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MadBrewer
04-26-2003, 12:09 AM
With my LP collection @ over 500 + CD's, tapes, looking for help into research for a
"good, known to work well" format for archiving & organizing my complete music collection.

Format Wise;
All my analog & digital music on one
convenient machine.
I started to archive everything
on cd's w/a 400 cd changer & after awhile, notice that cd's are skipping because of getting scrached by the changer, (plus the fact that everything isn't going to fit).

In the end, I want to have "all" my music
in one place w/all the advantages of a CD changer, (group list, play all, store everything), w/cd text of artis, LP, song title, etc., w/out the disadvanges of of having to flip/change the record every 20-25 min., change cassette tapes, etc.

Organizing Wise;
AStorage/Playback Format for Achiving LP's,CDs etc. for PC's n alphabetical list of ALL bands w/titles & song tracks @ the click of a mouse.
List All, Search by Album, Song Type, Song,
Playback by; Group list, Artis, Random All Play, etc.

Yes I know the project I'm into, (all my albums alone @ 1-2 per day would be over a year),....but, the convenience is all worth it,....every LP, CD, Tape, all @ the click of a mouse,....the ability to pull a chip & plug it into a boombox, my car, whatever, (I know not every tune but,....) plus, I hear albums I haven't heard in YEARS!!!

Thanks,

Michael

melloman
04-26-2003, 09:22 AM
If you put it on computer, you can have all of it on a drive, using either .mp3 or .wma format. MP3 allows you to choose more programs, but wma format takes less space.

I have around 150 CD's worth, on my laptop and a desktop, and it takes around 10 gigs in a mix of WMA and MP3. Figure MP3's will be about 1.5 megs more to 2 megs more for similar sample rates.

My setup is networked, allowing my wife to play my music on her machine, by having a networked drive. One of my machines in the computer rom is on a tape loop on a receiver. (actually I can have any one or two of three computers hooked up to the receiver) it allows me to move it when I need to do maintenence on the computers, and i can back it up.

with my laptop, it's mobile.