If access time isn't that much of an issue (perhaps you fetch the next CD while listening to the one before it)... 1: A turntable with several spindle rods on it (like CD cakebox rods) 2: An access arm that picks up the top CD on the stack (perhaps via vacuum?) 3: Move CDs from spindle to spindle until you get to the one you want 4: Put CD in drive Bob Ammerman RAm Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominic Stratten" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [EE:] 400+ CD changer > 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 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu