it is so irritating when i can't find the cd i want to listen to

[fizzgig]

i have no idea where my copy on disintegration went, but i really want to listen to it right now x(

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Dood

this is why you need to add a computer to your system and rip all your CDs to it in a lossless format.

All my music is on a 1tb external raid, plugged into a Mac Pro, that then sends music via USB to a DAC (digital to analog converter) then to my pre-amp. It sounds BETTER than some very expensive CD players I have put it up against.

I use iTunes to play any CD I want, digitally with no loss of sound quality.

[fizzgig]

3. i'm still getting used to having a computer that can hold my music

i had a machine with a 12g hard drive until this past christmas and i'm still getting used to the fact that i can use my laptop to store music.

[Pierre.Suave]

4. Get an external Drive for it

Firewire if you can.

uncompressed music takes up a LOT of space.

If you try it and have any questions, I have been there, done that with this, and can answer damn near any question you may have.

For example, here is the CD I am listening to now, notice it takes up 646MBs of space.



Two of these CDs would be over 1 gig.

[fizzgig]

8. i would do that

but, at this point, my financial decisions boil down to whether i should pay my bills or eat.

[Pierre.Suave]

12. Those are more important concerns

for sure.

[MrScorpio]

5. How many songs to you carry? nt

[Pierre.Suave]

6. I have about 300CDs

and some records recorded to Digital format.

I will either need to expand to 2TB drives, or figure out how to expand the library across multiple drives.

typo...

[MrScorpio]

9. I just filled up my 750Mb external drive

I'm working on a 1Tb drive now

I've got 65,000 songs on iTunes and another 1,700 albums that I've yet to load

[Pierre.Suave]

10. Wow

What compression are you using?

[MrScorpio]

11. MP3s

By the way, my radio show is about to start

Click my sig pic to go the site

[Pierre.Suave]

13. I will check it out

All my music, except the few I have purchased through iTunes are uncompressed AIFF files with full quality. Some are more than the 16bit/44.1khz of a standard cd even.

[mtowngman]

2. it's probably stuck in the wrong jacket, I do it all the time.

[fizzgig]

7. not likely

my fiance is very cavalier with his cds and it's probably shuffled into the middle of a stack of music somewhere x(