I'm in the process of loading ALL my music CDs onto my music player.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Ask me anything!

[mainegreen]

1. How many CDs?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Looks like about 200-250, judging from counting a few stacks.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. It IS a hard-disk based one, right? An iPod perhaps? -nt

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Yeh it's a gigantic iPod which will be obsolete in 8 months, no doubt.

[Initech]

5. Have fun!

It took at least a week and a half to do my collection!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. The CDs are warm when they come out, and the CD drive occasionally makes

a scary rattling noise for a second which then goes away.

I think I need to give it a break after the next 10 or so, LOL.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. The process is real slow

when you convert the old vinyl to CD's so you can load them to the ipod.

But it's worth the effort.

[wain]

8. Warning. I recently maxed out my 80gig video iPod

I am now getting a lot of skipping caused by excessive HD accesses. I loaded up with classical music in AIFF format (uncompressed). Result is cache cannot keep up with output. iPod has anti skip error correction for compressed formats (ACC, MP3, WAV). I am going to back off to compressed format and hope to eliminate skipping. Although sound quality will suffer, it's not that I'm pumping the sound into high-end speakers from my iPod. I'll keep a separate iTunes library for that.

[Pierre.Suave]

9. I find that...

for what I use the iPod for, absolute quality is not necessary so I compress my music to 192kbs AAC format.

if I want to be snobby, and audiophilish, I get out the CD and put it in the CD player, and listen to it through the stereo.

After all, it would be a SHAME to listen to compresses music through this stereo and these speakers. There is a very noticeable quality loss.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Yeah I'm generally using it at work, where I'm playing it through low rent

speakers or stereos at various locations.

It's not an audiophile type of application.

[wain]

11. thanks

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