I have been working on organizing my iTunes library. Yes, that’s the creative thing I started on this morning. Not very creative though. Just a lot of work, but it needs to be done.

At the moment I am burning data DVDs of all the TV shows. I have already watched them, or am not likely to watch them any time soon, and I don’t want to just delete them and throw them away. I do want them off my hard drive though. They take up too much room just sitting there not being watched.

The next step will be to go through all the music I have bought or gotten free from iTunes and burn to disc then delete anything I don’t absolutely love and listen to a lot. There are a lot of those. Once again, I don’t want them gone forever, but I do want them off my hard drive.

After that, I want to go through all the music I ripped from our CDs and once again get rid of anything I don’t actually listen to regularly or really love. There’s a LOT of those. I just ripped whole CDs, and the fact is I usually only like one or two songs on any album. Also, anything I have on my computer that I would call Lin’s Music, most of which I can’t stand and never listen to, is going, going, gone. He has a computer now that will run iTunes and he can set up his own iTunes library and rip his own CDs. There is really no need for me to have more than a handful of Metallica or AC/DC songs on my hard drive anymore.

I should probably do something about my vast collection of podcasts too, but I am still living under the delusion that one day I will get caught up with them all. It will never happen, but we all have to have little lies we tell ourselves don’t we? Maybe I’ll burn data DVDs of them too. Just in case I get a chance to catch up when I am sitting in the nursing home some decades from now.

The last step will be to go through whatever survives the culling process and make sure all the tags and album art are in place and set up some righteous playlists.

Then I will finally be ready to actually listen to music on a daily basis. I’ve piddled around with doing this for months, because it is such a monumental task. I’ll be so much happier once it’s done though. Trust me, I do not anticipate getting all of this done today. I’ll be lucky if I get it all done by the weekend, because there is no way I can sit here long enough and stay focused enough to do THAT much work in one day.

And once the music is organized, I really should start going through all those damn folders with names like Clean Up Now, and Go Through Today, and Now Now Now. Really, my organizational skills are so lacking, it isn’t even funny. What really isn’t funny is how I keep so much crap on my computer that I just don’t need to keep. Want to know what web sites and news stories I was reading a year ago? Let me find the dated folder, and I’d be able to tell you. It’s ridiculous the amount of useless data that exists on my computer!

One DVD of TV shows down and two more to go. This is going to take forever!