Digitize Your Compact Discs...?!

[Brandon Burke]

This was too funny not to pass along...

link

happy friday,

Brandon

[Spontooneous]

I am surrounded by stacks and stacks of undigitized CDs. I feel so behind the times. This weekend I'll begin doing exactly what this informative article tells me to do! Thanks, Brandon!

[Brad]

That's a very interesting link. Thanks Brandon. However, for jazz freaks, it only probably makes sense if you use an external hard drive. This showed how to do that so it was very useful in that regard. Plus, it would take forever to do so if you have a decent collection. But great link.

[Jim R]

"If you're like most folks born between 1960 and 1990..."

...so... am I supposed to be in a "home" now, or something?

"...you have a hundred or more CDs."

A HUNdr-... HEY, how come we don't have a "spit take" smiley?

[ejp626]

That's right. Who would ever need more than 10 or 20 of these new-fangled CDs I keep hearing about? In fact, I think we could all get by with, say, four copies of Kind of Blue. That way we'd all at least know who the bass player was.

[Brandon Burke]

That's a very interesting link.  Thanks Brandon.  However, for jazz freaks, it only probably makes sense if you use an external hard drive.  This showed how to do that so it was very useful in that regard.  Plus, it would take forever to do so if you have a decent collection.  But great link.

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Okay, perhaps I was a but too subtle in my initial post...

I'm not suggesting that this is some new revalation. Quite the opposite. The process he describes is a no-braner in the first place. I seldom hold onto commercially issued CDs. I rip them onto iTunes and sell them almost immediately...unless, of course, they have cool artwork or interesting liners. Otherwise, 4"x4" artwork is nothing I'm worried about keeping. And yes, external drives are imperative...jazz or otherwise.

Anyway, the point of the post was not so much the writer's suggestion as it was the very concept of "digitizing" an already inherently digital medium. The title of the piece assumes that CDs are somehow analog.

[Brad]

That's a very interesting link.  Thanks Brandon.  However, for jazz freaks, it only probably makes sense if you use an external hard drive.  This showed how to do that so it was very useful in that regard.  Plus, it would take forever to do so if you have a decent collection.  But great link.

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Okay, perhaps I was a but too subtle in my initial post...

I'm not suggesting that this is some new revalation. Quite the opposite. The process he describes is a no-braner in the first place. I seldom hold onto commercially issued CDs. I rip them onto iTunes and sell them almost immediately...unless, of course, they have cool artwork or interesting liners. Otherwise, 4"x4" artwork is nothing I'm worried about keeping. And yes, external drives are imperative...jazz or otherwise.

Anyway, the point of the post was not so much the writer's suggestion as it was the very concept of "digitizing" an already inherently digital medium. The title of the piece assumes that CDs are somehow analog.

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No, I did get the humor but found the external drive instructions useful.

Edited July 16, 2005 by Brad

[Jazzmoose]

That's right.  Who would ever need more than 10 or 20 of these new-fangled CDs I keep hearing about?  In fact, I think we could all get by with, say, four copies of Kind of Blue.  That way we'd all at least know who the bass player was.

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..or what track the drummer uses brushes on.

[Jazzmoose]

I seldom hold onto commercially issued CDs.  I rip them onto iTunes and sell them almost immediately...

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Are you serious, or am I getting my leg yanked...?

[Jazzmoose]

Of course, if you want to digitize your LPs, try this method...A Scanner Darkly?