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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 26th, 2004 @ 9:23am

   
   

   Dude, this "news" is seriously old: check PC mag for article in September/October

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 26th, 2004 @ 9:26am

   
   

   http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1307343,00.asp
   
   October 2003

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   Who need repeat customers...

   

   Dan Z., Jan 26th, 2004 @ 10:49am

   
   

   ... when you've got referrals? There are millions of people with large CD collections and more money than time. And prices will slowly edge down as more competitors enter the market, making it less appealing for folks to rip their own collections.
   
   It would be nice if there were a cheap, high quality mass-market vinyl digitizing service, too. Maybe that's one area these services will branch into in the future.

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   Ripping a stack of CDs is a pain

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Jan 26th, 2004 @ 11:11am

   
   

   I did it a couple of years back when I got my first portable MP3 player and even with freeware tools off of the web that do the CD-DB look up automatically, it's still a pain to go through.
   
   First off you have people who are apparently dsylexic or who just can't spell (like me!) who fill out submissions to the database and there are often times that there is more than one entry for an album, so you have to pick the one with the fewest misspellings from the various entries, then pick the tracks you want, or wait and delete the filler tracks when the process is over. Then I ran into the "you've reach the maximum # of free CD-DB lookups for today - give us some money or come back later" so there is no way I could do my whole collection for free in a day.
   
   I only did a few dozen CDs out of my collection of several hundred and decided it was just easier to download the tracks I wanted rather than to keep going.
   
   Even at $1 a CD, it would cost me at least $350 plus shipping to get the rest of my album converted and I just don't think it's worth that much to me.
   
   For that kind of money I'd buy a very cheap laptop to put on my desk at work and swap out CDs every hour or so and rip the collection over an extended period of time...

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   I did this

   

   BtG, Jan 26th, 2004 @ 11:33am

   
   

   About a year ago, I started the laborious process of ripping all 1200+ CDs in my collection. It took a remarkably short amount of time.
   
   I used 2 laptops working together. Ripping tool was audiograbber (which uses freedb). Still 10% of my CDs were either not found or incorrrect. The biggest issue I found were the people who do not know the difference between artist and track title on compilation CDs, luckily, audiograbber can fix this (and improper caps) in under 1 second.
   
   Now, I have all my CDs (over 1600) encoded on a portable hard drive, and just encode new ones as I get them.
   
   My 60 GB Nomad Zen loves the portable Hard Drive...

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   Re: I did this

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Jan 27th, 2004 @ 10:09am

   
   

   Thanks BtG, I'll check out Audiograbber and see if it works equally well for me.

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