I’ve taken on yet another pet project to spend my time and procrastinate on my latest composition and that is ripping all of my CD’s to hard disk. I do this for several reasons: First, I am tired of spending fifteen minutes hunting for a CD I might need or to which I just want to listen. Second, they take up a lot of space and I’d prefer to store the physical CD’s safely away (I will keep them as I view them as my ‘license’ for the music.) Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the time for me to catch up to the times just seemed right.

Unfortunately, as many of you know, the ID tags for classical CD’s are a hellacious mess and take a tremendous amount of effort and mindless time to clean up and make uniform. On the bright side, I can do this while I’m composing, surfing the web, listening to music, grading papers, watching television and anything else that might occupy my time. Multi-tasking is my middle name.

I have also re-discovered some old classics that I haven’t listened to in a while, such as Robert Kurka’s Good Soldier Schweik Suite, a piece that I find refreshingly light and fun and one that makes me smile every time I hear it.

I think I’ll go listen to it again and perhaps write some more music (and rip some more CD’s…)