I am in a similar situation with a couple of thousand CDs which I still have not finished ripping after a couple of years. I also do not mind going through my collectin this way. However, I do notice that I am spending much less time listening to music since a lot of time is preoccupied on ripping, organizing and tagging, and sometimes playing with Slimserver configuration etc.
blakeh;271655 Wrote: > I spent about 18 months ripping each of my 5,300 CDs into FLAC format > and I never really thought of it as much of a chore. I guess I saw it > as a fun way to re-visit my CD collection one last time before I went > all digital. Even if you made a goal of ripping 10 CDs per day (which > would take around 20-30 minutes), you could rip a 3,600+ CD collection > in a year. In the meantime you'd still have your CDs to pop in your CD > player for listening purposes. > > Granted, it took some time to tag them correctly and add cover art (I > had to scan about 1,000 covers in that weren't available online) but > what I'm left with is a searchable, lossless collection of all my music > with catalog numbers, country of origin, record label information and > cover art. > > The Squeezebox has made it so much easier to listen to music. And I'm > eagerly awaiting the new remote so that I can view cover art while the > music is playing. > > P.S. There is absolutely *NO WAY* I would ever send my discs to another > company to rip. That sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. I guess > I might consider it if my collection was available for replacement at > Best Buy, but I would venture a guess that most of us have discs that > are no longer in print and simply cannot be replaced if the ripping > company should lose or damage them. -- agentsmith System 1: SB2, Pioneer DV-S733A, Benchmark DAC1, Naim Nait 2 (sold 5i), Naim Ariva. PS 3 for Blu-Ray, Pioneer 43" Plasma, Harmony 880. System 2: SB2 connected digitally to a Meridian F80 Storage via Buffalo 250GB LANStation, Linksys NSLU2 300GB USB drive, 720GB RAID One USB drive, Slimserver in Thinkpad R61. Network using Panasonic Ethernet over Powerline and DLink DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ agentsmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43724 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
