A lot of hard work! Here’s just a small sampling of the work I’ve been doing the past week:
This is only one of THREE boxes of CD’s I’m ripping at the moment!
I’ve been ripping CD’s and collecting MP3’s since 1997 -nearly the origin of the file format! Back then, we had to use 3 computers to rip a CD. One for converting the CD to individual WAV files, One that ran encoding the WAV’s to MP3, and one where you sat and renamed all the files to the proper format! Now all that is done automatically (and pretty fast might I say). I started with my own collection and have now started exchanging hard drives and CD collections with friends and acquaintances for quite a few years now. Napster, Kazaa, Suprnova.org, ect? They all take too long and aren’t that reliable for quality of consistency of product. I won’t deny using them all at one time or another for the rare or hard-to-find track that is out of print though! I’m presently working on developing a better file storage system. This will probably be the main project of 2005: develop a 2+TB RAID storage system with room to grow. Wish me luck!