Brave New World

As home organizers, DVD, Record and Cassette collections were the bane of our existence. What’s the best way to deal with them? This one truly depends on your type. Transfering all your CDs, records and cassettes can be a big tedious project, and no, we actually never did it ourselves when organizing other people’s homes. But, it’s something that all types should consider, except, well except Fun Structures or Smart Structures, especially IF, they care about the quality of their audio.

Why is this? MP3 and MP4 files compress the files and the range of the music isn’t as resonant. No I cannot tell the difference, but as an Organic Freedom I’m pretty loosy goosy about the quality of the audio integrity of my music. Funs and Smarts are different and very concerned with quality. And I have to say, I recently went to a boutique hotel that had hi-fi record players in each room, and there was something rich and deeper to the quality of the recording. But, most audiophiles will swear by the CD recordings audio quality.

How to go about converting? Organics should break the task down into small bites. I did it for myself by putting all of my CDs into matching spiral CD notebooks, keeping one book by my desk and as I worked, transferring the CDs. It took a couple of months and having the book out in the open by the side of my desk always reminded me to do the task, and doing it little by little was a very process oriented task (for you Funs and Organic Freedoms out there.)

Smarts? Oh, we think you will benefit greatly from ripdigital.com or riptopia.com. These services do the transferring for you then donate, sell, or return the disks. I kept my CDs because the thought of selling them is OVERWHELMING, besides I see my three books of CDs as back-up if my hardrive fails. (And yes this does happen.) Only Classics and Funs will go the extra mile and resell their discs on Ebay. And yes, we know an Organic Structure who does this, but she does it WITH her Classic Freedom husband, so you definitely need that extra practicality and attention to detail to go this extra mile.

Originally published on January 7, 2010.