The great MP3 loss of 2006

A few months ago I was playing around with Linux and really f’d up my desktop.  Seriously.  I ended up losing all the data on my hard drives and crying myself to sleep for weeks.  I managed to run a disk recovery program and recover my mp3 collection minus all the id3 tags, and I thought that was good enough.  I have been trying, very slowly, to re-tag all the files using The Godfather and Id3TagIt.  Well today I went looking for some specific music to try and get it onto my iPod and I found the files that I was looking for and I got the tags all perfected and then I gave it a listen, this was the first time I had actually tried to listen to any of these mp3s since  the meltdown, and I discovered that all of the file names that I recovered were nothing but BS and my computer was lying to me.  The file I was trying to play was the Common Place and what it turned out to be was a track out of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.  So I dug a little deeper and tried to play other files, some just didn’t play at all and some were straight up the wrong song, I’ve got songs titled as Ted Leo playing Radiohead songs and there is just no end to the confusion in my collection.  I think I’ve got to nuke it, up until today I was holding out hope that I might be able to recover it all but now I can see that there is no chance of that.  Can you image re-ripping a ten thousand track mp3 collection?  I think I’m going to be sick.

-Josh