Just cleared 10,000 tracks!

[watercourse]

For many years, I had an NAS-based collection paired with iTunes or Squeezebox, but neither was close to being sonically satisfying. But it wasn't until after losing my music library due to iTunes' "management" twice, that I decided to take a more active role in music archiving.

 

After trying out Pure Music and Audirvana+, I decided to stick with A+, and have never had computer-based music sound so good. With A+ up to version 2.3.3 and accompanying Remote, the Uptone Regen, and iZotope tweaking, I have gotten much, much more pleasure from this medium. So much so that metadata tagging is actually less of a painful chore, because at the end of all of the tagging efforts is a well-organized library with the all-important artwork. I also appreciate the decreased waste of not needing to burn back-up copies of CDs I rip anymore, now that there is a real motivation to keep up good backup practices.

 

So now, I've rebuilt my entire library and then some. I'm actually at 10,500+ tracks, now that my wife has been actively helping the archiving effort (it's still on me to do the ripping and tagging though). She's even started using the A+ Remote. Not sure why this seems to be a milestone, but it really does feel like a significant moment has been passed!

 

Hope everyone else enjoys their systems as much as we are. Vinyl is still king in our house, but computer audio is catching up quickly.

[CR250]

"I also appreciate the decreased waste of not needing to burn back-up copies of CDs I rip anymore, now that there is a real motivation to keep up good backup practices."

 

Just curious. Why the need to backup CD's you rip if you already own them?

[watercourse]

We've been told that CDs have a finite lifespan.

 

I'm old enough to remember when storage was expensive and plastic media became cheap. And when spinning drives were slow and often had failed sectors.

 

I've sold off a lot of CDs over time.

 

I'm a member of the overredundancy club.