{"id":3394,"date":"2002-12-03T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2002-12-03T14:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2002-12-03T09:12:51","modified_gmt":"2002-12-03T14:12:51","slug":"rip_and_burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/03\/rip_and_burn.html","title":{"rendered":"Rip and burn"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting thing fell out of my NaNoWriMo <\/a>effort this year. I started ripping CDs.<\/p>\n

(For those even less technically inclined than I am in this arena, this means copying music files from CDs onto my PC, usually converting them into a less sizable format.)<\/p>\n

It occured to me I wanted music. I didn’t want to be dependent on whatever CDs I had around — particularly since it usually meant mismatched discs and cases between work and home. <\/p>\n

Doyce, of course, has been doing this for eons, and when he solicited musical contributions for his own writing time, I felt vaguely Neanderthalic giving him a stack of CDs to borrow, when everyone else was either e-mailing or burning-and-mailing CDs of MP3 files. (“Oh, look, Jackie! CDA-formatted tunes, a dozen or so to the disk. How … positively quaint!”)<\/p>\n

So I ripped some music off the CDs I had at the office. I also ripped some music off of some games I enjoyed (game music, like soundtracks, are my preferred entertainment during writing).<\/p>\n

I initially made use of some of the media player software I already had — WMP, Real, as well as one that comes with the CD burning software I have. They were nice, but vaguely restricting, and generally limited in what formats they could run. So, like so many folks getting into this, I downloaded Winamp <\/a>and started playing with that.<\/p>\n

So now I have music wherever I go (or wherever I go with my notebook, which is most places). Sweet.<\/p>\n

Of course, I realize I’m still probably several years behind the technology curve here (“Why, look, Mary … he’s using Winamp and ripping to MP3. How … positively quaint!”), but, hey, I’m a pointy-haired manager, so give me a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting thing fell out of my NaNoWriMo effort this year. I started ripping CDs. 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