Re-doing your music library
So y’all can live in a world of digital music, but we prefer the physical object. However, I’m more open to digital than Dylan and I have terrible ‘ears’ so I’m content listening to iTunes off my little laptop speakers. However I had a hard drive crash and lost everything (yes, everything, which actually caused me to cry on Friday). Anyways, I’m starting iTunes afresh (not everything was on my iPod) and here are the first CD’s to make it on (actually there is a big pile, but here are some of them:
- Julie London, “Cry me a River” and a few others from her greatest hits.
- 50 Cent, The Massacre, with the aforementioned “Candy Shop.”
- Caetano Veloso, Noites do Norte.
- Fiona Apple, Extarordinary Machine.
- The Hold Steady, Separation Sunday.
- John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, with “My One and Only Love” featured in Dylan’s and my wedding 10.5 years ago.
- The Band, Prince, John Prine, R. Kelly, Sufjan Stevens, Ali Hassan Kuban, Ben Webster, Fela Kuti, etc,
Now I have to go find more. What I listen to in the office is different than at the gym or out on the greenway. When I work out it’s almost all hip-hop.
on April 9th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Here I am burning Ella Fitzgerald, and I forgot about Tom Waits. Lots and lots of Tom Waits. All our Loudon Wainwright III is on LP, but my favorite song is on The Squid and the Whale soundtrack, which is a great all around CD. (Any soundtrack with The Cars has to be, right?). And Damian (Jr. Gong) Marley has a great newish album, with two horrible songs (the lyrics), so that’s going on - minus the two offenders. Ok, enough, I need sleep.
on April 9th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
I had this happen to me twice. And it made me cry both times. I hear they have these things called external hard drives to help with this situation. Maybe someday I’ll get one.
By the way, I don’t know you, Nina, but Dylan used to work with our kids at OLP. If he ever wanted to know what was up with them nowadays, you could check out the blog I just started.
on April 10th, 2006 at 8:42 am
Thanks, I did get one, but now have to figure out how to use it in a practical manner.
on April 11th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
If you incode your music as AIFF files, there’s no quality loss, no file compression, so it’s the same as a cd. Bose has a new system out in which you insert your cds, and a large hard drive copies and stores your music, compression free. But it only holds 300 cds-worth of songs. If I had a big enough hard drive to store all my music compression-free, I would sell my cds, but I have at least 1000 cds. I don’t really have an attachment to the physical object, but I would definitrely cry if I lost my music collection, the actual music. I’m sorry that happened to you, Nina. I also posted to Dylan’s CD filing blog. I strongly believe in filing A to Z. I don’t do genres.