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titch juicy Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> -----

> > titch juicy Wrote:

> > >

> > > been thinking long and hard about getting rid

> > of

> > > my 1000 odd cd's- but the thought of giving

> > them

> > > to music magpie for 30p a pop breaks my heart

> >

> > xxxxxx

> >

> > 30p a pop?

> >

> > How much are they selling them on for, and

> where,

> > I wonder?

>

>

> that's what I wonder.

>

> I think i need to dedicate a weekend to listing

> them all on discogs and at least aim for a couple

> of quid each.


xxxxxx


Depends what they are, but I was amazed when I started looking into the prices stuff was going for. Or at least, what people were asking, which doesn't mean they're succeeding in selling them at that.


It can really vary even between different versions of what is apparently the same CD.


Admittedly many of mine are a bit obscure, being hardcore traditional folk :))


But even some CDs given free with music mags etc seems to be on sale for a lot more than I would have thought.


Oh God, now I've got to start on my vinyl, that'll probably take another five years at the rate I've been going .... I did start doing it about - er - five years ago, mucking about with Audacity was starting to do my head in ....

Don't think I could get rid of all my vinyl. Some things definitely sound nicer played from it. I did though get rid of the cassettes years ago. Those that I wanted but couldn't replace on CD I transferred, but to get rid of hum and other stuff had to design a filter in my audio mixing software. Ripping vinyl has pretty much the same problems and I've never found any of the preset filters offered in non professional software up to the job to be honest.

El Pibe Wrote:

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> why would you rip vinyl?!?!?


xxxxxxx


Because I've got a load of stuff on vinyl that I haven't got in CD or digital form, and I've got no particular attachment to the records or their sleeves as physical objects.


I like the jumps, scratches etc because that's how I'm used to hearing the tracks in many cases. I wouldn't bother ripping classical music albums though, I'd replace those probably.


A few of the sleeves I might keep to display for nostalgia's sake, maybe. But at present it's all taking up space which could be better used. And I never play any of it, but I probably would once it's ripped.

I converted over a 1000 vinyl albums (or tracks off them) onto Minidisc, Atrac was and is a great codec but cannot be played on a PC, I now am in the process of converting them again to WAV! I will have to go via the line in, so no fast ripping!! I will keep the mini discs as they reproduce the sound very close to the original. Audacity I agree is not the easiest tool to use! On another but related note if your are ripping cd's then its very important to calibrate the drive. A freeware program called EAC (Exact Audio Copy) will do this and will give you the best results. Steep learning curve on this one tho' !


http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ User Tutorial http://blowfish.be/eac/

Here is another and rather neat way to deal with your CD's and DVD's. Copy the contents of the CD and then create an ISO file.

mount this on a virtual drive and play as if was a physical disc!! An added bonus is that if you want a copy just burn the image on a blank CD and it will restore your original disc.

Windows 8 has a virtual drive built in, those on earlier systems can d/l these freeware programs.


http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ also has an ISO creator built in.


http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareFolder2Iso.php this is a portable ISO creator


http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html


Have a look on their respective site for explanations and tutorials


right-clicking

Heaps! This is an image file it's a single sometimes two file/s. it's all the data stored on the optical disk, or hard drive. There are many different disc image types but the result is the same, These images can be opened and edited.

Use it with ripped DVD's as well, take out all the trailers, warnings, etc !

CD's use cue./bin one is just a text sheet (use notepad) with the meta data and instructions to the content bin.

If you game you could copy the original disk create a image file and then mount it to the virtual drive to play rather than using the physical disc.

If you download a program that has to be installed from a disc there is no need to use one!

You can copy PlayStation games to preserve the often swapped out one.

Operating systems use them, boot a Linux or mac in a virtual machine run it from a USB memory stick if you want.


There many editing programs for whatever medium you are working on, Freeware and otherwise!


Right-clicking.

ok, so my trusty ipod classic is dying, skipping tunes randomly, not syncing properly, rebooting itself randomly etc.


So really asking if there are any good alternatives out there I should be thinking about?


Priorities for me are

1. sound quality, having ripped to lossless I'm less than impressed by the ipod classic, and I've a nano that is supposed to be better but is just as bad.

2. capacity, flash would be lovely, but big is better.

3. Itunes compatablity. In a I've started so I'll finish capacity, I have my plylists set up, all that lovely album art I don't want to have to get again etc.


err that's probably it.

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