This weekend, I finally finished ripping all the CDs in our library to MP3 format. This is both for insurance, in case anything happens to the CDs, and for convenience so I can play all my music on my computers. The next project is to get the ID3 tags set up properly so that I can do better genre sorting and neat things in iTunes, and then back everything up to a few DVDs. Here are some interesting statistics:
- 3531 Total songs
- 18.34 Gigabytes of diskspace
- 10.8 Days of playtime
- (10 days, 21 hours, 6 minutes, 54 seconds)
- 25 Genres
- 920 Artists
- 447 Albums
That is probably 98% of all our CDs represented there. There were a few odd CDs that I didn’t rip (bagpipe music, bill cosby CDs, etc) and on a few soundtracks I didn’t rip all the songs – but on almost every CD I took everything. Now my iPod shuffle should actually have the ability to suprise me by pulling up stuff I’m not expecting.
Why didn’t you use Ogg Vorbis? MP3 is kind of obsolete now, if you think about it, and because of patents support for it is going to go away… Vorbis:MP3::PNG:GIF. Just my $0.02
“MP3 is kind of obsolete”?
Really?
Seriously?
Man, someone should tell all those MP3 player manufacturers.
I plan on doing something similar when I get my mythical “new computer.” I can’t wait to see how many months of music I have on CD :D