Well, There’s quite a few title strip creators available on the internet and I’ve been using them for quite a while.  They all work pretty well.  So why create another one?  Well, I really wanted to have a custom image put on a strip for my Christmas song selections this year.  That’s it.  Once I started doing that, well, I took it a bit farther and combined some of the best features of a variety of the available options.  I freely admit that this is based on code originally generated by others.  If you’d like my code, I’ll freely give it to you as well.

Features I’ve added:

• Ability to save and load the text associated with the files
• Enhanced color selector.  Default colors as well as any color you want.
• Ability to have the strips butted up together, or spaced out.
• A variety of strip formats
• Ability to put images on individual strips.
• Ability to enter a url pointing to custom images to include.

Isolated Desert Compound Jukebox Title Strip Creator

If you find that there are any features you might want added, let me know and I’d be happy to consider it.

So, I’m not sure what ever prompted me to buy this album.  Undoubtedly, it was one of the DJ’s over on RealPunkRadio.com.  But I felt the need to buy it, so I did.  When it arrived, I was not prepared for it to be factory sealed still.

That would be, Factory sealed since 1987. This record was pristine, a virgin, if you will.  Back in the day I would have ripped the plastic off like a college boy taking the wrapper off a condom.  But this gave me pause.  It’s not that I thought it had any real collectors ‘value’, nor would I really care.  It was just the fact that opening a 27 year old record, just seemed to be a little daunting.

Fortunately for me, A podcast I listen to, Red Red Wine on a Sunday may want to include one of the songs on his podcast.

So, I busted the seal and ripped that vinyl to digital today, and it felt good.  That record had all the musty dankness of a record that had been stored in someones deep dark basement for all of those 27 years.

And yet, it played perfectly.