music

[curgoth]

I am craving more music in my collection. I have enough music now that I'm looking at "shaping" my collection so that the proportions are the way I want them. It's hard to maintain playlists when I have 3351 tracks. So I typically just leave it on random and skip things I don't feel like listening to. The problem occurs when I get an influx of, say, Tom Waits, and, by sheer volume, shift the mood of what comes up on random. The easiest solution to this would just be to add more music to balance out Tom Waits et al. I want to go and buy several hundred dollars worth of bleepy European EBM and North American Industrial music.

I can't, just now, so I am whining about it instead.

Ah the problems only moody yuppies have.

Comments

[curgoth]

I use free linux software to rip my CDs. I think its possible to get "lame" for windows, even. I have a discman that plays CDs with MP3s on them, which is nice. For a serioud portable player, though, I keep lusting over the 40 GB iPod, since anything smaller wouldn't hold my 25 GB collection.

In any case, though, one can get ripping software for free that will rip at low quality (whether or not it's good enough depends on your speakers and how good your ears are). If you have time to fight with open source software, you might be able to find something that'll do it at an arbitrary quality, even.

[djinnthespazz.livejournal.com]

That's cool. I am actually going to have a Linux box come April. They have an 'installfest' at Penguicon. So. That sounds like a solution, right there.