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iPod vs CD player
Lately I've been digging in my CD collection, mainly removing regular plastic cases to make room for more (or rather, vainly attempt to make everything fit in my storage boxes). Doing so has made me want to listen to a lot of stuff.
For the last few years I've been listening to music mostly on my iPod during my daily commute. While I love my iPod as it lets me carry thousands of songs, it lacks the CD player's spontaneity that lets me pick a few CDs when I'm out the door and start listening a minute later. 10 minutes to rip a CD (my recently bought drive rips at 8x, already much faster than my previous one) is too long when I can't plan ahead what I want to listen to.
What I really need is a way to stop wasting time ripping.
CDs are heavy and changing CDs in a crowded train or while walking is near impossible, but is the iPod's freedom really an illusion until CD ripping is made unnecessary somehow? Especially to someone like me who doesn't care for a shuffle mode?
Posted on October 11, 2005 at 10:50 | Tweet
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Configure iTunes to rip the disk on insert then eject after, put a pile of unripped disks on one side and while doing other things jockey the disks one after another.
It does take a long time, I probably got through 20 or 30 before giving up, but after a couple of days / weeks you will make a sizeable dent in your collection.
Posted by Jeremy on October 11, 2005 at 13:59
I spent a few days last christmas vacation watching a whole pile of videos and at the same time ripping hundreds of CDs. Just pile them up and do them one by one and pretty soon you'll be finished. I got half way thru mine before I realized I ripped them in .m4a (itunes) and had to redo them in .mp3
After than I took all my CDs (only about 200) and sold them at Disk Union. I got about 90,000yen for the bunch which I thought was pretty good.
Since then I have not bought a single CD and my room has less clutter.
Posted by Roy on October 11, 2005 at 14:15
Seems like ripping everything is my only way out.
Sounds like you got a good price Roy! I'm quite the collector type and could hardly part with most of my precious CDs...
Posted by Patrick on October 11, 2005 at 15:04
I hate CD players for the only reason that I know I will eventually break my CDs or scratch them beyond repair or get them stolen.
You could also, theorhetically, just download the album after you buy it, but that entails a whole other sort of legwork I doubt you'd want to look in to. Or just buy your albums through digital music services like iTunes Store or Yahoo! Music.
Posted by John on October 11, 2005 at 15:19
Good point that CD players aren't good for your CDs' health. I think I'll prefer to rip for that reason at least.
I'd kind of like to buy my music online and say goodbye to CDs, but I like record shops and to have something to actually hold for my money, and also packaging and printed artwork.
So I guess I'll stick to ripping my daily music despite the lag it induces.
Posted by Patrick on October 11, 2005 at 15:38
That's what I do as well, I been ripping my collection to .mp3 in my spare time (using EAC with the LAME encoder), now I only have about another 50 or so CDs to go.
What I've also noticed in gathering my CDs to put in my "to rip" pile, I have probably around 100-150 CDs I never want to hear again but don't even want to go through the trouble of getting rid of them...
Posted by Jon on October 12, 2005 at 03:39
>I'm quite the collector type and could hardly part with most of my precious CDs...
I know how you feel. I'm like this with books and DVDs. There were some CDs that I didn't want to part with but I just took the plunge and sold them ALL. In a way I felt very liberated. I was free from ever buying a CD for the rest of my life. Music is not as big a part of my life as it is with you so I can understand if this were impossible.
Posted by Roy on October 12, 2005 at 17:24
When I get back to england and put my hands on my CD collection again I will begin re-ripping the disks into the apple lossless codec, when I started I only had an 8 gig hard drive so 128k mp3 was the way to go, later I moved to a 20gig disk and started ripping in 192k, more recently I started using aac at 256k but with my 400 gig drive I calculated that all my tracks could fit easily in lossless format and I would never need handle my CDs again. All the disks I have here with me are already re-imported.
That's just me though.
Posted by Jeremy on October 13, 2005 at 13:31
hey you sound cute... lol
Posted by Mai on October 26, 2005 at 02:51
its alot easier to use mp3 players if you only like a few songs on an album you can get only those!
Posted by Tara on December 8, 2005 at 09:43
I think that ipods out do cd's by a lot. Personally, you could listen to anything, and have a much more variety at your finger tips.
Posted by Jp on January 25, 2006 at 05:32
umm CDS are so much better!!!!!!!!!!!
i hate ipods!!!!!!
Posted by i dont know on February 2, 2006 at 02:52
i have an ipod but it annoys me most of the time! i prefer cd's just because there something more physical even if that sounds weird. i prefer looking thru a stack of cd's, finding the one i want, putting it in my cd player and going. other then scrolling a little wheel around on a 4 inch screen and even then i cant play the ipod in most cars unless i'm carrying a cord or something but with cd's you just slip them in and play where ever. and i buy too much cd's its a pain to import them all the time. buying cd's online? most stuff i buy isnt in the itunes store.
Posted by some guy on May 13, 2007 at 11:42
Ipods are way better than tons of CD's and it is smaller to carry around even for the video ipods so stop complaining! I threw out my (smallish) CD player when i got my ipod and i feel like a large amount of space was freed.
Posted by untitled on July 3, 2007 at 08:04
true cds are messy its hard to carry 20-50 cds around u its better havin an i pod all in 1
Posted by Muritza on December 12, 2007 at 08:23
I love CD and iPod as well.
When I am out I can freely enjoy music with iPod.
When I am at home I would like to appreciate beautiful songs on my Sony CD Player.
Posted by Wayne23 on June 23, 2008 at 16:23
i love my ipod and its much easier to lug around than my cd player.
Posted by Hannah on December 7, 2009 at 03:24