Over time when I had my old desktop computer, I managed to accumulate a lot of music files. A LOT of music files. A lot of random music files. Some of it was really random.
Perfect Strangers theme song anyone?
Eventually I burned all those files to CDs so I would have them backed up. I had them all separated out into alphabetical folders (though looking at it now, some of my categorization was a little…confusing) and it took up 13 discs.
I always meant to load it onto my next computer, one with more space. And iTunes. But save for a handful of songs, I never did transfer all those files to my laptop.
When I got my current laptop, with an even bigger hard drive, I thought maybe I would transfer all those music files to this one.
It’s been a year and a half since I got this computer. Those discs have remained mostly untouched.
This weekend, on a trip to Microcenter, we got a 2TB external hard drive to replace the last external HD I had that died a pitiful death on me. (I don’t even know what all I lost on that drive. And short of sending it to a recovery service with a clean room, paying through the nose, and pledging my first-born child to them, I will never recover what was lost. The motor DIED DED on me.)
With 2TB of space (or rather 1.81TB of space) I decided I could afford to transfer all those music files to the shiny, new drive for easier access. And I’ll still have those discs for backup. (Maybe I should re-burn everything to DVDs. We have A LOT of blank DVDs. I have no idea why.)
Kids, I just unleashed 6.26GB of music files I haven’t touched in years. That’s 1,694 files. Sure there are duplicates (though I’m not entirely sure why) and some of those songs I already have loaded into iTunes, but crikey, that’s a lot of music I now have much easier access to. Because frankly, it was a pain in the ass to shuffle through those CDs if there were multiple songs I was looking for.
And now I should probably backup my current iTunes library to that shiny, new drive. All 33.93GB…6,767 files of it.
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