The Journey Begins

I've done it! I'm on the cutting edge of 2002!

This, my little corner of the web, my so-called blog, will be a chronicle of several projects I've got on the go. The ultimate goal is to have all these projects come together in a form yet to be revealed.

The first, and right now largest of these projects is the archiving of my music collection. Over the years I've accumulated a somewhat sizeable CD collection, and have recently come into an equally sizeable record collection. I plan on creating digital back ups of all these albums on both hard drive and dvd, which will then serve as my primary music collection, while the master copies will hopefully be catalogued and saved for the enjoyment of future generations.

What form this will all take has yet to be decided. I'm currently researching options for my catalogue -- that is database, which system to use etc. -- and the only real decision I have made thus far is which codec to use. Right now, I plan on using Free Lossless Audio Codec as my digital archiving solution of choice. It has many of the benefits of WAV, such as lossless audio, while also having the benefits of the much more popular MP3, such as compression and metadata, with little to none of the drawbacks.

How will this all go? Only time will tell I suppose, as I'm still in the very beginning stages of this project. However, I have to make a couple more purchases and then I will be able to truly begin this project in earnest.