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Ugh. I tried playing around with Ableton Live last night. As part of one of my goals, I’m trying to learn it so that I can use the mp3s I bought to make a new mix. The tracks I selected are *sweet*, but I’m frustrated at Live already.

First of all, I don’t have patience to sit through the tutorials. I know, I know. But I just want to put tracks together and beatmatch them. That has to be seriously the easiest thing to do in Live but all the tutorials seem to do is teach me everything *else*. Bah.

Secondly, it’s not even like I’m really DJ-ing. I *love* the feel of vinyl and I know I’m still a n00b at this Live crap, but I’m not sure I’ll get over the fact that I prefer the physical manipulation of records on a turntable and knobs on a mixer. (Heheheheheh, I said “knob”.) (Ugh… Then I said “heh” a bunch of times.)

Anywho, that’s where I am with that goal… I also got rid of more shit via Freecycle.

Also, I’ve become *obsessed* with downloading and organizing artwork for music in iTunes. And for the mixes I’ve created myself or downloaded from other DJs, I’ve *created* images so I don’t see that default music note thing that tells me I’m missing artwork.