Day 1

With the system up and running, I now face the painful and rather unenviable task of putting all my music into the NAS. This is probably the most labour intensive/time consuming part of the process - ripping. I really don't know how long I will take to rip all 4,000 plus CDs but I thought, to make the process interesting, I would blog about the whole experience so here goes ...

To start the musical journey, I decided to put in "Generation Terrorists" by the Manic Street Preachers as the inaugural disc. Partly because (a) this is still one of my all time favorite albums and (b) the opening riff to "Motorcycle Emptiness" still gives me the goose bumps every time I hear it.

The second disc to go in was "Modern Life is Rubbish" by Blur. Another seminal album in my opinion. I remember picking this up from Dada Records (remember them!?) in Funan Centre back in 1993. Funnily enough, it actually took me a really long time to get into this album. The first couple of times I tried listening to it, I thought the music/chord structures were just weird and I wasn't able to make it through the whole disc. But then one day, it just kinda clicked and then I couldn't stop playing the album! Simply bizarre ...

Now, obviously if I write about each and every CD that goes in, I might be sitting here for a little while, possibly a few months! So, I am gonna skip the details unless it is an album that holds some interesting and/or notable memory/meaning/songs/artwork etc. I also decided that at the end of each day (whenever I am able to feed a couple of CDs to the lil ripper), I will update the CD count to show the number of discs and tracks successfully uploaded to date.

So, at the end of day one, the count is:

25 albums
280 songs