As big of a music fan as I am, I’m horrible at using the “features” of iTunes.
I use it to rip music, and store it. Between Christine and I, we’ve got just over 80 gigs of music, which is all digital now. (I’m sure there’s plenty more CDs I opted not to rip, when I [...]
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Ripping More Music
So I splayed out all the CDs we own on my desk, and have been dropping them in my CD burner, as I’ve sat at my desk watching movies on my computer.
I learned a valuable lesson: Windows Media Player rips music much easier than iTunes.
With iTunes, you have to drop the CD in, wait for [...]
Finished!
Finally! It certainly helped having the conversion application running on the better computer. Now that all the music’s in one directory, it’s easy to see how many duplicates of some tracks we had.
I whittled it down from roughly 18 thousand songs to just over 10. Talk about a lot of doubles?
Now [...]
Still Converting Music
I think the problem is that I was using the “old” PC to do the converting, and not my new workhorse machine.
I installed the conversion software on my better computer, and things are speeding up much faster. A song on the new computer takes roughly 15 seconds to convert, versus a minute and a [...]
Moving from iTunes to Windows Media
I thought it would be easy, and quick to leave iTunes. I just wanted to break up, and start my new relationship with Windows Media Player/Center. Why? Easy.
When we moved into our new place, there was no room in the living room for the “Media PC”, to be hooked up to the stereo [...]

