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Homemade jukebox and making my own versions of popular albums

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A few years back I bought myself a pc which I dedicated to my cd and digital music collection. It's a Vortebox build running on a fairly old PC with a 1TB SSD hard disk. I've got to the stage now where I'm going to have to upgrade and get a bigger hard disk as I'm having to convert some of the FLAC files to MP3 as I'm rapidly running out of space. One of the joys of this machine is that it allows me to create my own albums or at least versions of albums that have the tracks I want as opposed to those that come ready packaged from record labels. Blur's Parklife is so much better with 3 of the tracks stripped out! Recent examples of albums that I have "improved" include the greatest hit albums from Noel Gallagher - Back The Way We Came - which inexplicably missed out the singles Dream On and Love Is The Law. Using my own CDs, Photoshop and (a must-have bit of software for editing the tags) MP3tag I was able to create my own version of the album with tho

Welcome to the cheap seats

This blog has been about 25 years in the making. Sometime in the 1990s I launched my first website - a lads magazine taking the michael out of fashion, music and paying homage to the things I loved at the time, X-Files, Football, Star Trek and Dannii Minogue. For reasons unknown this came to an end. These days I don't get to write anymore but have taken it up again as I needed a new sense of direction, something to get my lust for life restarted. So here I am Homemade compilations .