Wiggin' Out!

Ok, It's been a while since I posted anything here. I just want to let you know that I'm still alive, it's just I've been distracted and having fun with my new Digital Audio Player (DAP), the Sansa e250. Well it's not technically new, since I bought it earlier this year, but I just haven't busted it out of the shrinkwrap until a couple of weeks ago, since I did not want to start using my new one until I found a decent case for it (I've been using my wife's cheap DAP in the meantime).

Well, Best Buy had a 5 piece traveling set for the Sansa on sale, and I went ahead and bit the bullet and purchased it. The Sansa is a nice little player. Music, Video, Photos, FM Radio, and Recording all for only $149 (at least that's how much I paid for it at the time. It's probably cheaper now). I also bought a 1mb Micro-SD card for it, to up the storage memory to a total of 3mb.

As much as the music lookup services are fast and convenient, I've found them to be innaccurate as well (mostly typos). Being the total anal-retentive that I am, I have been manually tagging all of my music files these past couple of weeks. I've also been ripping some of my CD collection to .mp3s, and burning my online music purchases to CD and back to .mp3 (I refuse to utilize either the ACC or the WMA format).

In addition to all the ripping and burning, I've been scouring Google for good album art images for my music. I've been trying to find the bigger versions of the pics and resize them down to 200x200 which is aesthetically just right for my Sansa. So far, I've been able to find most of the images online. The only ones I haven't found are for some of my older Beethoven CDs (I ended up taking the pictures myself).

This DAP has also got me on a music buying binge! I've been browsing MusicMatch and iTunes online, and hitting the B&M stores (just in time for Tower Records' $9.99 CD sale!).

It has been an addicting and fun experience!

8^B


Tags: Music