January 9, 2006
Awesome but slightly depressing...
One of the things I've been doing recently is encoding our entire CD collection to MP3 (well, actually AAC). This has taken a long time (a few weeks, on and off) but is now almost complete.
It really is very very cool to have your entire CD and song collection available on your computer (a mac in this case) so you can listen to whatever you want whenever you want without having to fiddle around both finding the CD in the collection then getting the CD out.
However, I just cannot be the only person who finds it slightly depressing to see their entire collection - lovingly bought over several years and consisting of over 500 CDs and currently taking up an entire cabinet that is around 3½ feet tall by about 2 feet wide - compressed into half a 60GB iPod!
I love technology but this is truly amazing. At the bit-rate I encode (192 AAC VBR) the entire collection is slightly less than 30GB and can fit into my pocket and I really cannot tell the difference between the original CD and the encoded version.
Amazing to think that even a few years ago the technology to do this would have been almost unthinkable then along came MP3s and now AAC. I tend to ignore WMA simply because it is a proprietary format and MP3 and AAC are not.
On another note, I know I haven't blogged much (and believe me, I get constant ribbing from SWMBO about it). Perhaps this year I'll find things to blog about - you never know! :-)
I would love to do this too...Maybe I should take a break from Blogging and get on with it...or not...
And yes I would find it deeply depressing to see my collection crammed onto an iPod. I love my CD's - the packaging, the photos, the little freebies that came with them. I still can't bring myself to buy music online for that very reason!
Posted by: Gavin Kagan at January 12, 2006 7:33 AM