Digitizing sound

In addition to digitizing the contents on my file cabinets, I’d really like to digitize all of my records, CDs, and tapes. I know that sounds backwards–computer-based music software has made converting CDs to digital sound files easy and productive; many people have already digitized (and disposed of) their entire music collection. But I have never really had the time to do this in the way that I would want. If I am going to digitize my CDs, I’m want to have as much metadata on the tracks as I can, and I want that metadata to be accurate. So whenever I “import” a CD into iTunes, I always add certain information from the CD booklet: the release dates of the recordings, the performers’ names, and the label names and numbers for the CD (and for the original recording, if it was not on CD). Other information such as composers’ names and dates of recording are nice, but not really worth the time it takes to key them in. I’d love to have the CD booklet scanned in, and I may try that too, but iTunes does not have a  I still want several access points to each mp3. Of course, digitizing the records and tapes is a whole other story. Somehow I don’t think that will ever really get done. I’ll do an LP here and there, but it’s not really worth my time.

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