For a number of reasons, including the new computer, I am rebuilding my digital music library, starting with importing my CD collection.
What does your music collection look like? Mine is pop music from the '60s to the early '80s, Broadway and film musical cast albums, and instrumental movie soundtracks. Favorites are the Beatles, the Carpenters, Simon & Garfunkel, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gershwin, Lerner & Loewe, John Williams, Miklos Rosza, and Wolfgang Korngold.
So a lot of my music is older than I am...in some cases much older. How about you?
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Saturday, July 18, 2020
New Computer II
OK...so I'm on the new computer. I never did manage to get the virtual machine with Windows 7 set up--because I couldn't get a working version of Win7 (or of any earlier version of Windows, despite having disks for 95 and 98 still on hand from older computers).
But it has forced me to explore some of the capabilities of parts of Win10 I wasn't aware of. Turns out Paint 3D will do a lot of the things I wanted that other, older, image program for...not in the same way and not without some finagling, but I can achieve many of the same effects.
I'd still like to find a good video editor, since Win10 eliminated Moviemaker. MS claims Photos' video editor is just as good, but--from what I can tell in playing around with it--no, it's not. For instance, in Moviemaker, I could "splice" two videos together by starting with one and then inserting the other one, and then doing a fade or some other transition to the next. Can't do that in Photos and believe me, I've looked through the instructions and the help files.
Anyone have a good video editor they trust, preferably free?
But it has forced me to explore some of the capabilities of parts of Win10 I wasn't aware of. Turns out Paint 3D will do a lot of the things I wanted that other, older, image program for...not in the same way and not without some finagling, but I can achieve many of the same effects.
I'd still like to find a good video editor, since Win10 eliminated Moviemaker. MS claims Photos' video editor is just as good, but--from what I can tell in playing around with it--no, it's not. For instance, in Moviemaker, I could "splice" two videos together by starting with one and then inserting the other one, and then doing a fade or some other transition to the next. Can't do that in Photos and believe me, I've looked through the instructions and the help files.
Anyone have a good video editor they trust, preferably free?
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
New Computer
I'm coming to you today thanks to a new computer.
My old one has been on its last legs for at least a year and especially became difficult after Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7. Yesterday, a program I use a lot began crashing, and when I tried to re-install it, the system insisted it needed more disk space, even though I had deleted the bad version of that program.
So, that settled it. I did a little investigation and within two hours brought home a brand new HP desktop from Best Buy. A few hours after that, it was up and running with all my old programs...except one that won't even install on Windows 10. Knowing that might be an issue even before yesterday, I had explored my options and my computer whiz son suggested a "virtual machine." I have now contacted him for advice on how to set that up.
My old one has been on its last legs for at least a year and especially became difficult after Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7. Yesterday, a program I use a lot began crashing, and when I tried to re-install it, the system insisted it needed more disk space, even though I had deleted the bad version of that program.
So, that settled it. I did a little investigation and within two hours brought home a brand new HP desktop from Best Buy. A few hours after that, it was up and running with all my old programs...except one that won't even install on Windows 10. Knowing that might be an issue even before yesterday, I had explored my options and my computer whiz son suggested a "virtual machine." I have now contacted him for advice on how to set that up.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)