my years of collecting free (or near free music) have come back to bite me. Despite getting an IPod as a Christmas present (thank you Tim) I have still not listened to one song on it. The reason.... well, it turns out that building an iTunes library with illegal material is not that easy.
Most songs are missing some part of their metadata tags (labels which tell iTunes song title, artist & album). If anyone has ever tried re-labelling 3000+ individual songs, this little program: http://www.mediamonkey.com/ (thank you Michael) will let you do it a weekend instead of a week.
Then, once you realise that many of your files are ccd's and not mp3's/mp4's, this program will let you convert them into a format iTunes can recognise (http://www.nch.com.au/switch/mp3.html?gclid=CMy-qJeAoZgCFShRagodbD3oYw). This should nicely take care of another weekend.
Once you've done that, you can try loading up your CD library. Ofcourse, if most of your CDs were purchased in Asia, in about 50% of cases this involves repeating steps 1 & 2 above. I have calculated that each CD takes me at least 15 min, what with all the copying, converting and re-labelling. Best guess I have about 200 CDs = 200 * 15 / 60 = 50 HOURS!!!!!
You can see why I had to write a blog entry about this.
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This sort of strikes a chord since we used to have iTunes at home... As soon as that became my choice, I have Winamp for the PC, and a Sony Walkman to take my music with me :-) Highly recommended device btw!
but I can't take all my cd's with me!
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