Personally I did all mine in WMA and have no regrets. Good quality, small files and Windows Media Player does a great job of ripping the files and recognizing the discs (this is key unless you want to spend painful RSI-filled days typing in all the information).
I did my entire collection of about 500 discs and only around thirty where unrecognized (mostly local and friends bands so I wasn't too surprised). Also you can expect not to need that entire drive. I ripped all of my discs at 96kb WMA (very good quality, but not the absolute best) and the entire collection is a bit over 18 Gig. However the key would be what other devices you might want to use. Most DVD players will play MP3, but not WMA for example. In my case I only wanted to play them on the PC and my PocketPC. Jim Davis -----Original Message----- From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:24 PM To: CF-Community Subject: music files I have an extra 120 gig HD lying around so I decided that I would make that my music harddrive. I have a lot of CDs. I want archive my music and just put the cds in storage. I'm trying to decide what format to put them in. Any suggestions? I don't have a portable MP3 player although I have been keeping an eye on prices. -- 2004 - The year $184M couldn't buy a pennant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:134363 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
