音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

I've become a foobarian since May 24, 2010.

I was (and still am) a big fan of the media player "JetAudio". But since this afternoon, I officially switched to mainly use another player "foobar2000".

I like JetAudio because it meets almost all my needs of playing media files – it supports for a bunch of formats, it's very customizable for the interface and displaying info areas, and, the most important feature made me loving JA was that it has a nice lyrics viewer, which can display the lyrics tag of a track. I'm also a last.fm user, so to enable autoscrobbling for the player is also important for me. There isn't an official plugin for JA, but JA fans made one. Very good except it doesn't scrobble the album tag. I don't mind this point though. That's why I could use JA till now.

But, JA doesn't support cue index file, which is a pain for me to deal with a lot of lossless files. To be able to read those cue files, I started to use foobar. Before, I only used foobar to convert and batch-tag. I also tried to get foobar work for last.fm, but it didn't work and thus I gave up.

So, how came I switched?
Because I wanted to display my current music in my google talk status field. Unfortunately JA doesn't support it, but there is a plugin of foobar can do it. From this, I started to install more plugins and tried to get foobar more fitted my needs. – As a result, I managed to customize all my needs~ which included: google talk status displaying, go to tray, support last.fm autoscrobbling, and tag-lyrics viewer.

It took some time, but all plugins worked well now!

Before on JA, album tag was missed during scrobbling, now I can finally scrobble with them (I disable it though)! I even do not need to start the last.fm software; I can scrobble directly via foobar! But, I still need JA to do some convert works. Foo can convert from cue to flac, but it's too slow to force me convert into wav via foo first and then convert into flac via JA. Luckily, I can do batch-tagging in foo, so the tagging won't be a pain. Then, the only problem would be the icon. Foobar's icons are … kind of scary for me. It's also easy to change icons, what you need to do is only to replace the icons in its icon folder!

Foobar is open source software, that's why it has so many plugins. Jetaudio has integrated most of good features. Both are nice. So, currently I'll mainly use foobar but I'll still keep JA in my computer. Both of them have their strong points. I need to switch using them to maximize the effect! XDD

Foobar is almost perfect, and JA is probably in the second position.

character: Liselsia Cesarini (Symphonic Rain)

I drew this one in yesterday evening (or this early morning). To be honest, I firstly knew this game was because of Ritsuko Okazaki's album "For RITZ". I liked it a lot. All songs from it are so beautiful. I especially love the song "lyceenne". Yesterday, I tried to sing it, and thus I suddenly wanted to draw a fan art of Liselsia Cesarini, whom the song "lyceenne" was dedicated to.

A few days ago, I finally got the game, I'm in a super SR free playing mode now! XDD

I've mentioned that I tried to sing "lyceenne" yesterday, and I did have a recording of it. I wanted to publish it, but I didn't think I was satisfied by it. So, today, I recorded it again. My voice was sometimes not so stable, but this version is better than the previous one. Also, currently, it's very difficult to record, because... my dear Kosmoton-chan (my vaio laptop) is making noise from its fans -__-|| To record without such interference, I've got to wait for it stopping making noise, and the chance is rare, I think... orz

あるながーい眠りのあとで（約９時間30分ほど）、私はもう一度元気をちゃんととり戻った。訳があんまり分かんないけど、今週はずーっと忙しくて忙しくて過ごしたんだ。そして自分もいつも自分に「あぁ、疲れたっ」とか、「眠りたーいっ」とか呟き続いた。
やっぱり自分のいる国は寒い国なんだね。先週（先々週かも）まで雪がまだまだ降り積もっていたのよ。雪のほうが嫌いじゃないけど、降り続ける雪のおかげで、私は今までまだ「わぁっ、今はもう五月なんかなぁーっ」とカレンダーを見るとすごく驚いた顔をしたの（笑）。
大好きなKOKIAさんのインタビューを翻訳することさえもしたくないほど疲れたの、
です。
でもしょうがないじゃん。自分のボスは出張したので、約二週間もいなかったもん。（汗）
というわけで、あの二週間の時間を十分に利用して、ずっとしたかったKOKIAさんに英語のファンサイトを作る願いを叶った。
あんまり内容がまだまだ弱そうに少ないけどね。^^;

やく一ヶ月前、youtubeにてたくさんの紹介ビデオを見て、CS5しかないの「fill」というフィーチャーを試したかったため、この火曜日、私はただ発売したばかりの「Adobe Master Collection 5」をインストールした。
ただし、私の想像したようにうまく上手に使えなかったのね、はうぅ～ >_<

