Recently, I stumbled upon a few CDs I haven't listened to in quite some time, so I decided to rip them onto my new computer. My eyes nearly bugged out of their sockets when I noticed iTunes ripping and encoding at about 28x speed; it finished the CD in just a few minutes. So I popped in another CD, and another, then another. And so on.
At some point, I started walking around the house looking for the random stashes of CDs we had laying around, brought them all back to my computer, and kept ripping. I think I added about 30 CDs last night, and there's a lot more to go.
On the VERY bad side, I had a couple of nearly full 100x CD binders that I can not for the life of me find. It has literally been years since I've seen them. Some day I may stumble upon them and rip them too, but I'm not optimistic. :-(
On the good side, I'll have an opportunity to reconnect with a lot of music I haven't listened to in literally a decade in some cases.
On the bad side, this may slow down my adoption of new music, which is something I've been trying to get better about. Who knows. We'll see when we pick songs for the next episode.
...which we should be doing soon now! Hmm. Mayhaps I should email the guys and see when they're available. :-)
UPDATE: 10:32am (Pacific)
WHAT THE FUCK?!
One of those caches of CDs I mentioned is at my office (where I am now; don't tell my boss I'm posting, ok? ;-) Lots of good stuff: Disburbed, NIN, some DefCon trance mix CDs,. I opened some jewel cases up and noticed that a bunch of the disks are missing.
I know _I_ sure as hell didn't lend the CDs out to anyone without the jewel cases. Where the hell did they go?! The class-ist in me wants to say "Those damn cleaning people!" but I have nothing to suggest that other than the fact that I trust my coworkers not to pull something as lame as this...
DAMNIT!
Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth.
Orbital - In Sides
Korn - See You On The Other Side
Disturbed - The Sickness
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (I LOVE THIS ALBUM!)
Godsmack - Awake (which I could honestly live without.)
*sigh*
At least I have these CDs already ripped at work so I can just copy them. But still, this pisses me off. Anyway. I should really get to work now.