If you have a lot of CDs, ripping to a compressed format such as flac IS a lot of work, and quite time consuming, even if you have the system more or less automated. Besides the ripping part, which works perfectly except for the odd disc that is damaged, you have to be sitting at the computer to swap discs in the drives, and worst of all, you have to correct the errors in CDDB (if you care about such things) on nearly every disc, popular or not.
I ripped 600+ CDs over a period of about 2 weeks and I would hate to ever have to do it again. That is why I sprung for an extra HDD to back it all up. The back-up drive is in an external case so it is "portable". I can store it off-site (like at a friend's house ;) ) in case my house burns down. I don't know what sort of idiot rips a CD and types titles/artist in ALL CAPS, misspells artist/disc/song titles, etc., then is so clueless that they upload the garbage labeling to FreeDB or CDDB, but I'd like to meet one or more of them at a fightclub meeting some night... TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30737 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
