One of the first records I ever got, as a kid at about 6 or 7 years old and played on a kiddie record player with probably a 2 pound stylus, was a record called "Batman And Other Themes" by Maxwell Davis. It was jazzy organ-based collection of songs with brass backing that was based on the popular Batman TV show. I loved that album and literally wore it out (you could see the wear in the grooves. I kept it until young adulthood, but it got to the point where it wouldn't play anymore without skipping about every few seconds and I ended up throwing it away. It held (and still holds) a lot of nostalgia for me, being my first album.

Anyway, about five years ago, I found that it had been re-released on CD and quick like a bunny, I bought it. It's also available on YouTube. Cheezy sounding, I know, but it was the sixties and I love it.



And I too have been busy digitizing all my audio content to MP3. It's a slow process, but I have been going through and ripping all my CDs to MP3 files (I do it twice, once at 128 so I can max out my iPod Classic 160GB mainly for listening in the car) and at 320 for higher fidelity to listen to at home. I am also recording all my record albums and cassette tapes, then cleaning out the surface noise and ticks and pops, slicing and dicing the tracks, running a little bit of audio enhancement, and then creating MP3s from them as well.

I've got about 4500 total (2000 CDs, 1500 vinyl record albums, and about 1000 cassettes). I'm currently about 2300 into the project and expect to be done in the next three years or so.

I also create virtual CDs of each of them that can be mounted and played from the computer as if they were physical CDs, but it's just mounting a file from hard disc. If anyone is interested in my process, I'd be happy to share.

John

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