CD Archiving 4: Adventures In Modern Mass Storage
An essential part of my CD archiving adventure is not only having sufficient disk space to store the FLAC and MP3 files, but also enough space on a separate drive to store backups of them. Heaven forbid I should lose all the files in a hard drive crash and have to start all over [...]
CD Archiving 3: The Write Tools
This series could go on forever, so I figure I should list up front the process and tools I’m using. That way, if anyone wants to jump in and emulate what I’m doing, this can be used as the go-to guide. I’ll go into the details in subsequent entries. And boy, there [...]
CD Archiving 2: Flac Racket
In part 1 of this series, I posed the question of what to do about archiving my CD collection to my PC if I wasn’t going to use the MP3 format? That wasn’t strictly the right question, since my desired target solution still involved MP3s as part of the equation. There’s two issues [...]
Channeling Inappropriate Content
I’m taking a break from my very exciting CD Archiving series to bring you this special Pet Peeve of the Day: The television sets at the local fitness center that I frequent.
First of all, on any given day, a few of them will be off/out of order. Currently 2 of out 10 are completely [...]
CD Archiving 1: It Helps To Become Obsessed
In the previous post, I talked about how I’m no longer buying CDs and just sticking to digital downloads. But what about the 4100+ CDs I already own? What am I going to do about those? That gets to the heart of the matter of my latest passion and one reason why [...]
Across The Digital Divide
I haven’t bought any CDs this year. Well, that’s not strictly true. I did buy a DVD that came with a bonus CD, but that’s it for physical music media. I don’t think I’m going to buy a regular CD ever again. With 4100+ CDs I don’t have room for many [...]
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