Posted on 09/18/2005 7:44:51 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I am giving up CDs. Within the next several months, I expect most of my family's CDs will be converted for playing on our iPods and personal computers. The actual CDs will either be sold or given away. As more people connect their digital music players to their home stereos and car stereos, they realize they have no use for the racks of CDs taking up space in their homes. If you no longer play CDs, why keep them? That is the conclusion my wife and I reached, and that is why I am completing the arduous process of moving the music to more compact computer storage from the CDs.
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That's where an interesting question pops in. If you bought a license to the music, then the medium is irrelevant -- you bought a license and can listen to it. So you still have that right if the medium is destroyed. But they don't want you replacing music where the medium was destroyed without buying another license. The copyright cartel likes to have it both ways as far as restrictions on the consumer are concerned: you only bought a license, and you only bought the medium.
Or switch iTunes to use Apple Lossless.
To connect your iPod to your stereo, you can buy a cable that has an headphone plug on one end and stereo RCA connectors on the other. (You need an empty set of inputs on your receiver.)
Car stereos are a little trickier. If you are lucky, your car stereo has auxiliary input; in that case, you can buy a suitable cable to connect the iPod to the car stereo. (I have a low-end Alpine stereo; it has auxiliary input. It had to be connected to the back of the head unit, which required pulling the head unit out, plugging the cable in, and snaking the cable out behind the dash.) If you do not have a car stereo with auxiliary input, you can try to use one of those little FM-radio transmitters that plug into the iPod. You have to look for a clear frequency band to transmit on. I didn't have much luck with this, the sound suffered from interference and static. This works better in rural areas where there are fewer FM stations.
For many iPod users that's a step backwards, since they're already using the superior AAC (MPEG 4 audio). But if you got a 60GB, just encode into Apple Lossless and you'll never have to worry about quality again.
This is where "fair use" comes in, allowing you to make archival copies in case the originals are destroyed. When my kid is old enough to be allowed to put DVDs or CDs into the player by himself, I guarantee you it will be with a copy, not an original, just in case it gets scratched or otherwise damaged.
You're not alone. I have so many songs in my head I can keep sing to myslef all day long without buying the latest gadget (for now).
Tech question for you. I have approximately 500 cd's. What size memory do I need if I want to put all of it on an iPod or other mp3 player?
Do you figure 11 songs per cd? Just curious.
Didn't you notice the Nano? The next new thing will be the next-generation iPod.
And you still won't have the good sense to buy one, will you?
At a rough estimate of 50MB (compressed) per CD, that would require 25GB of storage space, give or take.
Don't own an Ipod yet, but would never trust a device to hold info without losing it. Plus, I'm a little on the Luddite side. I think tapes are safer than dvds, although I own both. Think vinyl is safer than cds, though have bunches of both.
DVD's and Cd are always getting scratched or wore out on the painted side. Sometimes it looks like the durn thing just rots or something. Never lost a vinyl. Only had one tape wear out and it was a cheapo kid cartoon one.
My fear of Ipod is that the thing would crash and blammo, there goes the collection. Kinda like my durn cell phones that last about a year and go kaputski.
parsy, the skeptical.
OTOH, the copyright cartel has ensured that the tools needed to fair-use copy DVDs is illegal.
OMG, I'm not the only one.
My wife accuses me of having a total recall for music, which is almost true - I have excellent relative pitch but don't have perfect pitch. Oh well. :|
I have a friend who stubbornly insists that he won't switch from CDs to an iPod. He has to say this because he literally has spent thousands of dollars over the years indiscriminately collecting CDs. That collection used to be something he could brag about, but now it's just an embarrassing testament to his financial dipshittedness.
They're doing a lousy job of it... you can download programs like DVDShrink straight off the web.
You can use your illusion -
Let it take you where it may
We live and learn and then sometimes it's best to walk away
Me I'm just here hangin' on
It's my only place to stay
At least for now anyway
I've worked too hard for my illusions
Just to throw them all away
From those great poets of our time, Guns n' Roses.....
Cool, thanks. I didn't know if I needed a 40gig mp3 player or what. Getting by on 25gb would be sweet.
People who like Apple products are not nearly as weird as the handful of folks that feel somehow threatened by the iPod's popularity. There are some posters that seem to seek out Mac-related threads just so they can get whipped up into a hysterical tizzy against all things Mac. What's the point?
Remember to allow for some extra space for the player's operating system and for playlist storage. Also, leave some room for expansion. If you have 25GB now, a 40GB device might not be a bad choice.
Good point.
Hell, I can't afford one anyway, I was just curious. :)
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