Victory! I have dispatched the task at hand...

[Morbyd]

Hello party people! Some might remember a post I did about 3 weeks ago about my fancy new setup whereby I hooked my computer into my stereo (not rocket science, I know). On that day, I began the process of ripping every CD I own into MP3s, both for use to play loud and, secondarily but no less importantly, for use on the old iPod.

After 3 weeks of spending every free moment at home on evenings and weekends shoving discs into 2 computers simultaneously, and dragging 30 CDs with me to work each day to make good use of my company computer's CD-ROM drive during the daylight hours, the task is COMPLETE!

The stats:
1 iPod mini (used as a hard drive to shuttle files home from work)
2 tired eyes
3 computers
3 missing discs from double albums
3 albums missing completely
12 albums with a song or two that wouldn't rip. Tracking down those missing tunes with the aid of Soulseek
21 days
62 megabytes
160 kbps (I'd have a higher-quality setting, but I'm half deaf anyway and can't tell the difference, plus it saved space)
841 titles
954 discs (damn those double albums! and did the Cure really need a 4-disc B-sides set?)

1 happy camper

I celebrated by going out and picking up 10 new albums today (and yes, I've already ripped them) and ordering 6 more on Amazon 8)

Sorry.. I had to share with someone, and since you're all music lovin' folks I thought you'd understand.

 

[Barbie]

Err I don't understand hardly any of that Morbyd but it sounds impressive

My mum and dad bought me an ipod this wkend and I've put about 10 cds on it today and I was feeling really proud of myself for embracing technology but you've just gone and pissed on my fire

 

[Morbyd]

My mum and dad bought me an ipod this wkend and I've put about 10 cds on it today and I was feeling really proud of myself for embracing technology but you've just gone and pissed on my fire

Embracing the technology is fun... as is peeing in inappropriate places like your fire

I went through all this mainly so that I could just push a button or two on the computer and listen to any song I wanted on the stereo (rather than looking for the CD, loading it in the player, etc... I'm a lazy bum). Nevertheless, the ability to quickly load up any album I want on the iPod with one foot out the door is also appealing. 8)

 

[Mark Sun]

I assume you mean 62 gb?? That's still not a lot of space for 900 odd discs! What did you encode them at?

 

[Morbyd]

I assume you mean 62 gb?? That's still not a lot of space for 900 odd discs! What did you encode them at?

Oops That should be gigabytes, of course...

I encoded them 160. I know they say 192 or higher is better, but I was worried about the space it would all take up (turned out to not be too bad after all). Sounded good over the stereo today.