posted 2005/07/13 at 20:50
Quick note to Christina and Milena: Your package is now fully wrapped up, and now it's just a matter of me getting to the post office to get it sent out. I'm guessing you'll probably receive it sometime early next week.
Anyway, after playing around with Launchcast for a while, I decided to go ahead and rip all of my new age CDs to my computer. I was surprised at how few CDs I have at this point; most of my new age phase when I was younger came when I could still only play cassettes, so I still have a lot of stuff I should move over to CD at some point. (As it is, the cassettes are in one of those boxes of my stuff that should have been delivered to my room after we moved back into the house, but somehow got sent to our detached garage instead.)
After not a small amount of time spent correcting an incredible number of misspellings in the Internet-supplied track information (seriously, does anyone even bother double-checking this stuff), as well as adding some custom tags (such as all the tracks that are piano solos), I've been messing around with jukeboxing stuff on my computer, and I guess it's okay. I'm mostly using the MP3s for background music while I do other stuff, and when I'm doing that I don't notice the lack of high-end and low-end sound on the tracks quite so much. From my computer speakers it doesn't make much difference, but there's still a world of difference between an MP3 coming out of my computer and a CD coming out of my stereo.
I'm not in the market for a portable MP3 player quite yet (ask me again after I'm back in school and collecting paycheques once more), but I guess I could see myself picking one up for listening to music while I'm at my office at school and such. I still refuse to buy anything from Apple, though.
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