Midnight @ The Oasis

[HeyManThatsCool]

What's everyone up to tonight?

[tuvor]

1. Ripping my entire CD collection.

Halfway through I discovered that if you turn off the playback mode, it'll rip at 2 or 3 times the speed. Argh!

You?

[HeyManThatsCool]

2. How do you turn off the playback mode?

& What are you ripping it for?

iPod? MP3 player? Shits & Giggles?

[tuvor]

4. I turned it off in Preferences.

Using MusicMatch.

Ripping because I have some 500 CDs and a 60 GB portable hard drive.

[HeyManThatsCool]

6. I am in the same boat as you except.

I dont have the portable hard drive yet.
I need to get one ASAP.

I got a 40gig iPod for Christmas & have so far only loaded 100 or so of my CD's & even though my computer is newish & very fast I can tell it is slowing it dowwwnnnnnn.

[tuvor]

7. Saw this on DU last night.

Birth of an Industry: IPod Loading
By JENNIFER 8. LEE

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/jobs/23IPOD.html?oref=login

January 23, 2005

IT sounds like a line from a spam e-mail: Work from home! Low risk! Flexible schedule! Earn hundreds of dollars each gig!

But an emerging group of resourceful entrepreneurs says there is no catch. The rising popularity of Apple's sleek iPod has created a new niche service: the professional iPod loader. There are housekeepers to tend homes and gardeners to tend landscaping. Why not iPod loaders to take care of music collections?

For $1 to $1.49 a CD, the professional loaders will embark on the time-consuming process of copying a music collection onto an iPod, often providing a digital backup copy as well.

"It's a booming aftermarket of the iPod economy," said Bill Palmer, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who has created a nationwide network of iPod loaders called Loadpod. Each loader picks up the iPod and CD's at the client's home, then returns a fully loaded iPod in a few days.

[HeyManThatsCool]

8. That could be worth it!! LoL

It is a time consuming job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HeyManThatsCool]

3. I'm doing the most exciting thing EVER

....laundry.....





this cracked me up

[tuvor]

5. Looks like you're making the best of a boring situation.

:)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. I'm sending my camel to bed.

:)

[Bluebear]

10. Come on, the cactus is your friend!

He'll point out the way!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Ok, ok...Just go easy on the dust kicking

Allergies, y'know...