Nothing funny about feldspar

I think I mentioned once that the drive that holds our entire music library had a meltdown. This was more than a year ago (maybe even two?), but I haven’t really been paying too much attention to the music collection here at the Rock Pile for even longer than that.

Now that I have this iMac with a 250GB drive, though, I’ve been rethinking our local music situation — and realizing that we have a lot of CDs that I haven’t heard in far too long.

Part of this is influenced by a local station we listen to when we’re working on Mom’s house. It proudly proclaims that it’s “not ClearChannel” — it plays the music of my later youth, with new stuff and local stuff mixed in, so it’s not just all Nirvana all the time.

Anyway, I’ve spent Way Too Long importing stuff from my laptop and getting it just right (what with this newfangled artwork thingy there is there in the corner of iTunes), and then loading in 15 CDs and getting them just right… At this rate, I’ll lose this drive before I get everything imported.

‘Cause you know, you can’t just use the data that CDDB gives you for the tags. Things might be spelled or capitalized wrong, or the other person missed an accented character, or you just don’t like how they handled the various artists thingy. And then there’s the problem of artwork. We’ve got a pretty eclectic bunch of cds (at least these first 15), and not all of them are on iTunes, so I’ve got to go elsewhere to find images. Amazon (not unexpectedly) is a pretty good source, but even they don’t have everything. So I’m stuck trying to get anything other than the default black box with 8th notes on it.

If I had the scanner nearby, I’d probably scan the cover, but that would be a bit nerdy, don’t you think?