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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: CD-Writer and Audio CDs question |
| Date | Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:20:04 -0500 |
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That sounds prudent. I bought a back-up hard drive, 150 gigs (I meant gigs
below), for like $160, so soon external storage will be such that you can
indeed have digital copies of large libraries without breaking the bank. A
buck a gig is certainly crazy cheaper than say 5 years ago; five years from
now...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Elliott" <pop@anotherplanet.ca>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: CD-Writer and Audio CDs question
>> As for storing CDs on the hard drive-- I sure hope that doesn't
>> mean converting the CD's original wave files to lossy MP3.
>> I've got a 250 meg hard drive, but maybe 10,000 CDs,
>> and there's no way I could store them all on the hard drive.
>
> I'm starting with my favorite 500, that I play most often, and anything
> new. I don't need everything I own on the computer just to listen to it
> once every five years, but - when it is on the computer you can put it on
> random a get some cool surprises. I rip using iTunes Lossless, and
> anything I want to go to the iPod I convert to AAC as well so it's
> smaller - then you make two smart playlists, one that only includes
> Lossless for top quality and one that only includes AAC for the iPod. You
> can get almost 3 albums in a gig if they aren't modern hour+ things.
>
> Lee Elliott
> www.anotherplanet.ca
>
>
>
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