The music server is still coming along. I’m almost done ripping my CD collection, with less than 100 CDs to go. I have about 50 CDs I need to check the tags on that I ripped this weekend that I haven’t updated yet.

From there, I move them on to the backup box, get all the file directories set up correctly (that’s going to take a while), check all the tags one more time, and put them on the web server.

I’ve been ripping my CDs in Ubuntu, with the MP3 debs. Sound Juicer doesn’t have quality settings, so I used GooBox to rip to MP3 at 192k. I use Easytag to update the tags, specifically the year and genre. GooBox unfortunately doesn’t capture the year from CDDB when it rips, and the genre’s are never right.

For whatever reason, whether it’s my DVD-RW is too sensitive, the OS, or the application, some CDs won’t rip, even with minor scratches. Even after burning copies of the CD, and using the burn to attempt the rip, it was no joy. Using my Windows box, I used CDex to rip, and didn’t have any issues, so I have a handful of those to rip as well.

The good news is I’m almost done. The bad news (for the music) is we completed the electrical in the basement this weekend (yay!). Once we pass inspection this week, then it’s a lot of manual labor to get all the insulation up in the ceiling. I’m in Seattle two weekends from now, so the goal is to get that all done this weekend. Fun.