そして木曜日、ラブミーティングにて、なんとなくみなさんはパソコンにPhotoshopがインストルしたかしないかというトピックにしった。
途中こんな対話になったの。
A：「ライセンスのあるPhotoshopをインストールしたのはたった二台しかないので、他のパソコンにインストールしたかったら、まずこの二つの一つからアンインストールことにならなくちゃ。」
B：「ただあるサイトからクラックヴァージョンをダウンロードすれば？」
A：「だっだ僕はCS5があって、ダウンロードするなど必要はない。」
C：「あぁ、君はすでに入手したの？いいね」
Boss：「ちょっと待って、君たちの行ったCS5って？」
C：「あれはものすごいだよ。新しい"fill"ってフィーチャーで、ひび割れをフィクスしたり、パノラマの空白を補完したり、どんなこともできる。僕たちの実験データを修正するのもできると思う。」
Boss：「はぁ？実験データまでも？」
C：「ええ、例えば君はあるゲルを選択し、その"fill"を利用して、自分のほしいバンドやみたくないバンドも、自分の思うとおりすればいい」
Boss：「むんんんん…次の話題に行こう」
と、ラブミーティングからこんなに妙な雰囲気になったの。面白かったけどね…　^^;

ついに金曜日になって、フライデーと言っても、フリーデーとも言えるのよ（かな？^^;）
夜から、7、8年ぶりの「エンジェリック・コンサート」ってゲームの進級ヴァージョン（？）を手に入れた。
「あぁぁぁぁ、なつかしぃぃぃぃぃぃ」
と、無我夢中になった。
さすが私のプレイした最初のゲーム。
最高ですっ！
堀江由衣さんの声が好き！！（´∀｀;）

夏がだんだん近くなってたの。私、より涼しい壁紙がほしいの。今は前に描いた「虹の電車」という壁紙を使っているので、オレンジの夏の夕方をテーマにしたけど、やっぱり暑いなぁと感じるの。そう言えば…binariaさんの音楽からなにかを描こうね。binariaさんの音楽がいつも夜の静かさを感じさせるように、涼しくて美しいだよ♪

ということでこれが私の夏がくるときに書いていた長っぽいブログエントリなのです。（なかなか日本語で書かなかったので、能力が下がっているのがいやぁ！）

After a long – which was about 9 hours and 30 minutes – sleep, I regained my energy. I didn't know the reason, but this week was so busy. I was like "ah, I'm tired", or "ah, I wanna sleep".
The country I'm in is such a cold country sure enough. Until the last week (or maybe week before last), it was still snowing. I don't dislike snowing, but thanks to the snow, I could show you a surprised face when I looked at the calendar "What? It's May already?!" (laugh)
Yes, I was tired, and I even didn't have the energy to translate my beloved artist: KOKIA's interview.
You see.
But, I couldn't help either. Our boss was out for two weeks before the last week. (sweat)
So, I fully used the time of two weeks, and made my wish came true: an English fansite for KOKIA.
Although it still needs much of content to make it better. ^^;

About one month ago, I watched a lot of videos about Photoshop CS5. I wanted to try the unique "fill" feature, so I installed the just released "Adobe Master Collection 5" on Tuesday.
However, it was not as easy as what I imaged at first. >_<

Then, on Thursday, we got the topic about whether or not our computers have photoshop installed during the lab meeting.
And we got such a conversation.
A: "Only two computers have licensed photoshop; if you want to install PS onto other computers, you've to uninstall from those computers first."
B: "Then can we just download a cracked version somewhere?"
A: "In that case, I have CD5. You need not to download again."
C: "So, you've already got CS5? Nice."
Boss: "Hold on, what's the story about CS5?"
C: "The new CS5 is almost perfect, it has a new feature called 'fill', and you can fix cracks, or fill up the blank for panoramas, or even our experiment data."
Boss: "Your data?"
C: "Yeah, you choose a region of your gel, and you can get the bands you want and delete those you don't want."
Boss: "Hmmmm…. Well, next topic"
Like this, what an ambience at that time. Although it was interesting… ^^;

Finally, it was Friday. We call it "Friday", but I think it's okay if we call it "free day" (no? ^^;)
In the evening, I got the upgraded (?) version of PC game "ANGELIC CONCERT", which I used to play a lot 7 or 8 years ago.
"Waaaahhh, so nastalgiiiiiiiic."
So, I was absorbed completely.
My first game.
It's THE BEST!
And I like Yui Horie's voice!!（´∀｀;）

Since summer is coming, I want a cooler wallpaper. Currently, I'm using the wallpapaer "Niji no densha / rainbow train" which I draw before. Although this one has the core of an orange summer evening… I feel a bit hot for this. Well… this time, let me try to draw something with the ambience of binaria's music. Their music always gives me the feeling of a silent night, cool and beautiful ♪

Here, I've written this a bit long blog entry at the time when summer comes. (oh, noes, I haven't written in Japanese for a long time, wish my ability to write in Japanese won't decrease!)