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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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