My new hard­disk al­lowed me to gath­er a lot of stuff that was scat­tered over sev­er­al disks in sev­er­al sys­tems. Watch­ing the files get­ting copied to the new space I no­ticed a lot of oggs get­ting copied, and I dis­cov­ered I have al­most my whole CD col­lec­tion al­ready ripped to oggs, some time ago. I do re­mem­ber rip­ping some CDs, but be­ing a bit para­noid about the qual­i­ty of the non-Plex­tor CDROM-dri­ve, the en­coder set­tings and what­ev­er, I thought I clas­si­fied these rips as jit­ter-rid­den mu­ta­tions, which I delet­ed at some point to cre­ate some emp­ty space. And it's not much trou­ble to pop the orig­i­nal CD in the real Com­pact Disc Play­er.

But with disk­space to burn, it turns out it's not that bad to have a Lin­ux ogg-serv­er around. It's easy to browse through a lot of tracks to find the one con­tain­ing the sam­ple that's reused in some cur­rent pop­u­lar rip-off (Sim­ple Minds IIRC), and you can even find the sleeved sin­gle-cds (Kim Lukas, My­lene Farmer) that tend to get lost be­tween the jew­el cased ones. For play­back I use Zinf on Win­dows, be­cause I'm still re­in­stalling Lin­ux on the new hard­disk and I didn't get around to apt-get­ting a Lin­ux play­er, or com­pil­ing mplay­er.

Which re­minds me: I don't have an iPod. It's just not cool enough if you're used to a sol­id gold AIWA HS-JX2000, and the qual­i­ty of MP3 is not as good as a Type-R Mini­disc Walk­man like my MZ-G755. And I have Og­g­play­er on my Sony-Eric­s­son P800 with 128MB of Me­mory­stick. What I do need is a vinyl deck, be­cause every­time I hear Joan Os­borne on Sky Ra­dio, I know Wild­side's re­vi­sion of One of Us is so much bet­ter. (Well, the orig­i­nal doesn't even qual­i­fy as good, that why it's on Sky Ra­dio in the first place...)