Tonight I began undertaking the ultimate music geek endeavor, cataloging my CDs. I found a great program called, cleverly enough, Music Collector that makes it quite easy. You simply put your CDs in your CD-R drive and it quickly scans them. When you're done with a batch of them it will query the appropriate resources such as CDDB, Amazon and All Music to get the details including cover art. If you're super geeky (like yours truly) you can also use a barcode scanner. The results are pretty nifty. You can make all kinds of reports and queries with relative ease.

So tonight I started the task while watching the NLCS (still watching at 12:20 a.m., I might add). It's a bit crazy. I gathered up what CDs I had in various places around the house and the first two little cubbies of my CD shelves. Um. I have 122 albums and *only* 70 more cubbies to go. This may take a while...

So take a look at the results so far. I have to tweak the HTML not to show useless categories like genre, but it's pretty neat. You can click on the titles to get details. No yelling about what's in the list thusfar. Those are pretty random.

Who thinks that I'll be ambitious enough to get through the CDs and do the vinyl and cassettes? I'll be happy to get through CDs, I think...