Madeleine L’Engle, Children’s Writer, Is Dead

That is a bummer way to start the weekend.

Have a ginormous music library? Running out of space on your hard drive? Storage is cheap, but so is this app, which also means you can fit more music on your portable MP3 player.

Wired’s article about it comes complete with comparison links. I’m not going to go full compression, but to be able to cram another 500 songs onto my mp3 player, I’ll take the minor hit in quality. I’ll just keep an uncompacted archive on my network hard drive for stereo listening.