I'm conducting an experiment to answer two questions that have plagued mankind since 2005: 1) "what would happen if I switched my blog software from MovableType to WordPress?" and 2) "while we're doing that, how about changing all of my music from an uniquely-organized hierarchy of mood-based directories and files to iTunes?"
The transition to Wordpress is going along better than I thought. It has hooks built in to import several different blog formats, including MovableType, Bloggerspot and LiveJournal. Through arcane knowledge of Apache's .htaccess files, I've been able to map over the most obvious links to the new file structure. Next, fix the formatting. Seeing four-plus years of archives makes me feel very old...
Itunes' meta data approach appeals to my enthusiasm to slice, dice, and julienne... but it's not been easy with my large-ish collection in its current state. Is there an easy way to map "Police," "The Police," "Sting and the Police" and "The_Police" to just one thing without manually selecting the four artists, selecting all the songs, then doing a Get Info?
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