Re: Typical rmcr collector's furniture

Brendan R. Wehrung wrote:
"jrsnfld@xxxxxxx" (jrsnfld@xxxxxxx) writes:
On Mar 28, 10:35 am, Steve de Mena <st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jrsn...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 26, 12:39 pm, "Matthew B. Tepper (Earthlink)"
<oy=FE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
EM <emmemmmemnmme...@xxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following
letters to be typed innews:47ea7ee9$0$24414$5fc3050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
O <ow...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:29:58 -0400:
I saw this online
I recommend for all your storage problems:
http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3Dexthdfr7.jpg
;-)
EM
Yes, and then I'd have to train and hire some grad student to rip every=
one
of my 5,000-6,000 (I'm afraid to take a count!) CDs and index them all =
to
my specifications. No thanks. It's taken me since October 2006 just t=
o
put a few hundred onto my iPod.
Let's say you hired a grad student at $15/hour for two full days a
week, ripping 100 CDs a week. In one year, for about $11,000, the job
would be done. If you could save space (equivalent to a small bedroom)
and hence $300 a month on rent or mortgage because you had those
harddrives instead of 5,000 jewel cases, you could recoup the cost of
the project in about three years.
The added benefit, of course, is that when a stranger visits your
apartment (or house, etc.), they would have no clue what you do in
your spare time.
--Jeff (who shares trepidations about attempting to rip and index CDs)
If you have multiple computers you can rip more than one CD at a time.
That can save a lot of time.

I've been ripping off and on since 2000, and restarted a couple of
times, but do have everything ripped (5,000 or so). I am still going
through everything and constantly "cleaning up" tags and adding album
art and I don't think I'll ever be done.

Steve
So add a thousand dollars for multiple computers. Unless space is too
expensive for Matthew, I suspect he'd rather spend the money on more
CDs.

Ripping off and on over eight years as you have been doing it is the
best way to convert. Trying to catch up when you have a deficit of 5
or 10 thousand discs is another matter. Tagging the stuff is
unimaginable without Matthew's hypothetical grad student starving for
cash.

--Jeff


So get together, form a co-op, agree on a format and then market the
resulting database.

Brendan

"Agree on a format". That is the real issue. I find iTunes sufficient in its fields, I adapt what I want to see with the fields available. But five people will have five different ways to do it.

Steve
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