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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Organizing My Music Collection

I've been spending a good bit of time lately working on organizing my massive mp3 collection. When I started the project I had ~200 GB of music (which equates to about 4,800 hours or 200 days worth) spread across multiple machines, sitting on unripped CDs, archived out on burned data CDs, etc. I've made a ton of progress, consolidating most of the music onto one external Iomega 160GB USB drive , making sure it is all tagged (using MusicMatch's tagging tools) and filing it all based on artist and album name. MusicBrainz and CDDB have also been handy tools along the way for identifying files that were untagged or misnamed previously.

I'm in the S's now (a band called The Soft Boys to be exact) with ~25GB left to go, so I'm finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's been a lot of work, so I may have to get myself a Sonos Digital Music System to celebrate when I'm finally done :-)

posted by Jamie at 11:29 PM