I guess I have been trying to rip my music collection since itunes 1. I still have a ways to go. I mostly forget to rip when I have the time. I love the smart playlists in itunes as it makes getting through my collection almost manageable.

I don't think I'll ever rip all 2400+ audio CDs that I "own". When the collection was at about 1800, I had run all the discs thru Audiophile to get track info from the CDDB into a FileMaker Pro database. My poor DVD/CD-ROM drive was never the same... it died!

Edited by author 07-31-2003 10:15 AM
Even though hard drives are cheap, what the move to mp3 has taught me is how smart Apple is in launching the music store: being able to buy just one track is beautiful! I must have 40 cds I bought for just one or two tracks - the rest of the album is mediocre or garbage. I have managed to rip the vast majority of my collection, but only picking and choosing the songs that I really want to listen to!

Well, I digitized most of my collection (and I used to manage a used CD store) and I must say, it is one of the best things I have ever done. Any song I want to listen to is a double-click away, and if I want to take it into my car, I can either rip it to my iPod, or burn it to CD.

Oh yeah. Since I just moved to Orlando from Detroit, it allowed me to leave all of my CDs back in D-Town (I'm moving back in a year). Do you have any idea how much room 2,000+ CD's take up? A lot. Not to mention how much they weigh. Yeah, it took a long time for me to get the majority onto my hard drive, but it was well worth it in my opinion.

Cheers!

P.S.- I used multiple Macs to burn into my library, ie. two macs ripping to one drive (over Airport). Not very elegant, but it cut the time almost in half.