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Poll about ripping CDs
RayB:
Poll! I have at least 4 hundred CDs. Until yesterday, I had only bothered to rip a handful of them. I'm curious about others' ripping habits. (See above poll)
It was sparkd by both the question of wasting disk space for stuff I don't listen to (though really, we're talking about only 22gb) and how it bothers me a little to have incomplete albums on my ipod.
:)
Neverending Project:
I think I'm somewhere in between the first two options, if that's possible. I like to have my entire collection digitized, so I lean toward ripping everything. But there are some CDs I own that I know I wont want to listen to, and I won't want showing up in any shuffles. But if I like any track on the album, it all gets digitized. So for the most part, I want a complete library, but only CDs that I like at least one track.
shmokes:
I marked rip everything, but I more or less agree with NP. If you are sure that you have a disc that you will never ever listen to, just get rid of it. If, on the off chance, you change your mind down the road about a song on the disc it's easy enough to acquire it, legally or illegally. But if you like one song, you should get them all. BTW, I digitized all my music years ago. One day, after about 4 or 5 years I looked at my CD collection, which was incredibly dusty, and I thought, "That's taking up space for no good reason. Why the ---fudgesicle--- am I keeping all of this around?" So I took it to a CD shop and sold it all. I was thinking I'd walk away with $30 or so. I walked away with $209, if memory serves. And they only bought maybe 1/3 of my collection. The guy helping me was a serious collector, and he was horrified that I was voluntarily parting with some of these CDs. For example, I had a Hendrix CD from before his family took over his estate and apparently had everything remastered or something. I don't remember. Anyway, after the CD store bought 1/3 or so of my collection I let him go through and take anything he wanted for himself. You should have seen him. It was like he had won the lottery. It was really fun.
ps I know that this was illegal.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 01, 2010, 11:52:36 pm ---ps I know that this was illegal.
--- End quote ---
OK....
As long as you're aware of it. It's just annoying when people say it's legal and try to partially quote some obscure, unrelated, law to justify their actions. :laugh2: ---smurfing--- just grow some balls and own up to it. Sounds like you've done that.
To answer the OP, I might be #2,
--- Quote ---Rip only CDs I like. The rest can always be ripped later, if I want.
--- End quote ---
At one point, I set up my Linux box to auto-rip any audio CD I popped in. So it was reasonably easy to digitize anything I listened to.
javeryh:
I have about 1500 CDs (my wife had a lot before we got married - we actually gave about 150 duplicates to my sister) and over the past year I painstakingly ripped and tagged all of them to 2 external hard drives. My iPod can't possibly hold everything so I am selective about what goes on there but it's always full albums - I don't have the time or the patience to sort song by song and if I like an artist I can generally tolerate 80% of whatever is on the CD. I digitized everything for a jukebox project that I still have to finish. ;D
About 3 years ago I decided my collection was taking up way too much space so I bought some leather bound books to hold them all (300 to a book) and they are now on the top shelf of my front hall closet for (somewhat) easy access. The cases are in boxes in my basement. I haven't so much as opened one of the boxes since I put the CDs in the books but I'm hanging on to them for now. I figure maybe my son will get into some "classic rock" like Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains (damn I'm old) and want to listen with the liner notes like I used to do.
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