In 1999, some friends and I started a dot.com music company, OneBigCD.com. We had a great idea, a store and a locker for internet music. All of us wanted a better way to manage our CD collections.
I had outgrown a 200 CD Sony jukebox, and had a 301 CD Pioneer. It worked OK, but management was not good. We ripped CDs in two formats (mp3 and wma) and at five speeds (dialup was still common). Thus I knew about ripping, management issues, etc. By the time the RIAA fully flip-flopped, going from "sure, that will sell more music" to "evil and illegal collection" -- which shut down the company -- we had ripped 40,000 CDs. I knew that using a computer to store the files and manage the database of meta data was the solution. The initial Slimp3 came out towards the end of the company, and we all knew about it. But I was not interested in a MP3-only product. I bought an early SB1 when they came out, and added two more SB1G soon thereafter. It changed my musical life. Before SqueezeBox, I had about 250 CDs. Now, I have about 800. And I have a Transporter, Duet and Boom. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
