Music on my Mind

A few years back I had a huge MP3 collection of stuff I'd downloaded off the net and then one day my hard drive crashes. I lost everything but my porn collection which I then deleted out of spite. I took a long hiatus from my computer but like all things I've came back. I've slowly been building a file server with a Raid 5 array so unless the house gets hit with a meteor my data is safe.

In the past couple of years I've really become obsessive about music. I'm pretty sure it's because of the freedom of MP3's, the Internet, and the recent advent of portable players. For those that don't know me very well, which is pretty much everyone, I'm a closet perfectionist, It's just that I want things so perfect that unless it's practical and a priority I don't even try, for instance keeping my bedroom in order.

Anyways I'm rebuilding my music collection but this time for the first time in my life I'm buying tons of CD's. I never really bought much music before as I am a real pop music fan and there really were only a couple good songs on a CD on average but it's was not so much the price that put me out as it was constantly changing CD's. I use to create play lists on my computer before but I'm a restless individual and need to get up and about quite a bit; usually I just roam stores looking for neat stuff. But with MP3 players I've been set free. Now I buy the CD so I can rip them myself to control quality and to get the titles and stuff correct and keep everything organized.

Me being new to Myspace you probably don't know that I'm also a programmer. Even though I do labor for a living I'm a really a nerds nerd. I have high IQ, no genius but like Salieri in the movie Amadeus I can recognize it. But for the past six months with all the music I've been buying it's irritating how many errors even new CD's have. Well being who I am I have been thinking about what to do about it. I came up with the idea of an error correcting point to point network. The actual music isn't shared just error correction information, titles and lyrics. If it works as well as I think it will then everyone will be able to rip music in minutes at high speed while the computer does all the grunt work of correcting, organizing and compressing music files while your off doing something else. Best of all this could even be applied to movies and other media like published computer data CD's like applications and games that always seem to get scratched.