Burn a CD with Me - Monday, 6th of March

I'm gonna burn a CD today, watch this space. I've done this before quite a few times, but since I got some new CDs at the op shop, I figured I might as well compile some of my favourite tracks and a few other of my other favourites into a CD together. I also thought it might be something fun to 'blog' about.

I like to start by ripping the CDs I've already got and downloading their .flac files onto my computer. I'm ripping these three that I found at the op shop (for $2 each). I wrote about one of them (Diana Ah Dain - I don't think I'm pregnant) in my music reviews (should be at the bottom since it's the first one I reviewed).

Of on a bit of a tangent but my PC didn't come with a disc drive (which normally they don't nowadays anyway) so I got an external disc drive as a Christmas present. The program I'm using to both rip and burn these CDs is called MusicBee. Look it up, it pretty much just a music player for your local music files. It's also very intuative and comes with different customisable styles.

After that I organise the tracks I want into a playlist. This playlist is kind of fun alt-rock songs I like, mainly centred around female vocals or male falsettos. Then once again, I'm gonna go back into MusicBee (I was already in there) and burn the playlist to my chosen blank CD.

Just for fun, I used Audacity to add a bonus track to the end of the last song. This plays at the end of the last song after a few minutes as a special treat. I chose 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) by Gorillaz because it's such a fun and funky song and I thought it would be a good surprise bonus track.

Because of the file sizes and the limit of the CD (700mb, I had 745mb worth of songs), I had to get rid of a couple songs from the playlist (Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye and Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie). Once it's finished cooking let's take it out and git it a name.

Whew! Thanks for reading, that was a short one and I wrote most of this before actually doing it lmao. This is my first time actually trying to 'blog'. It's kind of a dying medium, imo. I mean, even on tumblr, things have just gone to short one or two sentence paragraph posts. Even with writing this, I felt like I was writing very short stuff. I'd encourage more people to do this, to make the internet and being online actually mean something, because I feel like at the moment it's just mindless entertaining content. People are getting lost.