FINALLY making a systematic effort to go through 500+ CD's & rip everything. It's been interesting -- I thought I had 9/10ths of my CD collection ripped, but it's maybe barely 2/3ds. Completing lots of incomplete albums from back when I didn't have a big enough hard drive. I've also culled about 30 clunkers, so far. #houskeeping
5 more days of the Comprehensive CD Ripping Project & I find myself firmly mired in the M's. I had maybe half? of my collection ripped? This is crazy.
@Devils_Rancher Make SO MANY copies. I did this once (~1k discs), then a disk failure (and some stupidity on my part) meant no music for our housewarming party. Guests arriving just as I realised that all that work had just gone *click* *click* *click*.
@pompomtom I find 320kbps AAC files to be good enough for casual listening, but I’m going to keep the CD’s around anyway. I’ve culled about 50 - mostly redundant stuff, like greatest hits & some burned from MP3- what was I thinking?
The news - I’m solidly into the T’s and hope to wrap it up this week!
@pompomtom Backblaze, Time Machine RAID 1 enclosure, 2 CCC clones, one kept offsite & rotated monthly. I don’t fuck around about backups. Plus, I’m keeping 80% of the CD’s.
@Devils_Rancher (on reflection: I should probably start again, using FLAC, while I still have a working CD drive in the house..)