I bought ONE Diana Krall track from allofmp3.com awhile ago, but every time I played it I got the Vogon Poetry reaction and I had to delete it. Same thing with Patricia Barber; me trying in vain to recreate the 3d soundfield from Audiojerry's system, but nothing doing. I wanted to believe, I really did. I am confident that no Krall exists on my drive, although it probably exists on the backup drive.
Although I wouldn't pay someone else to rip my CDs, more power to those who would charge for such a service, cause it sure feels like work to me. Definitely something I'd want to be paid to do. The desire to listen to music in my car or on the Squeezebox is my only real motivation for having MP3 versions of my collection, but most of it still remains unripped. Sitting mostly unlistened to in a $900 metal cabinet or sitting mostly unlistened to on a $300 hard drive seems to be a wash. The cocked up metadata is what bothers me. Wrong genres, no cover art available…the whole format conversion thing is a pain IMHO.
