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Day Two Hundred Forty One

I spent the entire day transfering my music from the ipod to the new computer. Best Buy called this morning, and said that they couldn't even get my hard drive to spin, much less get anty information off of it. Guess I did a pretty good job of crashing that one... oh well, anything worth doing is worth doing right. Anyway, they refunded some of my money, and sent me on my way with my external hard drive. When I got home, I searched the internet for a program that would walk me through the process of taking my music from the ipod to the computer. I found one called "Pod to PC" that wasn't too expensive, so I went for it. Let me tell you, the program is AMAZING! It's slow (my 13,000+ songs took about 9 hours to transfer and upload), but works brilliantly, and even recovers playlists AND play counts! And I've gotta say, watching all my music import into itunes was one of the coolest things ever. I never thought I could go from 0 songs to 13,000 in half an hour, but I witnessed it, and it actually happened!

Here's the cool part about that whole thing... now, not only can I get back to making music with my people in WI & NJ, but that 13,000 songs didn't even touch my CD Drive! Also, it'll be nice to fully charge my ipod again. Yes, I have a car charger, but I'm never in the car that long!

Also, it'll be great to actually be able to burn CDs for people again.

Off to back it all up, get some food, and play some guitar.

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