After about four days of work, I have finally finished transferring all the music that is on my main computer and NOT represented on disc over to the server. It was a huge task… almost four thousand items, thirteen and a half days worth of music that is represented by only 35 GB of data. Since these are mostly MP3s (even though they are high quality MP3s), it is amazing how little space these tracks take up compared to the lossless files. However, I still think the decision to rip the CDs as lossless was the right way to go (as the project so far is getting close to 400 GB with only about 1/3 of the CDs ripped).

The biggest annoyance (and it really is a silly one) is that I had let this much material accumulate without properly getting it organized properly. When I’m ripping a few CDs in a night, it takes maybe an hour and I am able to organize things as they are ripped. But over the past few days I think I had close to 400 albums to organize, and it really became quite tedious. I would say ‘this won’t happen again’, but I’m going to wait a few months to really see if that is the case.

Looking forward to getting back to actual discs tomorrow…