iTunes

iTunes tells me I have 1247 songs which is 3.5 days worth of music and takes up 4.66gb worth of music. Having almost all my cd's on my pc at work and mac at home has led me to rediscover my music. I'm listening to cd's I have ignored for years and I've even started to purchase some new music again. The record companies will be glad to hear that I'm sure.

When I was entering the cd's to the iTunes collection I was impressed by the ease of it all. I'd previously used a great little media player, zinf. But with iTunes it's just easier as ripping, burning and sorting are all easy and built in. The other thing that struck me as I ripped all my music into iTunes was that the bulk of my music was from the early to mid nineties. After 1997 I just bought fewer and fewer cd's. This was also the time I met my wife so I clearly had other things to occupy me.

Also I ripped all the music in the Apple AAC format - I hope that decision doesn't come back to bite me. When I'd been using zinf I used the ogg vorbis codec as it is better quality than mp3. Good as it is iTunes doesn't know a ogg vorbis file from a plate of ham and eggs, so I had to rerip quite a few cd's.

So now I'm listening to more music (albeit quietly at work) and enjoying it more. Now all I have to do is convince my wife we really really need and iPod...