This page is about my Music Collection.

I mostly listen to my music via my computer, and also via Google Music either in a browser or from my phone. It’s all the same music, whatever I rip from CD’s or any other sound media I obtain.

Google Music is a great service which you can use with your own music, up to 20,000 songs uploaded for free. (I have a ton of music and am nowhere near to that limit) There is also an Unlimited service you can subscribe to, listen to anything THEY have. I like to keep it within my actual discovery cycles, whatever I have physically bought, I listen to.

I use Last.fm to scrobble all my listen to. (Why? It’s fun, stats are fun!)

I collect CD’s and other media formats, mostly CD’s though.

I have a “Vinyl” page which I created awhile back, and this page will be about my CD’s and other digital content.

I have a Creative SoundBlaster Audigy2 Plantinum system, and have my Pioneer receiver and Pioneer Double Cassette Deck and Sony Turntable hooked up ot it.

This section is about current projects in converting analog to digital:

I don’t have many purchased cassette tapes. I bought vinyl only in my teens, then got a few tapes, then got a CD player and stopped getting anything but CD, until recently when I started to get vinyl records again, here and there.

Guardian “First Watch” 1989 analog Cassette Tape:
“ripped” each track to my computer and now can enjoy whichever track I want to via my computer.

Hector Berlioz “Symphonie Fantastique” (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, conductor) 1988 analog Cassette Tape:
“ripped” the entire symphony to my computer, and now can listen to either of the 5 parts whenever I wish on my computer.

Jude Cole “A View from 3rd Street” analog Cassette Tape:
“ripped” side-one to my computer, and can listen to it if I feel like it.

The Black Crowes “Shake Your Money Maker” analog Cassette Tape:
ripped side-one to my computer, and can listen to it when I want to easily. (note: Feb. 12, 2008: Recently deleted these tracks since I bought the CD at CD Warehouse [used, of course].)

I have some tapes that I recorded from the radio in the 1980’s which I might rip a few things off of some of them. —

I have some tapes from church services that I sang at, solo, duet, small group, and college group … I have started playing around with these, but they are more difficult, take actual “production” time in getting them to sound better, and they weren’t “professionally recorded” at all in the first place.

This section is about projects converting vinyl to digital:

I have gotten several artists albums on my computer to date, some in full, some in part, and will probably delete many of these and re-do them now that I have more experience in doing these conversions. 🙂

A few Wham tracks.
Half of two Dokken albums, each respectively
6 Bad English tracks
6 Big Pig tracks
3 Heart tracks
3 Kix tracks
2 Mr. Mister tracks
4 Sting tracks

… that’s all so far. It’s been awhile since I did them. I have many records to go through, I really need a new hard drive before continuing on in converting all my vinyl to digital.

I actually .. to date .. 8-2006 .. have ripped more vinyl than above to my computer hard drive, but I didn’t write it down, not that it’s much, notably missing though are my The Cult records, which I don’t have fully ripped, but partially. I really want to get this done, but still don’t have a new hard drive. FWIW