Ripping Music
Since I bought my new iMac G5 I decided to start several projects. The first project that I embarked on was ripping my entire CD collection onto my hard drive. I like the idea of having a digital copy of all my music and being able to put my whole song library on my iPod.
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One thing that I learned right away was that I needed to make sure each song was specifically named with an album title, artist title, and the whole works. If I didn’t do this, then it is next to impossible to find songs in my iTunes list or on my iPod. I have spent hours upon hours finding information for many of my unlisted songs, just to get them in the right list. I am a little over half way complete with ripping my songs onto my hard drive and so far I have 2084 songs with about 43 more full albums to add. It’s going to be great to have my entire library on my iPod. I don’t have to mess with having CD’s thrown all over my truck getting all scratched up. It’s great. |
Re-Format The PC
Now that I have a back up computer I am re-formatting the hard drive on my PC. It was getting sluggish and almost unberable the last few weeks. It always takes forever to get my PC back into an operational state once I start the formatting process. As always I have ran into several different problems that I have been dealing with just trying to get the software installed. I bought a new graphics card for the computer, but I can’t install the drivers until the operating system is installed. The problem is, the operating system won’t display properly without the drivers to the new video card and thus I am stuck trying to see what to click in a jumbled nasty mess. It took me a while to get through the operating system set up menu, just to get to the point where I could install the display drivers. All is good for now. I am installing program, after program, after program.
A Pile Of Unmarked CDs
The third adventure I have emarked on is trying to organize this nasty pile of CD mess I have. I am really good about making CD’s and not labeling them. I have well over 60 CD’s that have something on them, but no label to tell me what it is. So I am also in the process of looking at each CD, deciding whether to toss it or keep it, and then labeling those I keep.
Needless to say I am keeping myself busy.
I have a similar CD mess. One idea is to put a title and a number on each CD and keep a list of the tracks on a spreadsheet on your computer. Of course, this would be a perfect example of doing as I say, not as I do!
Do much studying my seminary friend lol.
I agree a digital copy of one’s music collection rocks. My iTunes library is up to 5,845 songs or 34.58Gb. I can’t even remember the last time I actually bought a physical music cd. Digital is the way to go. Nice site
“Computers will make our lives easier!” they say.
i too am addicted to the ipod. i just can’t stop myself. i think there’s something cathartic about all of this digital organization. it’s like making lists…. it’s like the one thing in my life i have control of!
I know how you feel, Pressed. My digital music is pretty well organized (other than that some of it needs to be reripped to get along with the iPod), but I have a ton of unmarked CD’s.
BTW, have you considered trying Linux on that poor PC?
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