The attached picture should give you a perspective on the magnitude of the issue I'm trying to deal with. In addition to the 6 cubes, the bottom two shelves and part of the third shelf of the book case on the right are all LPs. What is on the bookshelf plus about one of the cubes is what I haven't yet burned to CD. The four cubes on the left plus one on the right are what I have done so far. I think that puts me at about the 60% mark. The cubes with drawers are CD's and cassettes. The vast majority of the CDs and about half of the cassettes are not in the picture at all. The turntable on the left is what I'm currently using and the HP Digital Entertainment Center is the black box on the opposite side of the TV from the turntable. Yes, that's a 42" LCD monitor in the middle. The Bose surround sound speakers are also visible although the sub and the rear speakers are out of the picture. The PC is my DVD player, CD player, and currently contains about 8200 music tracks. I think some of you guys probably have more music, but I figure I've got thousands more tracks to load from LP and I've barely scratched the surface on the hundreds of cassette tapes (and that is after I pull out the redundant ones.)
I refrain from referring to this as a chore because it is such a treat to pull out an old album that I haven't listened to for several decades and enjoy it while burning it to CD and then getting it uploaded to the PC and have it thereby become vastly more convienient to enjoy into the future. Listening to Poco's Crazy Eyes recently was kind of a jaw dropping experience. I suspect I hadn't listened to it in well over 25 years! My copy was in very crisp condition. Still, the magnitude of what I'm dealing with is a little intimidating. If I could simply average one album a day (which I don't think I could do consistently) I'm looking at multiple years.
I'm also in the market for a good tag editor that can conveniently do search and replace type stuff across the directory structure.
I refrain from referring to this as a chore because it is such a treat to pull out an old album that I haven't listened to for several decades and enjoy it while burning it to CD and then getting it uploaded to the PC and have it thereby become vastly more convienient to enjoy into the future. Listening to Poco's Crazy Eyes recently was kind of a jaw dropping experience. I suspect I hadn't listened to it in well over 25 years! My copy was in very crisp condition. Still, the magnitude of what I'm dealing with is a little intimidating. If I could simply average one album a day (which I don't think I could do consistently) I'm looking at multiple years.
I'm also in the market for a good tag editor that can conveniently do search and replace type stuff across the directory structure.
Getting to the point where smart playlists are really smart is something of a nerd-nightmare but like so many nerdy things, when it's done right it's pretty slick. (Or at least this nerd thinks so!) It's really changing the way I listen to music.
