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Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 4, 2011 9:06:53 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm in the midst of ripping mine while I get ready to move in the spring. I'm on my third small (1.5 cubic foot) moving box full. Once they get ripped, they go in a box. There is no flash-based iPod that will handle my collection. My daily activities consist of eating, sleeping, and ripping. Retirees don't have to go to work, they can make up their own and it all pays the same. What I get rid of, I don't have to pay to move. I found one CD with severe bit rot. The printing on the label side ate through the clear coating and darkened the data side. Completely unplayable. The drive on my computer tried about a dozen times and spit it out. I thought at first it was upside down but one side worked about as well as the other.

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I'm in the midst of ripping mine while I get ready to move in the spring. I'm on my third small (1.5 cubic foot) moving box full. Once they get ripped, they go in a box.

There is no flash-based iPod that will handle my collection.

My daily activities consist of eating, sleeping, and ripping. Retirees don't have to go to work, they can make up their own and it all pays the same. What I get rid of, I don't have to pay to move.

I found one CD with severe bit rot. The printing on the label side ate through the clear coating and darkened the data side. Completely unplayable. The drive on my computer tried about a dozen times and spit it out. I thought at first it was upside down but one side worked about as well as the other.

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Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2013 4:49:37 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I decided to put my spring vacation on hold (may do it next month but sometime my high school will be having its 40th class reunion). I bought and ripped the Cracker Barrel Special Edition of Brad Paisley's Wheelhouse. They should have set the "compilation" flag on it (iTunes) but they didn't. And one physical CD turned into six (IIRC) entries that I had to gather together manually.
rocknvox All-Star Author Bakersfield Posts:679 Points:137,775 Joined:Nov 2012	Message Posted: Apr 15, 2013 2:49:00 PM Ignore rocknvox Report Abuse No I haven't but if I ever do I'll be sure to let you know. I can tell I should tell you because you're a very nice person.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Apr 9, 2013 3:00:38 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse Not going to rip anything for a while, I'm going on my spring vacation and I suspect I'll spend the next two days getting ready to go.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Mar 24, 2013 7:40:43 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Mar 1, 2013 4:29:09 PM, I wrote: >I used up most of my empty jewel cases. I"ve got another box of empty jewel cases, but I don't know where it is. The movers put it in a box during my October 2012 move, and most of that hasn't been gone through yet. I'm busy ripping CDs from the October 2009 move when I rip CDs. It's more fun to rip CDs and listen to music that you haven't listened to for a while than it is anything else you can do related to unpacking. I'm listening to a ripped Time-LIfe CD of 1968's greatest hits (AM Gold: 1968) right now. [Edited by: Sneakers55 at 3/24/2013 10:42:04 PM EST]
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Mar 23, 2013 12:25:36 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I went through the individual artists and added missing albums to my iTunes library from the Windows backup. Now, I have to go through the compilation CDs. I think most of them didn't get lost. I've bought five CDs, ripped them, and listened to the rips (some more than once). My Carbonite backup of the "Inactive Windows Computer" will be available to 2017.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Mar 1, 2013 2:29:09 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm done with the "rip first" stuff from box #8 and part of box #9 along with the broken jewel cases that I located. I used up most of my empty jewel cases.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Feb 26, 2013 3:52:02 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm two-thirds through with box #8 of 9, but then I have placed some CDs from box #9 in the mix.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Feb 24, 2013 2:43:33 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm mostly done with replacing the cracked jewel cases, and now I'm back to ripping. One item in my collection was very interesting: a Japanese import of Bread's "Baby I'm-A Want You." It's labeled in both languages. They had the Japanese list price as part of the wrapping - 2400 yen. That's $25.69 at current exchange rates, but it cost me considerably less a number of years ago!
