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Friday, January 21, 2011

The Great CD Migration

Now that both Becky and I have iPods, the time has come to get our entire music collection ripped to mp3 format and available to us. This is no small task. I have years worth of digital music files in various formats, as well as hundreds of cds to convert over. It has been a bit of a challenge trying to figure out the whole synching my library thing. How do Becky and I share the same music without having to share the same iTunes account, stuff like that. I'm sure I haven't got it completely figured out, but I'm starting.

I have most of my digital files converted to mp3 now. Some have DRM I can no longer use, licenses that are long gone, etc. So I'll have to repurchase some of my songs (which really irritates me).

I'm also noticing that when I rip songs from a cd, the song info attached to the file isn't always complete or accurate, so I have to spend time fixing all that so the songs will list properly in iTunes. That's a real pain.

But soon we'll have a glorious ginormous digital music collection that we'll be able to enjoy.

In the meantime, I picked up Darksiders and Uncharted 2. If I can tear myself away from World of Warcraft for a while, I might even play them.

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