I spent a large part of the weekend cleaning things. While Michele cleaned the girls room, I cleaned the linen closet on Saturday. On Sunday I cleaned the garage and finally go a chance to sort out our CD collection in hopes of getting them all ripped.
After sorting out things that didn’t need to get ripped, putting scattered CDs back in the jewel cases, I got a final total of what I want to rip. 376 CDs. There are three rows of 100 and the rest add up to 76. Much bigger than I thought.
I began to wonder if the cost was really worth it and considered what it would take to do it myself. I did a few tests and found that it takes about 10 minutes to rip a CD and that if you do 6 an hour, you are doing good.
Doing the math 376 CD / 6 CD/hr = 62.66 hrs to rip them all.
Let’s say I can spend 4 hrs/night doing ripping, it will take 62.66 hrs / 4hrs/night = 16 nights to rip them.
Half a month? Geez. At $6/hr this is quite a low paying job.
So I’m still torn. I want all the CDs ripped, but the cost to send it to RipDigital is high. On the other hand, spending more than two weeks ripping CDs for hours at a time is a pain as well.
What do you, loyal Cruft readers, think I should do?
I’d just rip them myself. I’m online 3-4 hours every night anyway, might as well do something productive. Spend the $350 you save on a new iPod.
Rip them yourself. Do a few a night on a secondary system while you fart around online or in between menial household chores. I usually pop in a CD to rip and then start a load of laundry, change CDs, rip, chase children into bath tub….etc. And yes get the iPod!
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Rip a few this week, a few next week, etc. Make it a six-month project rather than a 16-day obsession.
Do it yourself. If it were something you couldn’t do yourself, I could see the value of crating up all your CDs and sending them off. Think of it as another notch on your experience belt. And who says you have to do it in 16 consecutive nights? Spread it out over several months. Use the money you’ve saved on something else.
I would have Rip digital do it. 1. you get that instantaneous fix, 2. more time to spend with the family, instead of a chore of ripping cds. 3. Use your freetime to cultivate your pallette of scotches, bourbones, port wines and good dark beers.
I’ll do it for you!
I’ll even drive my ass over to Pasadena (from Hollywood) and pick em all up. Rip ’em however you like em and drive them back. Seriously. It would take me a couple of days, but I’d only charge you 70% of what ripdigital would (and no shipping costs!) I’m at home writing on the computer all day anyway…
Hell, pay me in scotch and I’ll do it.
Do it yourself, dope….
…or put your two girls to work on the job! Turn them into entrepreneurs and let them make a quarter per CD or something like that. I say it’s time you started exploiting your in-house labor resources!
I hope you are not doing something illegal, immoral or unethical.
Are you?
If I were you, I’d just pop one in while I was on the computer browsing the web and such… unless you’re in THAT much of a hurry to get them all encoded. 🙂
I did notice the Cake Comfort Eagle CD on top of one pile and the Rolling Stones Rewind on top of another.
Hmm. There’s Dre. Quite the varied taste in music. 🙂
If it takes you 10 minutes to rip a CD, there is something wrong. I just did some tests to see how long it takes for me. I started the timer when I hit the eject button to open the CD tray, and stopped when all the songs were safely imported into my library and the CD was removed. I am using iTunes on Mac OS 10.3.2, dual 1.42 MHz. I tried different import settings, (including 224khz .mp3). There was no noticable difference whether I was only ripping CDs, or doing it in the background while websurfing and watching movie trailers.
Duran Duran: Rio (shut up)
9 songs, 42.5 minutes, ripped in 3:48 (11x)
Bob Seger: Greatest Hits
14 songs, 62.5 minutes, ripped in 4:37 (13x)
Moby: Play
18 songs, 63 minutes, ripped in 4:07 (15x)
Primitive Radio Gods: Rocket
10 songs, 46.3 minutes, ripped in 3:13 (14x)
Could I maintain a constant rate of >15 CDs an hour? No, but you should certainly be able to do much better than 1 every 10 minutes.
Errr… I mean 1.42 GIGAhertz.. I know Macs are behind in the clock speed race, but not THAT far behind!
I must be that Macs are better than PCs…
For some applications they certainly are.
All real geeks should own a PC, an Apple and a Linux box (at least one each.)
I’m doing the same thing. It’s a low-grade project that I work on a few CDs at a time. In the end it will be worth it.
dude, what are you still doing with jewel cases? That’s so 90’s.