All Aboard The Mustastic Bus!

I have officially started the onerous task of re-organizing my music catalogue.

You see, I recently promised two good friends of mine that they could touch my stuff, specifically my treasure trove of Doctor Who related audiobooks and plays. I made the promise of copying said plays and books onto mp3 CD's for their download and enjoyment.

Letting people touch my stuff isn't something I do very often. Normally, I share with my brother who's spindles of music and audiobooks already is mighty beyond reproach. I feel bad because he usually has more to share than I do, but a lot of that was because I simply didn't have the tools I needed to manage a large music library.

I figured that with my new computer, I can finally get around to managing a large music library. I figured that if I'm going to let people touch my stuff, I'd better clean house first.

Like staring down into one's best nightmare.

Years of files stored on the ol' Mac, unmarked cd's, the black hole I call a filing system was coming back to haunt me big time. I was in for hours upon hours of fun.

I will say this: Thank deus for iTunes. Even on a PeeCee, iTunes manages my library with the greatest of ease. WinAmp, WMP and all the rest can go into a field and sit on it. Compared to iTunes, the rest are flies to be swatted by this music software juggernaut.

I'm not kidding. It would re-organize the library and the folders in which the music is stored as I corrected misnamed song/speech files, fixed artist names, restored album names, sorted by genre. It was like the first time you ate your favourite flavour of ice cream. Like the first time you tied your shoes all by yourself. Like the first time you... You get what I mean.

The task ahead is to import the cd's and reorganize those, consolidate and remove duplicates and finally make sure everything conforms to a unified standard before burning the ever important discs to share.

And that is what will occupy me for those times when I'm not busy. Heh. Yeaaaah, it's going to take a while.

In the meantime, yaaaaay, iTunes!