"Capturing a song" is an easy to grasp concept, but many people overlook it, and among those who do know of it, most have no faith in it.
It is rather simple, and it can be derived from a quick look at my directories of Mp3 songs, where many very bad songs lurk, never touched. They have been captured by me. But what does it mean, and why do I do it?
As I said, simplicity outlines the issue. Very often you get a bad song stuck in your head, and for some reason wherever you go you seem to hear it, which just adds to the echoes in your mind. "I hear it all the time, anywhere I go!" Obvious. Thinking that, one day I realized the next step: I needed to be able to not hear a bad song whenever or wherever I wanted not to hear it. So I downloaded it. If I am not mistaken, the first song I captured was "Truly, Madly, Deeply", by Extreme, which I prefer to call "the I'll be I'll be song". By having this song as an Mp3 file in my collection, I could at any time not play it, keep it out of my playlist, look at it and close the window, open the file and keep the volume down, change its tags - and yet never listen to it. I had control over the song, I had the ability to not listen to it at any time. And very often throughout the day I would not listen to it, and smile. As a result, it walked out of my mind, and stopped following me everywhere I went.
So the concept of capturing a song was created, and I have captured many songs since then. Troublesome song playing everywhere you go, just download an Mp3 of it and stare at it for two minutes, then remind yourself of how you are not listening to that song right now because you have the choice not to, you have control.
It is wonderful. And I just sounded like a self-help book. On such an important subject.
Bah.
Posted by Etienne at July 20, 2003 07:33 PM