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Feb 24, 2013 2:11:45 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse Time Machine (a function on Macs that backs up your internal hard disk on an external hard drive) was complaining that I hadn't backed up in eleven days. So, off to the dining room table. It's not used for dining; it's used to hold paperwork, my Apple Thunderbolt Display, my uninterruptible power supply, my inkjet all-in-one, and my external hard drive. That gets me back to where I can back up to an external hard drive (I also use Carbonite online backup), I can scan missing cover art, and I can enjoy a huge screen. I've spent the afternoon replacing cracked jewel cases (I have a large supply of empty jewel cases, largely from getting software to beta test from various software companies that shall remain nameless) with fresh ones and ripping what was not yet ripped. I've filled up another stack in a box.
scottmccarrick All-Star Author Boston Posts:761 Points:136,550 Joined:Dec 2012	Message Posted: Feb 24, 2013 2:45:57 AM Ignore scottmccarrick Report Abuse nope. sold all mine and i torrent FLACs
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Feb 23, 2013 3:02:04 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse When I transitioned my iTunes from Windows from Mac OS X, I had a batch of albums go missing in the process. I was dual-booting a Mac, and I saved the files. Somehow, some of my albums disappeared in the process of saving them to an external hard drive, wiping the Windows partition, expanding Mac OS X to take the whole disk, and restoring them to the hard drive. I had the Windows partition backed up on Carbonite, but their restore software won't let you cross platforms. I recently had looked through the backed-up Windows files and discovered you could pull individual files and folders across platforms with Carbonite's Web interface. I suddenly realized that I ought to try it with my missing music files. I pulled them across and then I was able to add them to iTunes. They played just fine. So, I added a lot of albums today!
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Feb 12, 2013 2:56:10 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Feb 9, 2013 2:34:41 PM, DDRMixer wrote: >For the most part they are ripped. Now, if they are all label correctly >on my computer is a different story since Microsoft can't detect the >correct listings for my imports a lot of the time. I do mine on Apple iTunes (being a total fruit orchard around here). They use Gracenote. Sometimes, they will offer foreign-language titles for my Musical Heritage Society CDs. Occasionally, you'll come up with a disc where Gracenote draws a total blank. I type in the track names and upload them to Gracenote, so the next time they see that disc somebody else will get track names.
DDRMixer Rookie Author Flint Posts:12 Points:104,995 Joined:Oct 2011	Message Posted: Feb 9, 2013 12:34:41 PM Ignore DDRMixer Report Abuse For the most part they are ripped. Now, if they are all label correctly on my computer is a different story since Microsoft can't detect the correct listings for my imports a lot of the time. Last few CDs I bought are not ripped.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Feb 7, 2013 4:02:48 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I haven't done any ripping in several days. Never fear, I've found other things to keep me busy. Like my income taxes. I've also got the computer undocked from the docking station so I can't scan missing cover art right now. [Edited by: Sneakers55 at 2/7/2013 7:11:00 PM EST]
B5Quattro Sophomore Author Akron Posts:139 Points:107,725 Joined:Aug 2012	Message Posted: Jan 21, 2013 5:38:40 PM Ignore B5Quattro Report Abuse all 200+ CD , took a while
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 21, 2013 2:44:14 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I was doing some sorting in the library/home office room (nearly full of boxes, but I'm working on it) and I discovered that I had a ninth 1.5 cubic foot box full of CDs that I did not know about it. I knew there were other CDs that I had not yet ripped, but I didn't know about the ninth box. I opened the box, went through the top of it, and discovered my "Songs for Liquid Days" by Philip Glass. I'm not sure whether I'm going to rush to listen to it because it's weird.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 14, 2013 4:43:17 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I have ripped one-third of box #8 of 8.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 13, 2013 9:17:29 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I know there are other CDs out there in my collection of boxes. Just tried to put a CD on my Amazon wish list. Turned out that I had already purchased it from Amazon in 2011. I've also got two CDs of The Turtles Greatest Hits. They each have twenty tracks. Only fifteen of the tracks are in common between the two discs. In other words, each disc has five unique tracks.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 12, 2013 11:12:17 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I took the contents of box #8 and divided them into two categories: rip first and rip second. The discs in the "rip first" pile do things like complete box sets and themed collections. The discs in the "rip second" pile don't fit into that category. I'm wondering if there is another box with CDs in it because I haven't found "Songs for Liquid Days" by Philip Glass and that's something I knew I had.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 3:55:57 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I have ripped one-sixth of box #8 of 8.