||Title||Time||Speaker||Lecture||Rating|| ||:--:||:--:||:--:||:--:||:--:|| ||Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq||1:34:16||Larry Diamond, ’74, MC ’78, !PhD ’80||Regional Speaker Event (Denver)||★★★★|| ||Perception, Decisions, and Reward: Toward a Neurobiology of Decision Making||2:00:35||William T. Newsome||Bio-X: Talks in English|||| ||Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review||1:15:13||Larry Kramer||Regional Speaker Event (Monterey)|||| ||The United States and the World||58:28||Philip Zelikow||Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies|||| ||U.S. Foreign Policy: The Road Ahead||53:29||Samuel R. Berger||Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies|||| ||Looking Ahead: A New Nuclear Arms Race||1:24:38||Scott Sagan, Christopher Chyba, Hans Blix||Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies||★★★★|| ||Gurus, Hired Guns, & Warm Bodies||1:29:27||Steve Barley||Management Science & Engineering|||| ||Presidential Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy||1:53:50||Coit Blacker, Larry Diamond, Judith Goldstein, William Perry, George Shultz||Reunion Homecoming 2004||★★★||
Copying the MP3 files from iTunes proved to be impossible. iTunes insisted on copying the M4A files instead. This program truly is *teh suks*!
That’s how innocent geeks like me end up writing command lines like the following:
for f in ~_Music*iTunes/iTunes\ Music/*.m4a; do f=`dirname $f``basename $f .m4a`.mp3; echo $f; cp $f .; done _
This assumes that you converted all your M4A files to MP3 and want to copy them all to the current directory. This works for me because the Standford files are the only M4A files I have.
OSX also sucks when used for removable drives such as MP3 players, because deleting files will just move them to a hidden directory on the same device, so you’re forced to empty the trash if you do that. And emptying the trash will empty the trash for *all* devices. *Teh suxs* – I’m telling ya’!
I found out how to delete the M4A files: After converting the files, they are still listed in your Stanford music store folder, but in your library, each title is listed twice. With no indication of which file is the MP3 file and which file is the M4A file, I took some random samples and decided that the second file is the one I want to delete. Manually mark these, and delete them, moving the files to the trash, then double-check there (sort by date and try to find your files in the messy list).
The longer I work with the system, the more I am convinced that this is not what I consider to be usable software. All tasks except sorting, playing, streaming, and downloading tricky and convoluted, involving a lot of manual clicking, double-checking and experimenting. Yuck!
I noticed that the MP3 files I listened to seem to end about a dozen minutes early. I’ll have to listen to the discussions at the end on iTunes and check that the M4A files are complete.
I generally believe in writing text instead of simple scoring. Therefore:
#Music
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Where can I get the one by “William T. Newsome”?
– V 2005-10-24 11:23 UTC
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Unfortunately I am getting the feeling that you *must* use iTunes to download the lectures. Ouch!
– Alex Schroeder 2005-10-25 15:46 UTC