Magic Music Box

I set out to put 200 CDs and 700 MP3 files on a single digital jukebox. Did it work? Sort of

I'm a bit of a control freak about my music collection, and staying on top of it is getting harder and harder. It was bad enough, a couple of years ago, trying to alphabetize a couple of hundred CDs. But then, like a lot of kids my age, I started doing Napster. Seven hundred downloads later, my collection is hopelessly Balkanized. To listen to a Moby track, I can stick a CD on the stereo. But to hear the remix, I have to run downstairs, fire up the PC and select the right MP3. I tried ripping all my CDs onto...

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