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 9, 2013 4:49:44 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I have found four CD-3s. You can't load them on a slot-loading CD drive. On the other hand, a number of Windows laptops have a spring-loaded center post that can take a CD-3 or a CD-5 either one. I find the spring-loaded center post hard to load. The slot-loader is easier to use but it's limited to CD-5s.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 9, 2013 8:55:34 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I just found box #8 of 8. I've just started ripping its contents. I looked through the top dozen or so CDs in the box and it looks like there are some good things in it. My BFF thinks I have a lot of CDs. On the other hand, I have a lot of everything.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jan 7, 2013 10:03:28 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm able to put all my music at 192 Kbps, excluding the holiday music, on a 160 GB iPod Classic with almost 19 GB to spare. [Edited by: Sneakers55 at 1/7/2013 1:09:47 PM EST]
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2012 2:04:31 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Jun 29, 2011 9:00:38 PM, I wrote: >Ripped the Creedence Clearwater Revival 6-CD box set about three hours ago. I lost the files on the hard drive and I had to rip them again. Now, I have backups on both a Time Machine (external hard drive plugged into my Mac) and Carbonite (backup to the cloud). All data files are stored three different places, one of them offsite.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2012 1:40:38 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I found another box of CDs. This one is 100% ripped so far, but I scanned in some missing cover art.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 31, 2012 8:09:11 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I finished off the box full of CDs that had partially been ripped and some non-CD items. I ended up with two-thirds of a small moving box full of CDs. I also ended out with 163.32 GB of music, mostly at 192 Kbps. That's a lot of data of any kind! When you buy your first CD player Labor Day weekend 1983, and every week or two you go out and buy a CD or two, you can get a pretty good collection of music! (I also bought some foreign imports. Of American golden oldie music. Go figure. On the German imports, I had to go to the Post Office and pick them up in person as German insured mail became registered mail in the USPS system. They had to go get my CD out of their Post Office vault!) [Edited by: Sneakers55 at 12/31/2012 11:15:44 AM EST]
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 29, 2012 6:43:52 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I have the small moving box half filled with CDs. I also have 162.49 GB of music at 192 Kbps. I'll have to go to 128 Kbps to get it all to fit on an iPod Classic!
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 28, 2012 6:35:44 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse The box that had an unknown number of things that hadn't been ripped had some non-CD items in it, some data discs, some CDs that hadn't been ripped, and some CDs that had already been ripped. I would estimate that 30% of them had to be ripped. I'm stacking them up the audio CDs that are in my music library in a small moving box, and it's one-third filled.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 26, 2012 12:56:15 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse Box seven has been completely refilled. Now, I'm going through another box that contains an unknown number of things that have not been ripped. If it's already been ripped, that will go fast.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 8, 2012 3:35:05 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse Five-sixths done with box seven.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 7, 2012 4:45:11 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I took a break away from the ripping to update the iPod Classic in the living room receiver dock. A 160 GB iPod Classic has 148.87 GB capacity when formatted. I have 23.37 GB free with my collection going over at 192 Kbps. I currently have 20832 tracks in my iTunes library.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 7, 2012 1:13:56 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Aug 10, 2011 6:47:01 PM, I wrote: >The ripping of discs 1, 2, and 4 of a box set indicates you have >disc 3 somewhere! I'm getting the box sets slowly but surely put back together, at least in the iTunes library.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 7, 2012 12:14:48 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse Two-thirds done with box seven of eight or probably a ninth box by the time I'm done. (I, believe it or not, find CDs mixed in with books and in clothes baskets. I have a really severe pack rat problem.) [Edited by: Sneakers55 at 12/7/2012 3:15:40 PM EST]
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 2, 2012 1:10:23 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm half done with box seven of eight. On the other hand, given the number of CDs I have found not in a moving box, there's probably enough to start a ninth. [Edited by: Sneakers55 at 12/2/2012 4:11:32 PM EST]
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Nov 29, 2012 8:51:07 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm a third plus four CDs done with box #7 of 8.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Nov 28, 2012 7:46:51 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I'm about one-quarter done with box #7.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Nov 21, 2012 3:38:48 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I decided to start ripping box #7 as it is unpacking boxes, after all. I'm about a twelfth done with it.
