The Mystery Track...

Recently we learned about the intricacies of a program called iTunes of which with all of it's features has a built in, clear the throat...backup program...

The iTunes built in backup program verifies our claim that Apple is fadware, it's added simply for Apple to say, we have a backup program...

We'll admit it's a far cry better than what Android has to go through in order to backup their phone data, but nonetheless, a lightweight wannabe, but we digress...

It's the little setbacks like this that help us realize there's a bigger picture that opens up a realization that we look at life through a peephole...

Where we're going with this is, we lost our music thinking that Apple had backed it up, but it didn't, profiles were gone and music was gone...

Now to be fair to Apple, we still have one more test to perform to confirm whether or not local to remote drives have an effect on the profiles...

Although, we'll wait until we need to reload before we test that last theory, but it may be sooner than later because we noticed a sync problem with Outlook Email losing all of our contacts when we add our password to accounts under settings...

Our Email works, folders sync up with our Email, but as soon as you add your password all the contacts disappear, is very weird and we have to restore the contacts from iTunes...

That's not why were here though, and will save that discovery for another day, another blog post...

When the Piriform virus problem hit we decided to reinstall our computer, and of course w/out Piriform...

When we lost our 5s, we weren't too happy, the Piriform issue didn't make us happy, having to reinstall, we don't care, it's a pretty easy process for us, but we did something different this time...we didn't backup our music...

We knew that we had all of our music backed up, so we really didn't care, but what we did know was that not all the music comes across named...

For one reason or another some music just doesn't sync up with the naming servers to get titled and stays as an 0 something or a 11 or 12 something...

In other words, it stays as Track 01 or track 11 or track 12 with no title, no song name, just a track...

We had to name the file manually for most of the music because the track didn't update, and selectively decided not to remember how long that process takes...

Transferring all your music from CD to your Phone takes some time and when cars don't accept CD's anymore, your forced to transfer all your music to your portable device...

Going from Record to 8 track was a big deal because it meant you can take your music with you in the car which was a big deal for it's time...

Then they took 8 track to cassette which still meant you were still portable but you were portable with more music...

Then they went to CD, which didn't mean you had more music, it just meant that you didn't have to fast forward or rewind anymore, you just pressed...next...

That was a big deal, but now we're back to adding more music for your portable device, just like we were years ago when we added more music to the cassette...

History repeating itself, over and over again and here we are again with the Mystery Track, another example of History repeating itself...

When CD came out the big feature of no rewind or fast forward was short lived because it wasn't that big of an advancement and you lost your mobility...

Portable radios were now losing their luster because as soon as you would move around the tracks would skip, the songs would skip, which made the new technology look stupid...

Oh, they tried to make portable devices work, like the backpack CD that strapped around the front of your chest would still skip, and made you look like an idiot on top of the skipping...

Then they discovered that LP sounded better than CD and that's coincidentally enough, why LP is still relevant today, even with the static it produces from the needle...

The High Fidelity is true High Fidelity and NO CD can compare to an LP...

So CD had to do something, so they made multiple CD holders to increase the one CD to 5 CD's or more, and that was a big improvement and that technology lasted all the way up till now, but a CD still scratches...

They used to have home CD systems that you can stack a lot of CD's into, and the cool thing about them was that you could program in your tracks so when they played the song title would stream across the led...

That was cool, however, those home CD players were crap because they had too many moving parts and as soon as that CD player broke, you had to go out and buy a new one and you had to program back in all that music...

That's a lot of work and coincidentally enough is exactly where we are today with having to name all of our songs so they come across the screen with the title, and to be honest with you, we just don't want to do it...

So we loaded all of our songs onto our iPhone as is, track 01, 02, 11 and 12 etc..., but we noticed something, that was kind of cool...

What we noticed was, other than the fact that we had music again, was that we had a mystery track...

We had a song that was gonna play that we had no idea what it was going to be and that was intriguing and enlightening at the same time...

The generation of today have it so easy, they just speak into a device and Viola, it's there, title, date, definition, pronunciation and multi-lingual...

Their life has been streamlined and programmed into a continuum that's created a status quo of sorts of what to follow and who to follow...

Everything has to make sense, everything has to be the same, it has to be replicated from one platform to another...

This makes sense in a corporate setting where you can go from one job to another, start and stop where you left off to reduce the amount of training, but not good for a multi-cultural world...

This is why Millennials have so much trouble talking to anyone else but a Millennial, because if they don't think and act like they do, they get confused and anxious...

The technology of today is the work that the Baby Boomers and Gen X'rs created over years of working in a multi-cultural environment...

This is what these generations created, to make life easier, which it has, but it's so easy that it doesn't have enough controversy, so they'll never understand what it takes to create the world we have today...

This generation hasn't had to truly work for anything, and with the Government continually taking money from the hard working individuals to provide free services for the people that don't work advances the continuum...

That's why we say, it doesn't matter that the track doesn't have the title in it, that you don't know what song is going to play next, what artist it's going to play...

We say, let it go, let it be, let it differentiate, let it surprise you, forget what you know, what you think you know, what you want to know...

Go to a restaurant you've never been before, watch a movie you've never seen before, pick a city you've never visited before, read a book you've never read before, talk to a person you've never talked to before...

There's nothing wrong with a little mystery in your life, that's why there's nothing wrong with having a mystery track in your collection...

There was a time that is was everything to be in the groove, but we say, it's time to get out of the rut of the groove and start to move...and that's a fact!

"Running Water Never Goes Stale" Bruce Lee...

Bruce Lee Philosophy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQWYHHqvIw

Innovation and Imagination, you have it in you, all you gotta do...is let it...goooooo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN5wemX-8zY

Symphony of Science, created by John D. Boswell...
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/about.html