A good day
Posted by: Dungassin on 12 April 2013
Well, today has been a good day for me. Took delivery of my new BWM 320D SE and am slowly working my way through the manual figuring things out. Nice motor ...
And to make life even better, I have finally finished taking digital (FLAC) copies of my 4000+ LPs (for use in the study system). Thought I would contribute a few thoughts on the vagaries of record labelling etc which have annoyed me over the 18 months I have been doing this exercise.
1. I hate albums which have a different track order from that recorded on the sleeve, or sometimes no track listing at all! (Led Zep are a notable example)
2, Why do some graphical artists insist on picking inappropriate colours for the writing, making it very difficult to read at times. Also companies such as Chandos, whose record labels are indecipherable except in bright light.
3. A similar problem is caused by putting the writing in a spiral, etc, or using difficult to decipher fonts.
4. Yet another similar problem is can be trying to decide which side of an LP is Side 1. This includes the horrible habit of one label with just a picture, and the other side saying 'This Side', 'Other side'
5. It's amazing how often the track timings (where shown) are actually wrong!
6. One useful tip in sorting out tracks (I use Audacity for this) is to try and find the album in the MP3 section of Amazon, which will (more often than not) give you information on track length. This is especially useful when trying to split an Opera into tracks, but less useful if you can't find the exact performance on MP3.
Posted these comments in this forum, as Hifi, Streaming, Music forums didn't seem apposite.
Off to enjoy listening to my 'rips' now ... 
Just shows serious commitment ( or obsession)
Imagine what you can do with all the free time you will now have 
"And to make life even better, I have finally finished taking digital (FLAC) copies of my 4000+ LPs (for use in the study system)..."
And to make life even better still, you have protected your investment of time by having several backups, including one off-site - at a friend's house, say.
Of course you have!
Fraser
Yup. Originals on QNAP as RAID 1, 2 external hard drive copies in different rooms, and a third copy with my younger son-in-law. I have great faith in the ability of hard drives to 'die', having had a few drives do this over the years, the most recent being a 3TB Seagate drive with a backup of the aforesaid audio files (I have, of course, now got a replacement drive for that one). 
Just shows serious commitment ( or obsession)
Imagine what you can do with all the free time you will now have
It was actually 10+ LPs on the days when I was doing it, because holidays, visits to grandkids etc got in the way! I wasn't actually listening to the LPs most of the time, as SWMBO was still in that room watching the telly. She's quite pleased that I will no longer be coming in every half hour or so to turn LPs over etc.
I wore out my original Te Kaitora, and have put about 1500 - 2000 hours on the replacement Te Kaitora Rua doing this. Comparing a recording made from this cartridge when 2 weeks old with one made yesterday shows very little (if any) difference), so it obviously still has some life left in it!
I can now get back to my long daily walks, and actually sitting down to enjoy my recordings. Just think, when they eventually cart me off to the old folks home, I'll be able to take my entire music collection with me ...
Just debating now whether to scan in all the sleeve notes etc and keep them in a searchable file ... Nah, too much like hard work with all the OCR work etc. 
Almost finished figuring out how to work all the gizmos on the new motor (seems much more complicated than my old Volvo S60 - my own fault for specifying a few 'extras'), and am looking forward to (hopefully) receiving my new 552 from Cymbiosis in the not too distant future.