why not buy a small roboter, which copies the disks to the hd, and, if =
you're really able to hear the difference between a cd and a 320bps mp3, =
store the disks as wav files?
btw: 10mbit lan is ok for audio, but not enough for video. upgrading to =
100mbit lan isn't a big thing, compared to building a cd roboter.
btw2: there must be commercial disk roboters around. pioneer already had =
one (with scsi initerface) about 10 years ago.
tino

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Koen van Leeuwen [mailto:koen@VANLEEUWEN.XS4ALL.NL]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:16 PM
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [EE:] 400+ CD changer
>
>On Wednesday 21 January 2004 17:06, B|hler, Martin wrote:
><snip>
>> so I don't see a single reason to
>> build a cd changer anymore.
>> tino
>
>My reasons:
>-No loss in quality, because you have the original
>-Easy to insert new CD's (no need to rip them)
>-Future proof, because DVD's have the same physical size but way more
>storage
>space
>-Easy burning (fill unused places with empty DVD+R)
>-You have the full bandwith needed for the application (I have a 10Mbit =
LAN
>connection, so playing divx is a bit iffy...)
>-I dont like the idea of copying 400 cd/cdrom/dvd's to a harddisk
>
>But a harddisk might be better for others..
>
>Koen
>
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