Here’s the latest update on my quest to convert my 2,000-CD collection, using the services of iPodMeister: I got an email Thursday saying that my project was completed and shipped. Coming Wednesday, according to UPS, will be a 1.5TB (that’s terabyte) external hard drive containing the contents of my collection as MP3s (320kbps), backup DVDs of the collection, a silver 120GB iPod Classic and a check for $640. Coming soon after will be a separately shipped black 120GB iPod Classic. (It was out of stock.) So it took iPodMeister less than two weeks, including the Thanksgiving break, to convert my collection. We’ll see how it looks once I have everything.

In the three-plus weeks since I sent in my CDs, I’ve ripped maybe 50 of the 200 or so discs I kept behind to do myself. And those were the easy ones that showed up in the Freedb.org database. The rest will be much more tedious, because they don’t show up in the database and will take longer to process because I’ll have to enter the track info. Suffice it to say that at my current pace, it would have taken me more than two years to convert my original collection. No, thanks.

Again, I’ll follow up my original column in the paper on Dec. 23.

Oh, and for an enlightening take on iPodMeister’s operations, check out this comment to a previous blog entry from a former employee (posted unsolicited over the weekend).

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