And the weath­er wasn't that bril­liant, so what to do? It all start­ed when I got a Big Disk, which gave me enough space to sort out col­lec­tions of im­ages and mu­sic. But then we need some sys­tem, and most of the pre­fab­ri­cat­ed ones end­ed in lack of trust that the sys­tem gave good enough qual­i­ty or flex­i­bil­i­ty. But now I feel con­fi­dent that rip­ping with a Plex­tor dri­ve, us­ing cd­para­noia, us­ing YAML con­fig files and then en­cod­ing to ogg will yield ac­cept­able re­sults. I set up my own sys­tem con­sist­ing of perl and bash scripts so when­ev­er I want to change some­thing to the out­put I can just run the whole batch on all the wavs and just wait for it to fin­ish. Even­tu­al­ly the whole col­lec­tion is rsynced to a playable di­rec­to­ry. Along the way I up­dat­ed my Perl to 5.8.7 by com­pil­ing from source, learned to use YAML, re­al­ly start­ed to like the find -exec con­struc­tion and lis­tened to great mu­sic. The only thing left is run­ning vor­bis­gain on the whole col­lec­tion.