Depending on how many discs you have to convert, ripping them to a lossless format is a great idea. FLAC is a favorite in these parts, and you get about 50% compression, lossless, so you can fit even more. I have a little over 300GB of data for 1100 CDs. A 400GB hard drive can be found for $100 if you look around, and you don't need a particularly fast drive for good playback performance.
If you have your files in FLAC, well-tagged and organized, you can encode to MP3 when you need to for a portable player or something like that. You'd want to use something like EAC on Windows for the ripping. Lots of stuff here for that. I used abcde on Linux, which does the ripping, coding to FLAC and tagging in an automated fashion. I just pop a disc in the CDROM attached to my NAS and it's all done automatically. -- mrfantasy --Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30737 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
