Posted by Chock on 09/08/06 01:18

"BillL" <billc1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1%ZLg.15373$r61.2529@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hello,
>
> Okay so I'm thinking of selling and/or giving away all my CD's and
relying
> on my PC to store (with an external HDD backup) all my music - just
> interested in hearing whether anyone else has done this and if they had
any
> regrets?
>
> BillL
>
>

I've ripped most of my CDs to mp3 and listen to my music collection
primarily via the media server PC. But I still have the bookshelf on CDs "on
display" - it looks impressive and it's still good to every now and then get
out the CD and look at the artwork, etc.

I wouldn't consider getting rid of my CDs, as I like the display aspect of
them, and you never know what future codecs might come along - maybe
something "better" than mp3, etc, which would require re-ripping. I've
ripped them at 320kbps mp3s to favour higher-quality sound over filesize,
but I figure that maybe in a few years hard drives/portable players will
have high enough capacity to re-rip my CDs to a lossless format. So I'm
keeping mine :-)


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- Chock

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