Brought to you by the letter F
At the same time recently when we drove home with our new (used) van, we also stopped by the AT&T store to upgrade our phones. I'd been secretly lusting after the iPhone for well over a year, but I wasn't in a hurry and wanted to wait until after the first iteration of them. I finally could stand it no longer and the $99 price for the 3G got me hyped up about getting one. So, now I can say we've finally entered the 21st Century! Yay! I've totally jumped in with both feet, but Danny's still dubious about his but is slowly coming along. We opted for the 3G, since the improvements on the 3GS didn't sound worth the extra $100... until Mal-Wart decided to drop the price of theirs, a week after we got our 3G models. D'OH!
So anyway, I'd had many of my compact discs ripped to high quality MP3s (LAME, VBR), but now I've found iTunes to be a great, user-friendly (although not completely perfect) music organization tool. I've started a new project now: high quality "iTunes Plus" files (256 kbps VBR AAC, actually M4A) are sounding better to me than MP3s, so I'm systematically re-ripping pretty much all of my collection to that format. The process has gotten me heavily back into music since I'm being forced to revisit many old artists and albums I hadn't listened to in man years, and I'm seeing many holes in my collection I'd like to address.
Anyway, so from a combination of sources, since my last LJ posting, I've acquired these albums, all of them used:
ABBA, Gold: Greatest Hits
Aerosmith, O, Yeah!: Ultimate Aerosmith Hits
Duran Duran, Greatest
Joan Jett, The Hit List
Billy Joel, Greatest Hits Volume III
Marillion, Script for a Jester's Tear (remastered 2-disc)
Richard Marx, Richard Marx
Porcupine Tree, Signify (original Ark21 release)
R.E.M., Eponymous
The Rolling Stones, Voodoo Lounge
Santana, The Best of Santana
Soft Cell, The Very Best of Soft Cell
Starship, Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979-1991)
Van Halen, Live: Right Here, Right Now
... and I bought the boxed set of the new Edsel label 2-disc remasters of Thompson Twins' early classic catalogue: A Product of... Participation/Set, Quick Step & Side Kick, Into the Gap, and Here's to Future Days. The latter has always been a personal favorite.
So far in ripping, I've only completed up to the letter F. This is going to take a while, methinks.
So anyway, I'd had many of my compact discs ripped to high quality MP3s (LAME, VBR), but now I've found iTunes to be a great, user-friendly (although not completely perfect) music organization tool. I've started a new project now: high quality "iTunes Plus" files (256 kbps VBR AAC, actually M4A) are sounding better to me than MP3s, so I'm systematically re-ripping pretty much all of my collection to that format. The process has gotten me heavily back into music since I'm being forced to revisit many old artists and albums I hadn't listened to in man years, and I'm seeing many holes in my collection I'd like to address.
Anyway, so from a combination of sources, since my last LJ posting, I've acquired these albums, all of them used:
ABBA, Gold: Greatest Hits
Aerosmith, O, Yeah!: Ultimate Aerosmith Hits
Duran Duran, Greatest
Joan Jett, The Hit List
Billy Joel, Greatest Hits Volume III
Marillion, Script for a Jester's Tear (remastered 2-disc)
Richard Marx, Richard Marx
Porcupine Tree, Signify (original Ark21 release)
R.E.M., Eponymous
The Rolling Stones, Voodoo Lounge
Santana, The Best of Santana
Soft Cell, The Very Best of Soft Cell
Starship, Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979-1991)
Van Halen, Live: Right Here, Right Now
... and I bought the boxed set of the new Edsel label 2-disc remasters of Thompson Twins' early classic catalogue: A Product of... Participation/Set, Quick Step & Side Kick, Into the Gap, and Here's to Future Days. The latter has always been a personal favorite.
So far in ripping, I've only completed up to the letter F. This is going to take a while, methinks.