Comments on: complete mp3 conversion http://capnstv.blog.friendster.com/2005/04/complete-mp3-conversion/ Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Kevin http://capnstv.blog.friendster.com/2005/04/complete-mp3-conversion/#comment-3 Kevin Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:44:35 +0000 http://capnstv.blog.friendster.com/2005/04/complete-mp3-conversion/#comment-3 Hey...welcome to the blogosphere. As a capo for the blog-grammar police, it's my duty to point out that the "blog" is the whole operation, while each individual post is a "post" or "entry." (Pretty irritating, huh?) My feeling is, as long as you back up your iTunes mp3s on an external hard drive, you should be ok should iPod act funky. There's also quite a bit of free software at <a href="http://www.ipodlounge.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipodlounge.com/</a> to download music from an iPod to a PC or Mac. I used SharePod once and it worked swimmingly. At this point, I'm thinking of even selling back the albums I like -- most of the liner notes, lyrics, etc. have been re-posted online. I'll admit, tho', that I only feel this way about music. If I could download my DVDs to some large computer database, I'd probably still keep all their special edition packaging. Hey…welcome to the blogosphere. As a capo for the blog-grammar police, it’s my duty to point out that the “blog” is the whole operation, while each individual post is a “post” or “entry.” (Pretty irritating, huh?)

My feeling is, as long as you back up your iTunes mp3s on an external hard drive, you should be ok should iPod act funky. There’s also quite a bit of free software at http://www.ipodlounge.com/ to download music from an iPod to a PC or Mac. I used SharePod once and it worked swimmingly.

At this point, I’m thinking of even selling back the albums I like — most of the liner notes, lyrics, etc. have been re-posted online. I’ll admit, tho’, that I only feel this way about music. If I could download my DVDs to some large computer database, I’d probably still keep all their special edition packaging.

]]> By: Keri http://capnstv.blog.friendster.com/2005/04/complete-mp3-conversion/#comment-2 Keri Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:18:28 +0000 http://capnstv.blog.friendster.com/2005/04/complete-mp3-conversion/#comment-2 Here's what have to say about your plan: A) you better invest in the utility that lets you download mp3s from your iPod onto a new machine, because that is not a native function of the whole system; and B) you better make sure your machine never tries to sync with your iPod, because that erases any song on your iPod not also in iTunes (which is a problem only if you decide you don't want certain songs cluttering up your iTunes, but still want to leave them on your iPod for a rainy day). These are two annoyances speak to how great an idea it is keeping your original media. Personally, I will always want to own the physical representation of whatever new album I buy, and would never, ever get rid of the original packaging. Just try buying an album from iTunes Store and see how empty you feel without the tangible. Here’s what have to say about your plan: A) you better invest in the utility that lets you download mp3s from your iPod onto a new machine, because that is not a native function of the whole system; and B) you better make sure your machine never tries to sync with your iPod, because that erases any song on your iPod not also in iTunes (which is a problem only if you decide you don’t want certain songs cluttering up your iTunes, but still want to leave them on your iPod for a rainy day). These are two annoyances speak to how great an idea it is keeping your original media.

Personally, I will always want to own the physical representation of whatever new album I buy, and would never, ever get rid of the original packaging. Just try buying an album from iTunes Store and see how empty you feel without the tangible.

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