Now I’m not saying I’ve got all my CDs on my new iPod just yet, but I came across some tapes with some amazing album on such as Profiles by Nick Mason, so now I have the challenge of getting the tapes onto my iTunes, ok, so I could get some on CD, but, the Profiles album is not available on CD, I couldn’t find it except on Amazon for nearly £40, honestly £40.

So I have decided to copy the album onto a CD or MniDisc (MD’s are easier to edit) and then just transfer the CD onto iTunes via the computer, I’ve come up on the same problem with some of my old vinyl albums, yes kids many years ago people would put music on a piece of plastic and then put a gold coated diamond needle on it to play music.

The great thing about the vinyl is I can filter out some of the crackle through my PC, so some advantage there, but all this is time consuming, but for those rare (amazing) albums that record companies in their wisdom have decided to delete or not even bother re-releasing on CD, I’m afraid it’s the only way..

New iPod Classic 120GB

I upgraded from my 2nd generation 8GB iPod Nano to the new 120GB iPod Classic the other day, ok so 8GB sounded a lot at the time, but when you have a massive collection of CDs it just doesn’t cut it!

The iPod nano is great for the small collection, but the new 120GB iPod Classic is more for me, it’s boasts that you can fit 30,000 tracks and upto a massive 150 hours of video, but you have to take into consideration that the 30,000 tracks is at a 128kbps and an average of four minutes a track, I know I’ve used 14GB so far that’s with over 250 photos and 2600+ tracks, but some of the track are recorded in 256kbps (which is now what iTunes+ uses) and taking into consideration that some tracks are well over four minutes, such as the classic Yes album Relayer and a collection of Tangerine Dream albums where the tracks are mostly over ten minutes at least.

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