dj5 Champion Author Columbus Posts:13,845 Points:2,712,060 Joined:Oct 2005	Message Posted: Nov 19, 2012 4:30:45 PM Ignore dj5 Report Abuse No still working.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Nov 13, 2012 2:36:20 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Aug 10, 2011 6:47:01 PM, I wrote: >Then, I know there are more in the boxes yet to be unpacked that >may not get unpacked before we change Presidents at the rate I'm >going. Barring unexpected events, I have until 2017 to finish unpacking and ripping the last two boxes.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Nov 13, 2012 2:22:31 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I found and ripped three more CDs. My aged mother always gets concerned when I say I find CDs around the house. When you say "CD" to her, she thinks of a certificate of deposit. The last time I got a paper certificate was in the last millennium. I've bought certificates of deposit since then but always logged as a line entry on a bank statement.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Nov 9, 2012 10:25:50 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I found a box of unripped CDs, they got set aside. I then ripped all the ones that came out of other boxes and I put them into a box with CDs I had previously ripped.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Oct 16, 2012 7:53:12 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Oct 2, 2012 4:08:24 PM, ask DNA wrote: >Haha! I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but... >Never made through my entire music room. Lost track and gave up. I moved and I'm still unpacking, not that I put a high priority on unpacking as I moved over everything I need. (OK, I bought some new furniture but I needed some, at least I'm using it a lot.) When I find the boxes with the CDs I haven't ripped, I'll put them in the corner and get to them eventually. [Edited by: Sneakers55 at 10/16/2012 10:56:00 PM EST]
ask DNA Sophomore Author Regina Posts:108 Points:94,080 Joined:May 2008	Message Posted: Oct 2, 2012 2:08:24 PM Ignore ask DNA Report Abuse Haha! I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but... Never made through my entire music room. Lost track and gave up. This is maybe half of the library. Maybe. Took me years to rip. Just couldn't handle it anymore. I keep joking that I'll pay some student to finish it for me, but everyone knows I'll never actually do it. Winamp tells me: 5944 artists 6293 albums 46109 tracks 139 days + 16:02:00 214.25 GB Then there's the record collection (much smaller - maybe 300 - 400). [Edited by: ask DNA at 10/2/2012 5:13:14 PM EST]
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Sep 24, 2012 9:42:15 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Sep 18, 2012 9:24:36 AM, Tinky1973 wrote: >I've got about 50% of my 750+ CD collection done. It's a slow process >when one has a young kids to take care of at the same time. It's a slower process when the CD's are like my CD's and nobody has ripped them before. Gracenote ends up pulling blanks on the track titles. Apple also pulls blanks on the cover art. I upload the track names to Gracenote but there's no capability on iTunes to upload cover art. Maybe I should propose that to Apple as a new capability to add to iTunes.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Sep 23, 2012 10:55:23 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I ripped four more CDs yesterday. I ended out keying in the track names for an unidentified CD and uploading them to Gracenote.
Tinky1973 Champion Author Victoria Posts:1,675 Points:306,705 Joined:Jun 2012	Message Posted: Sep 18, 2012 7:24:36 AM Ignore Tinky1973 Report Abuse I've got about 50% of my 750+ CD collection done. It's a slow process when one has a young kids to take care of at the same time.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Sep 17, 2012 1:55:34 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I demonstrated to my BFF how to rip CDs on her iMac. She has an iTunes library of two whole CDs.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Aug 24, 2012 8:25:54 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse On Apr 2, 2012 6:51:56 AM, I wrote: >I still haven't unpacked the moving boxes from the move >that isn't going to occur. Plans have changed, I'm moving but within the same Houston suburb. I was thinking at one time I was going to move from Texas to Missouri.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,310 Points:2,144,130 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jun 26, 2012 4:44:05 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I ripped eight more CD's, some of them from two-CD sets. All of them were found in a clothes basket full of stuff that needed to be sorted. What I'm finding is stuff to trash, stuff to go through the shredder, promotional ink pens that just as well be used for writing (I used to send planning books to the family until everyone but Mom went to PDAs and computers, thereby taking away something they could use and I could give them as a gift - and causing me to receive samples of ink pens I could buy), and an occasional CD box.
noblegiant Champion Author Philadelphia Posts:2,070 Points:943,320 Joined:Nov 2007	Message Posted: May 28, 2012 9:13:44 PM Ignore noblegiant Report Abuse Yes I Either Coverted From LP Analog To MP3 Then Ripped And Sold The Bought CD's