Catch Us If You Can - The Dave Clark Five

I'm going through the extremely painful process of organizing the music I've collected since the crash of Steve, my Dell computer, in 2003. Ever since then I've been building up the music collection I once had, and then some, and burning all the files to disk. Recently I have been uploading the extremely important files to an external hard drive and will soon back those up on disk when I get disks to burn them onto. I'm only slightly paranoid of going through another 2003 crash.

All ablums/songs must pass my four basic criteria to avoid the recycle bin:

• Complete Album - This means that all the songs listed for that album are present.


• Intact Songs - Nothing grates my cheese more than a song that is cut off a few seconds before it's over.


• Sound Level - Songs that have been ripped at a low volume level don't work for me.


• Song Quality - BIGGIE! No pops, static noise, outside noises, etc. Exceptions made for hard-to-find tracks.

What makes this task so painful? The size of the collection I've acquired that I've just neglected over the past year or so. I seems that I just downloaded a few of these albums for the sake of downloading them. Now I'm faced with 116 albums that I have go through to make sure they meet said criteria. Had I just listen to these albums within the week it came in to my possession I would not be in this predicament.

Let this be a lesson children. Don't be lazy and don't procrastinate.