Monday, January 08, 2007
Erika has found a piano for Annie to practice on, and in order to make the necessary room for it in the dining room, I offered to put all of my CDs that are stored in that same room into storage.
I can do this because I have digitized/MP3s-ized all of our music and I never play the actual CDs anymore. With few exceptions I buy my music online, so its not like I need anything more than a simple box to put everything in. For copyright purposes I am keeping all of the CDs rather than selling them, though I know that the prospect of having the "copyright police" come after me for non-compliance is next to nil, so it's more for me than anything else.
All of my CDs have been ripped at 320kbps and reside on my "music machine" which has also become my iPod station by default. I have everything on that machine backed up on a large portable hard drive. And ever now and then I dump the latest contents onto a backup DVD disc as well and take them off site. This convenience and easy portability of music in this format is so much handier than comparatively bulky CDs (my portable CD player is gathering dust) that I can’t imagine going back at this point.
In the end I managed to fit my old CD collection into four large plastic boxes, and I stuffed them all into a storage area in the basement. I kept a few rare and oddball disks out so that I can scan their covers in order to add them to the MP3 files so that they appear on my iPod/iTunes, but then those few will end up joining the rest.
Erika is planning on using the large wooden CD storage unit for putting our shoes and boots in at the front hall. It was designed to hold 900 CDs comfortably; I guess now we will find out how good a shoe holder it is.
Labels: CDs, iPod, iTunes, MP3, piano
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