{"id":3798,"date":"2008-08-16T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2008-08-16T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T16:02:05","slug":"less-than-100-cds-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/less-than-100-cds-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"less than 100 CDs to go &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1492 Artists \/ <strong>999<\/strong> Albums \/ 15245 Tracks \/ 34.9 Days \/ 62.12 GB<br \/>\n(and here&#8217;s me thinking I had about 2000 CDs, too)<\/p>\n<p><strong>CDs that wouldn&#8217;t read<\/strong>: 0 (so far). That&#8217;s not to say that there weren&#8217;t some difficulties (copy-controlled CDs can go die, glitching and gronking in my drives) and my oldest CD (XTC&#8217;s <em>Skylarking<\/em>, my copy of which I think has just turned 20) had a ton of retries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lost CDs<\/strong>: Thomas Dolby&#8217;s <em>Aliens Ate My Buick<\/em> is somewhere in the house, but nowhere I&#8217;ve looked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Found CDs<\/strong>: My long-lost promo copy of the (<a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/30\/were-the-decemberists-no-were-the-decemberists\/\">Portland<\/a>) Decemberists&#8217; <em>Picaresque<\/em>, which I thought had vanished in a road trip to Missouri. It was lurking in a long-forgotten portable CD player in the bottom of a storage bin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pleasant surprises<\/strong>: that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedb.org\/\">freedb<\/a> is generally better than it used to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peeves<\/strong>: copy-controlled CDs (see above); flappy cardboardy cases that only have the title on one spine; oversized CD cases (Japanese imports, I&#8217;m looking straight at you), dark blue text on a black background, idjit freedb submitters who insist on <em>Band, The<\/em> syntax or worse, submit whole albums called <em>sdfsdf;aefhsdf<\/em>; bonus DVD &#8220;premium&#8221; releases (who watches these?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1492 Artists \/ 999 Albums \/ 15245 Tracks \/ 34.9 Days \/ 62.12 GB (and here&#8217;s me thinking I had about 2000 CDs, too) CDs that wouldn&#8217;t read: 0 (so far). That&#8217;s not to say that there weren&#8217;t some difficulties (copy-controlled CDs can go die, glitching and gronking in my drives) and my oldest CD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[1104,572,1332,45,1335],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","category-computers-suck","tag-audio","tag-cd","tag-daap","tag-mp3","tag-rip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}