Ripping Thru Today

I really wanted to get quite a few things accomplished this weekend. Nora leaves on Thursday night to head to West Virginia for a week. My mother and I will join her on Friday night.

I have been able to collect various items that I needed to take on vacation. While the WV home is almost fully stocked with everything, on every vacation there's always a special project I want to work on.

This vacation I want to spend quite a bit of time studying my Liberty Home Bible Institute course and working on the website and blog.

I had a headcold that has really slowed me down to a crawl. I really started feeling bad on Friday afternoon and it has stayed with me for the last three days. I stayed in all day yesterday and will stay in today. Today is the first Sunday in over two months that I've missed church.

I'm struggling getting into setting up a study pattern for the Liberty Home Bible Institute, although I've received some good study hints from Clarence Ratliff. I do intend to really start concentrating on the course this week (before vacation).

When I purchased the course I had the option of getting the lectures on cassettes, CDs, or pre-loaded onto an mp3 player. Already having an mp3 player, I didn't need another. Cassettes are outdated. Therefore CDs seemed the logical choice. However, having the lectures on mp3s is a fantastic way to go, as I enjoy listening to my mp3 player. The solution is to take all 120 CDs and rip every track into a mp3 format.

This is not a quick process. It takes quite a bit of time to rip each CD. Additionally, there are a few things that slows down the process. Disks 1 - 6 (OT) contains the lectures for the Creation Stage. However Disk 6 also begins the lessons for the Patriarchal Stage. This wouldn't present much of a problem if each track on the CD was properly labeled such as 01Creation.mp3, 01 Creation.mp3, etc. No, that would be too easy. Rather they are just track1.mp3, etc.

That means after ripping to the computer I must go in and relabel each track properly. This is further compounded by the fact that sometimes study sections change midstream during an individual mp3.

I must therefore check each CD carefully where lesson sections change. From there I must make sure I have them properly divided into appropriately named folders on the hard drive. From there I must copy to my mp3 player, then create playlists. This takes a tremendous amount of time. I've been working at ripping everything for about 5 hours now and still only have done about 25% of the entire course. A few weeks ago I was able to rip through the first few course sections of the Old Testament.

I'll be hard pressed to get everything ripped to the hard drive, then transferred to the mp3 player before the end of the week; however, I'm determined to do so. So for the rest of the day, I'll be ripping thru today.

Posted by rebnora at April 6, 2008 11:49 AM | TrackBack