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Do you discard/ sell/ give away your CDs after you've "ripped" them

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aidanjm

Lifer
Getting sick of CD cases (and DVD cases) taking up storage space, and attracting dust. Would love to get rid of the physical, actual hard copy but:
1) what if my hard drive(s) are damaged/ infected with a virus/ whatever & I lose the music?
2) do I need to keep the original copy to be legal?
 
Put them in a CD binder, and store them in the closet... Takes away your space problem, but you still have them if necessary.
 
Don't do it. It will wear down your cd/dvd drive sooner than a geek at the strip clubs trying to hold his own.
 
I have them all in crates at my folks house. it's all in flac on a 750 GB raid 5 array.

I ran out of space though, I'm going to need a bigger array in short order.
 
Have all mine in a big, black binder thing made to store CDs. That normally gets kept in the truck but I don't think we ever use it. CDs are all ripped down to a computer running Command Cubes ( http://www.commandcubes.com ) which sends the audio to my whole house whenever I want.
 
cd binder to save space if you have that many. i was going to back them all up via FLAC or similar, but I don't have enough space. heh
 
Originally posted by: bleeb
Don't do it. It will wear down your cd/dvd drive sooner than a geek at the strip clubs trying to hold his own.
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Since new drives are ~$30, it's not really a concern. I probably listen to 99% of my music on my computer or the mp3 deck in my car.
 
Can you get car stereos that can play off a USB drive? Until I get something like that, I'll have to keep my CDs handy.
 
Throw them away,... HELL NO! Hard drives are too delicate and fragile.
And expensive vs. a burn.

Throw dicard/away,.. um... I still have boxes to MB, video card, W.o.W. box, hl2, etc. its ART to me and my space.

Edit: If you do throw them out, I'll pm you my address and shipping and handling funds for your collection, since you no longer need it.
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Getting sick of CD cases (and DVD cases) taking up storage space, and attracting dust. Would love to get rid of the physical, actual hard copy but:
1) what if my hard drive(s) are damaged/ infected with a virus/ whatever & I lose the music?
2) do I need to keep the original copy to be legal?
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That's stupid.
 
Originally posted by: blazerazor
If you do throw them out, I'll pm you my address and shipping and handling funds for your collection, since you no longer need it.
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You don't know what type of music I have, tho
 
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Getting sick of CD cases (and DVD cases) taking up storage space, and attracting dust. Would love to get rid of the physical, actual hard copy but:
1) what if my hard drive(s) are damaged/ infected with a virus/ whatever & I lose the music?
2) do I need to keep the original copy to be legal?
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That's stupid.
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It reflects a psychological need of mine, which is to be unencumbered by excessive amounts of possessions
 
Yes i keep my cds because harddrives can fail. The bookshelf does suck. Right now I am entertaining the idea of those 508 cd sleeve binder things.
 
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