Technologic

[candidgamera]

I've been digitizing my music collection. It's not a very big collection, so I've only been working on it since Monday, and will probably finish this evening. Good thing, too - I have at least two CDs that have nontrivial physical defects that are interfering with playback. By going digital, I can reduce wear and tear.

I'm also working to organize and condense the mp3 collection while I'm at it. I have duplicates of several songs - the current record holders are Sephiroth's theme from Final Fantasy 7 (AKA One-Winged Angel) at four copies (now reduced to one) and Particle Man by They Might Be Giants, also at four copies (reduced to three, because it's on three different albums I own).

I have been uniformly impressed by Windows Media Player's ability to identify a CD as it is being ripped. Only one or two had to be manually identified, and the automatic identification took anywhere from as long as two minutes to as little as fifteen seconds. Considering the size of the database it has to be hitting to do that - that's pretty damn good.

I assume some of my LJ-homies use iTunes - do they sell mp3's, or are they using Apple's proprietary sound file format, still? I may want to legitimize some of the older tunes I acquired during my college years, but only if I can get them DRM free.

Comments

[eemick2.livejournal.com]

iTunes music files haven't had DRM in ages, as others noted, and they're still $.99. There was a brief period where the DRM-free version was more expensive, but nowadays they're all under a buck.

That said, it is still AAC. WMP CAN play AAC, but if you don't have an iPod then I'd recommend looking on Amazon first, and only look in the ITMS if you can't find it elsewhere.

[candidgamera.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan.