CD's to MP3's?

Hamese · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 10:33 am Post subject: CD's to MP3's?

Has anyone converted their entire collection of CD's to MP3's?

I never really thought it was worth the effort to do it, but I have been looking at some large MP3 players and might have changed my mind. I have a 400 Disc CD changer that never gets used because it’s to difficult (time consuming) to play the music you want, and program the names into the damn thing.

I found this MP3 player that has 20gig expansion packs that you can switch between, and it also broadcasts the music over FM signals. So you can listen to the music from any radio such as your car stereo.
http://www.neurosaudio.com/index.aspx

Converting to MP3's is easier than I thought, but it too has been time consuming. I bought an external 60gig drive to fill up, and I just pop CD's into a spare laptop and rip them with Acoustica MP3 Burner. It searches a database and pre-fills in all the track, album, and artist info. Its been about 97% correct for 60 CD's. I have nearly 600 CD's to convert, but when I'm done I'll have a backup of all my music on one external drive.

I just want to know if anyone else had done it, and what they thought.
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Chan · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:31 am Post subject:

Ya,I rip my CDs using MusicMatch, if you are connected to the internet all the time, it will look up the CD title and track names for you and such, and even the album art. It then stores all your music in folders in the My Music folder.
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Potato-VS- · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:46 am Post subject:

There are alot of pograms out there that rip songs. A good one is Acid Pro 4.0 - its got a feature that allows you to rip the songs from a CD onto your computer and save them as a certain quality.

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Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:54 pm Post subject:

For burning/copying CD's I use Nero 6. For playback, I use my Nomad Jukebox. It plays in my car as well.

I would always rather burn from CD than burn an MP3. Not only is the quality better from CD but you always have a hard copy.

No matter what you are burning, always use the slowest setting!
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Replica · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:27 pm Post subject:

i've been getting there, i got a lot of cd's copied to my computer but not all of them, i make mix md's so its nice to ahve variety
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FragFailure · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:46 pm Post subject:

I've burnt my entire collection to drive. I use MusicMatch 8 or occasionally I use Nero. It took me a long time, but it was worth it. I also encoded my songs in VBR 100% format with extra high encoding quality. The collection kinda exceeds 20 gigs.
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shockwave · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject:

If you are burning CDs from CDs that you already own, I would recommend not stinting on the CD-R quality.

Today's CDs are just a pale shadow of the qaulity that they used to have. I used to by HP CDs (~$3 each in 1994-1996) and I still got all the ones I didnt give away, then I went to a gold CD (memorex? ~$1.00 each in 1996-1999). I still got some of those, but those that I have burned in the last 4 years have been crap except for Sony's (~$0.50 each 2000-2003).

Just my two cents.
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Replica · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:57 pm Post subject:

personally i'd rather buy whatever spindle is on sale and get CD's at around 20 cents each... at that price its okay if one or two turn into coasters. as for the sony cd's based one the price mark ups i saw while working wal-mart its not so much that they cost more to amke, its because of the sony name that they cost more.
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