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In Reply to: RE: Please post your experiences with music stored on a hard drive posted by bboroski on May 20, 2015 at 13:51:18
Yes, it can be a HUGE investment of time, depending on how you do the rips. I'm about 40% through my collection of about 3500 CD's right now, and what consumes the time for me is getting/correcting the meta information (album cover graphics can be surprisingly difficult to obtain sometimes), and then obeying my rule that I have to do a listening-check of at least one track from every CD I rip. This can really slow you down.
BUT the rewards can be surprisingly gratifying - and I'm not talking about the improved SQ (IMHO) and convenience once the CD's are on the hard drive. No, it's the actual process of forcing oneself to listen to CD's that you may have had on your shelf for decades and rediscovering their wonders. I can't tell you how many times I've been wowed by listening to hard drive tracks derived from CD's which had just been sitting on the shelf forgotten. Just the other day, I was checking a few tracks from Felicity Lott's 1994 Chandos recording of Strauss Orchestral Songs (volume II) and the emotion in the listening was overwhelming. It's the process of rediscovering one's own library that can be the greatest source of delight and satisfaction!
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I can't tell you how many times I've been wowed by listening to hard drive tracks derived from CD's which had just been sitting on the shelf forgotten.
Hi Chris,
At the risk of telling you something you already know, I've had great luck going to Amazon and typing the numbers under the CD's UPC bar code into the search window. I almost always find a match and can download it with a click. I listen almost exclusively to classical music, and have found some things I really didn't expect to be available by this method.
-Bob
Thanks, Bob! Yes, Amazon is one of my main sources for cover art, but I've never tried the trick of typing the numbers under the UPC bar code into the search field. Thanks for the tip!
I also use Discogs to get cover art, and, sometimes, I just use Google images. Occasionally, I prefer the cover art from the LP rather from the CD and this will sometimes take a bit longer to find. (For instance, I so much prefer the Capitol LP cover art of, say, Kempe's Tchaikovsky Fifth to the Testament CD issue (although I'm very thankful that Testament did reissue this performance). I also like to try to download a larger graphic if I can find it - certainly nothing less than 300 x 300 - but every so often I have to make do with a smaller size if the graphic itself what I need.
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