Music Mayhem:
So I finally snapped. Couldn’t handle it anymore. Not having all my music readily accessible on my PC was irking me — more than I should have allowed it to anyway. Solution? Storage!
On Tuesday I headed down to Alberta Computer (their website needs work — who knows, maybe I can wrangle a deal on that at a later stage; prices aren’t up to date i.e. cheaper quotes by phone). These guys seem to have the best prices in Calgary. I picked up a 160GB JB Western Digital (7200rpm — 8MB cache) for $150 CDN, which is equivalent of the NewEgg price and almost half the Futureshop price (local). I opted for the 160GB rather than the 200GB or 250GB because that was the pricing sweet spot at around $1/GB vs. $1.25/GB; I didn’t have the $250 for the 200GB anyway.
I’ve now spent the better part of the last day-and-a-half copying my mp3’s to the new drive. They were spread out over 50+ CDs and the hard drives in my new laptop, old laptop, and headless network box. The tally so far stands at 29.8GB in 5,981 files (listing). No record breaking going on here. There are still some additions to be made, duplicates to delete, and quality checking (file and/or artist) of course.
The problem now is how to organize this mess. In the past used genre-based folders, but that can always be a bit iffy. What method do you use? Suggestions?
