It seems to be the time for technology changes. While all the cool kids have been purely in an MP3 world for their entire lives, I started collecting CD's in the mid '80s. Between Jan and I, there was a considerable collection. If we still had all of them, storing them would take about 2% of the floor space in our current house.At least six years ago, probably longer, I decided that digital was the wave of the future and started ripping the CD's to .mp3's. Starting with the ones I like and Jan didn't, and with several iterations of "where do we store this music?" we finally have reached the end. As of Sunday every physical CD we had has been ripped, and all 4000 or so tracks now live in Google's cloud.*
Considering the entire process, we've gotten back about 15 cubic feet of space, and eliminated a fair amount of dusting. I think it's a win.
*Don't tell anyone, but there's still a backup copy or two on physical media in the house. I love the cloud, but I just don't, quite, trust it fully yet.
What do you do about all the cover art? Sometimes that's more interesting than the music! I tried scanning some, took too much time. ended up simply cut-n-paste off Amazon for most of it.
ReplyDeleteAlso look at MP3TAG http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html automatically will search for cover art on amazon and lets you manage front/back cover art.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the input. I pretty much wrote off worrying about the cover art. Sometimes google play picks up the cover I'm expecting; frequently they don't. I guess I'm just a barbarian concerning the graphics as long as I can hear the audio :)
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