My computer (AMD 750) will encode a complete album from CD to 192kbs Mp3 in around 2-3 minutes so it doesnt really take a long time to do quite a few albums if you keep on top of it. With a PC based mp3 player you've also got the advantage that when you've filled a hard drive you can just put another one in (up to a limit) or use external USB hard drives to get another couple of hundred gigs of storage. This is the way I've gone and have put all my original cd's onto hard drive and play them off there - the originals have been "archived" in the attic in case they are needed again. Dom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koen van Leeuwen" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [EE:] 400+ CD changer > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 16:36, Dominic Stratten wrote: > > With technologies today and hard drives costing around 60ukp for a 120gb > > drive you'd be best hiding an old computer in the attic and encoding your > > cd's as MP3 files. > Well, 60% of it is already MP3, and in the future there will be DVD(rom/ > ram)'s, data rate could become a problem... > And then, copying 400 disks to a harddisk is also a nice job for a robot... > (but, indeed, that one is easier) > > Koen > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu