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wp34:

--- Quote from: javeryh on March 02, 2010, 08:20:23 am ---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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I don't have that many CD's but we did the same thing.  We put most of our DVD's in leather cases as well.  Takes up much less space.

Silas (son of Silas):
I ripped all my physical media a while back (both CDs and DVDs) onto a media server that feeds all the rooms in my house via XBMC. I have about 4tb of music and movies that is constantly growing.

I created a script that ripped the disc to an .ISO image, then added it to a queue for processing. That way I could queue up loads of CDs or DVDs at once then the server would just sit and process the CDs into MP3s and the DVDs into XvID without me having to wait for them. It made the process hugely more achievable than ripping discs 1 by 1.

RayB:
Shmokes: What happens if you lose the data somehow?

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: RayB on March 02, 2010, 03:36:53 pm ---Shmokes: What happens if you lose the data somehow?


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This was the thought that prevented me from ever trying what he suggested.

J_K_M_A_N:
I used to have every CD ripped with every song but the wife and I would listen and we would have to jump all the time. So we went through and deleted a whole bunch of songs and we kept only the songs at least one of us would listen to. We deleted about 1200 songs. Looking back I think I should have saved those just in case and just not have them in the main list. Maybe listen to them when I am bored and want to find something new.

J_K_M_A_N

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