2 hours organizing a folder of recordings dating back to 2013, which I will probably not listen to much in the future, if at all. but still I am organizing them now so that they are structured like my current files. This is what it looks like when my OCD comes out. Lol
Ray Dog
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Hello there! I'm just another blind, geeky audio person. And maybe a fwoof too. Anyhow, my biggest interests are music transcription and various synthesizers. I also do a bit of gaming, though I tend to stick to action-based offline audio games. I'm fairly shy and probably a bit strange by some people's standards, so I try to be easy going and open minded around others. Hopefully I can contribute something interesting to your timeline!
@Bri Well dang. Rofl you scared me for a sec on that first message, I thought you were going to say, I had literally 100 percent of everything I care about on that machine. But yeah no, you said you backed it up. I know it wasn't intentional but if it was, oh boy you would've gotten me good.
@Bri Oof, I'm surprised Windows even installed then. Wish I could be helpful, but the only thing I can think of is to do the stuff you can't exactly do right now. Test ram, hd, or somehow get someone to look inside the tower to see if connections look broken. Or maybe something is overheating and it needs new thermal paste? No frigging idea, and of course you don't exactly have the means to just, have someone compatent magically come over and help you with this. That... Sucks bigtime.
@dodecahedron Yeah me too. Sometimes when I look back at my old stuff, I go through the same emotins that I bet people with body image issues feel like. I'm too tall, I'm too fat, I'm too whatever, except for me, it's too nerdy, too hyper/silly, too crazy about x y z. Like I know if I were in that situation now in 2026 I would've acted way differently.
@dodecahedron Yeah something like that. Except most of the shit I use now didn't exist in 2013, or if it did, it would've been a lot more limited/harder to use, so there's that. God when I listen to some of that old stuff I almost want to just delete it... It incriminate sme in some aspects and I just can't bare listening to it. But I can't. It's truly irreplaceable stuff.
@dodecahedron Yeah when I record from TT, I actually keep both. One file with everything together, and separate files for isolations. Trouble is, back in 2013 ish, most of the stuff I recorded was on Skype, Face Time and stuff like that, and I didn't know how to get fancy. All I could think of was just use two gold waves. Control f9 on one, alt tab, control f9 on the other, and bam, I'm recording everything. That kinda forced me to keep things separated, and it... Wasn't ideal. Syncing those files to put the whole recording back together is a real bastard. If I could've used OBS, or Audio Capture, it would've made things so so much easier. Lol
@dodecahedron Lol yeah that's a big reason I try to use folders more now. Let me tell you though, it's stupid anoying when I extract soething and it gives me a folder of like, 60,000 or more files that I have to portion out nicely.
In this particular case though, that wasn't the issue. This time I'm just renaming call recordings. If I recorded a call with you in 2013, I would have saved it as, alexander1.1, and alexander1.2. The first number is the call recording number so I can keep them in chronological order, the second number is which file it is (since I like recording each thing to a separate file when possible). I wanted to put the date in, but was too lazy back then to check the date and write it in.
In 2018, I stopped being quite so lazy and started naming them like this: alexander1 mar 16 2013a, and alexander1 mar 16 2013b. In other words, I started putting the date in the file name, and using letters at the end. A is always my side. If there's no letter, then it's a conference call, where everything is in one file.
Probably the hardest part of renaming the old files is putting the dates in. Fortunately most of them have a correct date for last modified, so I can go by that. I feel a lot safer having the date in the name, though.
@Bri @BorrisInABox Lol I haven't had any of that, my dreams are always in the category of, "I don't know what the hell I'm doing but I know it's important for me to be here."
Probably the most bizarre one I had was having to improvize my way through a classical concert. I was supposed to have learned the piano part, but I had no idea how the piece went, so I had to listen to the orchestra and noodle around. Um... Yeah, this isn't jazz, that isn't how you're supposed to do that.
The weirdest part though was that some random girl approached me afterward to admire my effort. Turns out she was another pianist who just happened to learn that piece for whatever reason and could play it better than I ever could, and next thing I knew I had a crush on her over that, and it was starting to get interesting in ways that only dreams do, when I woke up. Ngl, I really liked that dream, but it's the only dream I can remember that started off icky and got better. Lol
Why do I keep having nightmares about school? Either I'm sitting in a class and am completely unable to process the information being said, or I'm on my way to an exam and can't remember what's on it, or where it is. Last night was at least the third or fourth time I can consciously remember having a dream like that, and I'm sure there were more before I lowkey started trying to count them.
Not sure where these dreams are coming from, since overall I didn't do too bad in school. There were definitely rough spots, everything from feeling isolated and alone in a class I couldn't follow but everyone else seemed to be fine with, to meltdowns over assignments, to a bit of cheating when I didn't think I could pass if I played fair. But still, I had more decent experiences than bad ones, and in the end everything turned out okay. I didn't even start having these dreams until well after I graduated. So yeah... Not sure what my silly brain is doing.