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saint:
I haven't bought a CD in years. All the music I buy is digital now. Amazon or iTunes.

drventure:
I kept the liner notes and cd cover art, tucked it into the leather binders with the cds and sold all the cases to some girl for 20$ (there were hundreds).

Just keep lots of good backups and maybe an offsite backup or two. I +could+ rerip everything, but it would take a LONG time.

Plus, i ripped piles of LP's that I've never been able to find on CD (old obscure 80's techno/industrial). That truly DID take forever  :)

shmokes:
Yeah . . . I ripped my father-in-law's old vinyl collection for a Christmas gift a long time ago, back before there was hardware and software that semi-automate the process.  His record player had been broken for almost a year so he didn't even notice that we took them.  I hooked a record player up to the computer and just had to play the records and record the output.  A single file for each side of the record.  Then we had to go through and manually chop them up into individual tracks in a music editor (just look for the sound wave to flatline) and tag them.  Then my wife created front and back liners for full-size CD jewel cases and CD labels.  I can't remember whether we printed the labels directly on the discs, or if this was before printers could do that and we had to use a CD Stomper to affix sticky labels to them. 

At any rate, it took a couple of months and a lot of work and a lot of time (just to let the record player run through about 80 or 90 albums that had to be babysat to some degree to stop the recording, flip the record and then start the recording again, etc.).  But it was amazing.  When he opened the present he just looked perplexed.  Then he looked even more perplexed and he started pulling the discs out one-by-one.  And when it finally dawned on him what it was he wouldn't stop smiling and laughing about it all week.  Was prob the best gift I ever put together for someone.

t3design:
I answered "rip everything" because I did/do.

Being obsessive/compulsive is a problem when it comes to music collections. If I like an artist I not only have to have the whole album ripped, I have to have every  track off every album that artist ever recorded.  :-\

To date I have about 4TB of music mostly ripped at 320 but lately I have switched to VBR.

I too back-up ALL my data to NAS RaidX drives on the home network and then once a quarter I back those up to Portable HDs and move those to work where I store them in our vault. The music is probably the least of my worries for data loss. It is ALL replaceable. Since we have been taking only digital pictures and video now for several years, it is the memorabilia files that are priceless.


 

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: t3design on March 02, 2010, 11:39:50 pm ---To date I have about 4TB of music mostly ripped at 320 but lately I have switched to VBR.

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I find VBR files to be hideous. Some of my earliest music was ripped with VBR and they cause no end of troubles for a certain Windows player and some lesser known players. I've taken to just installing whatever other third party player (VLC whenever possible) instead of dealing with some moronic player that can't play back VBR files. I've even taken to having VLC on a USB stick just to avoid the whole hassle whenever I go somewhere.


--- Quote ---I too back-up ALL my data to NAS RaidX drives on the home network and then once a quarter I back those up to Portable HDs and move those to work where I store them in our vault. The music is probably the least of my worries for data loss. It is ALL replaceable. Since we have been taking only digital pictures and video now for several years, it is the memorabilia files that are priceless.

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