Atlantis in bits

I have a playlist with probably 10 songs in it. But these songs are in my external USB hard disk, instead of my laptop’s hard disk. I plugged in my USB hard disk, and enjoyed this playlist repeatedly. After a while, the USB hard disk was incautiously plugged out and iTunes skipped each song one by one and got into a deadly infinite loop. At that time, my computer had no response at all, and I turned the power off directly.

Fortunately, I was doing nothing on my laptop at that time, and haven’t lost anything. Anyway, I believe iTunes should consider this exception and avoid this infinite loop. And actually, leveraging some flag variables  could fix this.

Last Saturday, I attended a concert (Eastern Elegant Music – Shuang Que, 东方雅韵 – 双阙) performed by some Chinese instruments(erhu and yangqin). It’s my first time to enjoy a concert. And I find the sounds and the effect of those instruments are different with those from CDs or MP3s.

Actually, I planned to attend this concert because I love the sounds of erhu and I love the melodious sounds of most of the bowed instrument. But finally, I found the sounds of yangqin are various and very impressive. The performer even used some fingerings(such as gun fo 滚拂) usually used for guqin to play some glissandi sounds.

Following is a picture of the performing hall. It’s also really beautiful, especially in the picture, .