Music

[beowabbit]

A couple of months ago, I bought a large hard drive to put my music on. (This is all music that I legitimately own, by the way — a little of it is stuff I downloaded from pay sites or from artists who make their stuff available for free, but the vast majority is oggs I've converted from my own CDs, 'cause it's a lot more convenient to listen to them that way — I can listen on my iPAQ on the way to the T, for instance.)

Anyway, just a couple days after I moved all my music to it, it died. Horribly. And of course, I didn't have any backups, because (1) the files were so large, and (2) they weren't irreplaceable; I could re-rip from CD. Let us say I have learned that that was a mistake. :-) Yes, I can re-rip the music from CD, but it sure takes a long time.

The process of systematically going through (a major chunk of) my music collection in a fairly short period of time has been kind of interesting. Of course, I don't actually listen to everything as I rip it, but I listen to some of it, especially the stuff I haven't heard in a while. Usually I just don't think to have music on when I'm on the computer, but of course lately I've been constantly reminded, so I've had a pretty constant sound track lately, which is nice. I need to remember how much good music affects my mood.

As I mention, I've gotten through the stuff I'd already converted, but I was on a roll, so I'm continuing with stuff I didn't have on disk (as opposed to disc) yet. Much of that is CDs of my father's that I took after he died, and much of that I haven't actually listened to yet, so it's a good opportunity to get exposed to new music. It's almost all jazz, with some (Western) classical. He had about twelve shelf-feet of classical, and that was 5% of his CDs. The other 95% was jazz. I only took a fraction of it, but I tried to get a representative sample.

(LiveJournal is great for boring people with random trivia, isn't it? :-)

Comments

[missdimple.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was boring at all. :)

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

Almost all the music I've got on my hard drive is stuff I bought and paid for, too. It's nice to have it available in random order across a couple of hundred files, but I *like* the fact that artists got money from me for it.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Twelve shelf-feet of classical? Egad! I am so envious.

[beowabbit]

Yeah, it was impressive. I probably took about half of that. (I took a much smaller fraction of his jazz, just because there was so stunningly much of it. Also, my sister likes jazz more than classical.) And before I came over to the Boggle tournament today I was listening to some of it as I walked around the pond (Rostropovich playing Bach's cello suites — it went very well with a mellow walk around the pond checking out the waterbirds and dogs).