As of yesterday, the LAME digital jukebox conversion project passed the half-way mark. Out of 12544 tracks, 6297 (50.2%) are now in MP3 format. However, I was already at about 20% MP3s when I started this project, several months ago, and so it ain't goin' very fast. I manually edit and adjust every single track now, and with all that work, I can only rip maybe 12 or 15 tracks a day.
The current plan is to keep at it for a few more months, and to get it up to around 8500 MP3s, before I just wipe the remaining OGGs for a "clean" playlist. Practically, I could do that now, since I rarely play OGGs at home (with Mom here now), and I can't play them on the portable. But it might be somewhat less traumatic to wipe a third of the jukebox than to wipe half of it.
And in other news, feel free to friend me on Facebook— I do not friend first, but I usually friend back, and I enjoy reading other folks' updates— but even if I had find the time for it, I will never write to it. If I wanted a high school reunion, I would have gone to my high school reunions, you know?