I have about 600 CDs that I would love to store somewhere accessable. I've been told that the best way to do this is to load them on ITunes and send them off to say and external drive from my laptop. Does that sound right? Is there a better way? Any particually good brand, connectivity of external hardrives? Thanks in advance as always! Chris
Don't need iTunes, just use Audiograbber to rip the CD, and store them in portable harddrive. Since you have 600 CDs, a 100gb harddrive would give you enough space to store the music at good quality rates.
Thanks Legend! Is Audiograbber free sorftware? Can I then listen, import, etc., those music files into ITunes? Thanks again! Chris
would audiograbber rip my cds faster by any chance? for some reason when i'm ripping cds onto itunes, it goes really slow. like 5x or slower, is that itunes or is that my cd drive?
That's pretty much what I do. I have about 1,000 albums on my 500 gig external hard drive connected to my laptop. I have an iPod so I use iTunes. I have a lot of other stuff on the drive too and I still have about 350 gigs free.
I believe iTunes loads it into it's own library, leaving your mp3s on their original files. So you would be free to move those mp3s into an external for backup/storage purposes. I'd imagine most audio library programs do the same thing. It's good to have the external/backup regardless.
