when i make the final move to ottawa, i'll be in a condo that will
have noticeably less space than where i am now so i don't want to
waste any of that with CDs out on display in CD racks. ergo, and
predictably, i want to start the process of computerizing the entire
collection, then deciding how i want to set things up to play them.
(always wanted to do this, just never had sufficient incentive.)
i haven't decided on the final selection and playing technology but
i would like to start just encoding them, little by little, to a
massive external hard drive (a couple terabytes is $100 these days at
best buy). what's a safe strategy i can use to start copying them to
disk so that, no matter what i choose to do later, i won't have to
redo all that work?
my first thought is to simply use something like rhythmbox and save
everything in FLAC format (yes, that will take way more room but, what
the heck, hard drives are cheap these days). and later, if i want, i
can always use a script or some other utility to encode them all to
ogg format.
also, since it would be nice to be able to play tunes from any
laptop in the place, i was thinking of dropping the hard drive on the
USB port of the wireless router, and making it accessible both from my
linux systems and from my girlfriend's powerbook.
suggestions? in short, i just want to start the tedious process of
copying all that music to a hard drive, while not having to decide
just yet how i'm going to finish the setup later.
rday
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