Figured it was a good time to start my own personal blog, since there are a number of things I wanted to write about that don't fit on MacMojo, or elsewhere.
Lets start off with a music project I'm working on. Rolling stone did a list of the Top 500 Albums of all time in 2003. I agree with just about all their selections, it's a pretty definitive list that spans all of the genres I would care about. Being a huge Beatles fan, I already own a whole bunch of the top 25, and altogether I probably have about 25-30% of the top 100. I think that's far too small of a number, so I'm going to make an effort to get every single one of the top 100 list. As time/money allows, I'll try to get all 500, but that could be long quest. I'm tracking my effort on a spreadsheet (of course) but the only copy of it is on my machine at work, for now. Once I get ahold of that, I can get an actual count.
I had a $20 Amazon gift card, so I took care of a few on the list, picking up #2, 6, and 13: Pet Sounds, What's Going On, and Velvet Underground and Nico. I thought I had Pet Sounds already, but I couldn't find it anywhere. So for the gift card + $10, I knocked a few off the list.
I decided to rip them all using AIFF, for a couple reasons. 1) This is the greatest music ever recorded, so whatever I used had to be lossless. 2) I've been burned a few times by using proprietary lossless formats, so Apple Lossless was right out. AIFF is obviously inefficient, but at least I know I will always be able to access it. I'm going to re-rip any of the other Top 500 albums I already have the same way once I get around to it.
The next 5 albums on my list to get will be a few from artists that I don't own much of yet:#11, 15, 38, 45, and 95: The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley; Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience; The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters; The Band, The Band; and Green River, Creedence Clearwater Revival.
EDIT: I created an amazon list with a few of the top 100 Here
Thanks for reading! More to come on Mac/Microsoft stuff, car parts, music, antiques, and much much more!
4 comments:
What I want to see on this blog is a little chart action so I can better see the opportunity cost of the lunches you forego in your quest to finance this Top 100/500 expedition.
And the first auto parts post...blogging about auto parts is definitely an area of need in the blogosphere. Rock on.
I've been using Google Docs & Spreadsheets a bit and really like it thus far. I can access my files from any computer and can even give rights to other people to modify (or just view) my documents. It'll even import and export from/to xls.
As soon as I finished typing that bit I realized who I was talking to and suggesting a Google alternative to the product they work on for work may not be terribly productive. ;)
Casey: It's cool, I've played around with those too, gotta see what the competition is doing :)
If you want a small, non-proprietary lossless format, I've been using FLAC for two or three years now without issue. From what I understand, it could reduce your storage needs by about 1/3.
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