Azzurro
What a wonder is technology. I was watching World Cup clips on YouTube and stumbled across a clip of the Italian football team recording a song for charity. In the comments section, someone said the song name was “Azzurro”, a traditional Italian song. Since I need to practice my Italian for October, I saw this as a perfect opportunity since I just need to increase my exposure, all basics having been mastered. It would be nice if I could put the song on my iPod nano in a learning-friendly mode.
So what did I do? Firstly, I launched WireTap Pro and recorded the actual singing parts of the movie clip into AAC format and saved the file to the desktop. Then, I found the lyrics on the internet and added them to my computer journal and left the entry open. Then, I scrolled to a group shot in the YouTube movie, and using Snapshot Pro (a widget), I took a picture of just the paused movie and saved that to the desktop. Now I had all the pieces. I dragged and dropped the AAC file into iTunes which is programmed to add all new clips to its own library. I had named the clip “Azzurro” to begin with, so I typed that into the search blank in iTunes and it immediately weeded out all other 25GB of music just so I could work on that one file. I did a “Show Info”, entered the artist as the Azzurri, put the composer’s name in the composer blank, called its genre “World” and copied and pasted the lyrics into the Lyrics tab. Then, I went to the Artwork tab, clicked “Add” and navigated to the desktop file where Snapshot Pro had dropped its file. iTunes took care of adding all resources to the file in seconds. The whole thing took about 4 minutes, most of that time being the real time recording of the song via the Mac’s internal microphone with WireTap Pro.
Awesome.
Posted on July 16th, 2006 under Life, Tech • 
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