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...in my collection!
Lost, forgotten, and misplaced, I've just come across seven CDs that I'd filed away in my extensive collection without ever cataloguing them or ripping them to my server. Meaning I really never knew they were there.
The other day I was going through my Amazon wish list, weeding some things out, and adding a few others, when I came across Nash The Slash's American Bandages CD on the list. It's a rare item and none are for sale on Amazon. As I was looking around for a copy to order from somewhere (anywhere!) else, I, of course, ended up getting hits for FM's Black Noise - Nash having been a member of FM and a big part of this seminal recording.
My database showed that I have the original vinyl copy of this one, but not the CD. I also noticed that the album had been recently re-mastered and re-issued on CD. That triggered a memory. Did I not have this CD? But it was not showing up in my database, nor on the server. So I looked on the shelves and lo and behold, there was a copy of the CD. I figured I must have forgotten to enter and rip it.
Well tonight I was wondering if there might be others. Now I'm pretty meticulous about such things, and while the FM CD proved I can slip up, it would be practically impossible to go through all the shelves and check to see if every CD was entered and ripped. Then the thought occurred: what if the FM CD were part of a batch of CDs that all got put into the wrong pile by mistake and shelved but not entered and ripped?
So I went through my Amazon orders and found that the FM CD had been delivered to a Chicago hotel last September, along with six others. I cross-referenced those other six and found that none of them were catalogued or ripped.
The other six were:
Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals
Rachel Zeffira's the deserters
Van Dyke Parks' Arrangements Vol 1
Anya Marina's Miss Halfway
The Wilsons' eponymous album
Sarah Slean's Blue Parade.
And what I've just noticed is that the artwork for the latter has been signed by Sarah.
All kinda neat.
Jeff
Lost, forgotten, and misplaced, I've just come across seven CDs that I'd filed away in my extensive collection without ever cataloguing them or ripping them to my server. Meaning I really never knew they were there.
The other day I was going through my Amazon wish list, weeding some things out, and adding a few others, when I came across Nash The Slash's American Bandages CD on the list. It's a rare item and none are for sale on Amazon. As I was looking around for a copy to order from somewhere (anywhere!) else, I, of course, ended up getting hits for FM's Black Noise - Nash having been a member of FM and a big part of this seminal recording.
My database showed that I have the original vinyl copy of this one, but not the CD. I also noticed that the album had been recently re-mastered and re-issued on CD. That triggered a memory. Did I not have this CD? But it was not showing up in my database, nor on the server. So I looked on the shelves and lo and behold, there was a copy of the CD. I figured I must have forgotten to enter and rip it.
Well tonight I was wondering if there might be others. Now I'm pretty meticulous about such things, and while the FM CD proved I can slip up, it would be practically impossible to go through all the shelves and check to see if every CD was entered and ripped. Then the thought occurred: what if the FM CD were part of a batch of CDs that all got put into the wrong pile by mistake and shelved but not entered and ripped?
So I went through my Amazon orders and found that the FM CD had been delivered to a Chicago hotel last September, along with six others. I cross-referenced those other six and found that none of them were catalogued or ripped.
The other six were:
Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals
Rachel Zeffira's the deserters
Van Dyke Parks' Arrangements Vol 1
Anya Marina's Miss Halfway
The Wilsons' eponymous album
Sarah Slean's Blue Parade.
And what I've just noticed is that the artwork for the latter has been signed by Sarah.
All kinda neat.
Jeff
