The Great CD Import of Spring 2009
About a week into my project of importing all of my music into Apple lossless, this this is how much I have gotten done.
That’s about 200 CDs, which is a bit over 70 GB. The problem is, those are just the random CDs that were stacked next to my desk. I have about 3,000 or so more in storage in my basement.
Setting up a dedicated machine and hard drive to do this has helped. I have the MacBook sitting on the side of my desk, and I’m basically just loading discs into it all day (there is no doubt the disc drive has gotten more work in the past week than during the entire life of the machine). Setting iTunes to automatically start importing when a CD is inserted is a big help. I don’t need to even touch the keyboard. Just pop the disc in and it imports, and them ejects it when it’s done.
Still, 200 down, 3,000 to go. I’m clearly going to need to start being more selective about what I import. The idea is to keep anything that there is a remote chance I may want to listen to or reference at some point in the future, but that should still leave a decent chunk of stuff that doesn’t fall within those perimeters.
The idea is that when it’s all done, the music will live on one drive, and be backed up to the Drobo as well. After that’s all done, at some point I’ll have to tackle how it integrates with my primary iTunes library. Right now it’s separate, and I want to keep it that way for now. Wish me luck, I’m curious if and when I’ll finally finish this all.
