I recently got an update from iPodMeister — the company that rips your CDs to an iPod, sends you the player and backup DVDs, and then keeps the CDs as payment – on the progress it is making in converting my 2000-CD collection. Things appear to be going fine so far, and I’ve been impressed with the customer service.

I got a call from the company on Nov. 20 to say it had received all 10 of my boxes. I got a follow-up call Nov. 25 to say that they were halfway through my collection but were shutting down for the Thanksgiving holiday. The expectation then was that they would finish up by the end of this week. I asked how they were handling my many discs whose track information doesn’t show up in CD databases. They said they were entering the data by hand. Cool — I thought I would have to do that.

I’m still waiting to hear back from the owner on the final terms of my deal, since my collection far exceeds the minimum number of discs for their standard deals (such as 200 CDs for an 8GB iPod Nano or 400 CDs for a 16GB iPhone 3G). Meanwhile, I’ve started buying some accessories I’ll need as part of the change-over, having gotten good deals on a nice iPod-ready car receiver for my wife ($110 shipped) and an iPod dock for her to use at home ($100 shipped).

I’ll offer occasional updates here. My follow-up column is tentatively scheduled for Dec. 23.

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