Hey all you misic/computer savy bastages...I've been staring at my wall of CD'S...Around 1000.....Also been staring at my new computer...I've been thinking about the two great taste's that taste great together ...ha ha ha......... How much of pain would it be to create a master play list of my CD'S...Yes it would take absolutely ever to load them in and most likely change them to MP3'S...I'm thinking of making like a jukebox kinda deal on the computer...Got any estimates on disk space this would take? I have the newest version of music match on my new computer...So I would probably use that...I just thought it would be cool to have seperate master playlists for the various rock styles,rap ,and techno that i have on disk..yes I listen to them all..sue me...Anyone else venture into the digital music world?

 

Depdends on how good quality you record them. Normal quality recording, it'd be 60-70 meg per CD.

What you're thinking of would work perfectly fine, I use MusicMatch jukebox myself.

 

Music match is a good tool to do just what you are saying. As far as disk space you can estimate about 1MB per minute at 128Kbit. If you go higher than that I don't know for sure. I think 192k (wich is pretty good quality v size) is about 1.3MB per minute. Anyway, Assume each CD is average 50 minutes. 50 minutes x 1000 is 50,000 minutes (duh ) 50,000 * 1.3MB is 65,000MB or 65 gig. Now, I bought a 160gig HD for $100 a while back, so HD space wouldn't be a problem with that. A new FAST computer could probably convert those CD's in a minute a piece. I don't believe Music match will do 2 CD drives, but if you could figure it out a new 2+Ghz machine could run 2 conversions at once without slowing much. It's just a matter of load, rip, switch, load, rip, switch x1000. I've only done 30 in one sitting with my machine that does a CD in 1.5-2 minutes.

Hope this helps, good luck and have fun

 

Just curious what program you guys are using to rip the CD to MP3's? Is it the music match program? If so are there options to change how much it is compressed (i.e. 128 vs 192). Does the program seem to do a good job ripping them? I know I have heard MP3's that have pops and other noises and aren't very good copies and was curious if it was caused from the CD it was made from or the program. Just looking for a good program to rip with cause I would like to do the same thing. Thanks!

 

Yeah MusicMatch has everything you'll need to rip CD's. You can specify the quality etc.

 

I use MusicMatch also and like it very much.

As for quality, 128bit is fine for many people. If you want better quality go with 192bit.

IMO anything over that and you'd better have good ears and a good system and you most likely won't notice a difference. At least I haven't.

 

You can use MusicMatch Jukebox, I have it, and I love it. For burning/ripping, though, I generally use either Roxio or Adaptec, the process to rip is a little easier with them (for me) than it is with MusicMatch. If you don't have enough space on the hard drive for all of that, I would rip and then burn all the MP3s to disc, because you can fit close to 500 songs on one cd as long as they are all in MP3 format. Good luck!

 

I currently have 1379 MP3s, at 6.65 GB.

Most of them I encode at 320, and some are 128 or 192.

It takes my computer about 2-3 minutes to encode a full CD at 320.

I usually do mine at 320 because if I ever get a decent setup for my computer, or once I upgrade the system in my car, I will probably be able to tell the difference. I can already hear the difference in 128 to 192, but my speakers are not good enough to make any difference between 192 and 320. Also, I have a 80GB hard drive so the space used isnt that big of a deal.

Depending on what size hard drive you have, I would try to encode in 320. But 192 is the minimum I would suggest.

Pickup Man:

There's no way you can put 500 MP3s on one CD. One CD only holds 700MB/80minutes of data/music (it goes by length with music. If you are storing data you can go by the size). So with an average length of 3:50 you can only fit around 15-17 songs.

 

You can get about 200 mp3s on a cdr. Believe it or not. I use windows media player alot of times to rip cd's. 192 k is pretty close to cd quality. Also Windows Media player will go online and get the track list for the album then name all the tracks.

 

15 to 17 cdda files per cdr. Mp3's can go upto about 250. Mp3 files are compressed. Remember and as for 320 bit rate. That is way over kill. You might as well be ripping them as wav files.

 

Cool...I'm running a 3Ghz P4,512 Mb ram,with a 80gb hard drive..So the hardware isn't a problem right now..It's seems like you guys like the software I have too(Musicmatch)...So now I have to find some time for mindless ripping.... I don't have a head unit in my vehicles that play Mp3's either ...Technology SUCKS !!! Ha ..Ha..Ha.. Thanks guys...

 

well if your headunit will read .mp3s sure.

 

Yeah, 500 is a bit much, I guess it is closer to about 250, but that is what I meant, just straight MP3 files, not audio files. Oddly enough, the factory changer in my truck plays the MP3 cd, but it has trouble with regular burnt cds.

 

How do you get the files on there. Just burn as a data CD not an audio?