LOST and FOUND
 

Yay! Yay! Yay! Just found a box of CD-ROMs with about 25 ƒucking GIGs of MP3s I couldn't figure out what I had done with!

I've been putting all my music on a 1.5 TB drive, but I knew I was missing some stuff. My collection...had weird holes in it. I knew some things for SURE, like, somewhere I had the soundtrack to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, both the original tracks and as perfomed by a symphony.

Christ. The discs I had before were just the ones Pooka had pulled out to carry in the van with us. I knew I had a ƒucktonne more of obscure prog, fusion, and solo albums by virtuoso guitarists and drummers. I FOUND MY STUFF!!!1 Oh my Jesus f-ing Christ I have so many Brand X and King Crimson albums in here. Tower of Power. Phish. Zappa. A whole data disc of drum corps. The soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell.

At first I was pleased to see a Terry Bozzio mention (acknowledged in another thread), but you don't see Brand X mentioned often enough!

Why should I lend you mine when you've broken off yours already?

I particularly enjoyed the work of bassists Percy Jones and John Giblin.

I (creepily) added John Goodsall as a friend on Facebook... dude posts some weird shit.

I got a kick out of this Phil Collins dig he put out there...

WANT! Where did you get that?

Erm...not sure of the original source... . . .

This project keeps getting more and more insane. I'm up to about 90 gigs of music, and that's all lossy compressed. My collection of MP3s are at least 192kbps, and my CD collection I am ripping as 320kbps MP3s.

I picked 320kbps MP3 because I am using Windows Media Player (why Download something else when Windows does everything) and I didn't want to use the proprietary WMA format. I wanted the most ubiquitous format, at the highest compression rate.

Since then I've been reading about lossless formats like WMA lossless and FLAC. Sounds nice, but they are about 4 times bigger files than an MP3. Hardly cutting the size of the CD in half. I may as well rip WAV files in that case. And I've had trouble with FLAC files before. I want a file that plays on ANYTHING.

So that's that, I'm ripping my whole CD collection as lossy files...is this a crazy idea? I'm not so sure that high fidelity or high definition is more important than content, anyway.



So anyway, up to 90 gigs, and I still have a hall closet full of CDs. And more keep appearing. A whole tub in the garage with box sets, soundtracks, and more data discs. This is getting ridiculous. Haven't even touched Pooka's whole box full of copies of CDs in thinline jewel cases.


Good thing they are practically giving away TBs these days.

It came with the game. That's how I got mine, anyway. They were bundled together. Or I sent in a coupon or something. But I know I didn't pay for it.

For the record, the composer is Koji Kondo.
He has been composing for Nintendo since 1984.
You may be familiar with some of his other work:



Oh, and it looks like you can buy the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time soundtrack.

Listening to Brand X right now...shuffled with Gentle Giant, Galactic, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ozric Tentacles, Brian Eno, Vangelis, Dave Weckl, Al di Meola, Allan Holdsworth, Phish, and a "Bay Area Funk" compilation. I am in musical heaven, right here in my office!