Subject: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC

Subject: Subject: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 05:53 PM

Another cached thread.

Subject: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 09:07 AM

Phew! I now have ALL my CDs on a single SDHC card that I can plug into my car's music system. 374 of them, taking up just over 20 Gb of space on the 32 Gb card, leaving space I estimate for another 180 or so albums!

Backed up onto a second card and an external HDD.

Now all that remains is for me to get 200+ vinyl albums into digital format, which I suspect will be a *much* bigger task :-)

Don't think I'll bother with the singles.

So now my driving will be subject to the distraction of too much choice in music selection.

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Subject: RE: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 09:12 AM

What file format did you use?

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Subject: RE: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 09:31 AM

Various: a mixture of wav, wma and mp3 depending on what the original CD was recorded with. All good enough for car listening, which is what I wanted it for.

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Subject: RE: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: John P
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 09:35 AM

I recently finished putting all my albums onto an iPod (via iTunes, backed up to an external drive). I play it through my car's radio. According to iTunes, I can have non-stop music for more than 19 days if I want. I enjoy listening to all 7000+ songs in alphabetical order instead of by album or artist. It makes for an eclectic mix -- I have large collections of some rather disparate music genres, so some interesting juxtapositions come up. Also little mini-concerts, like five versions of John Barleycorn in a row, or an hour of traditional French music when I get to the L section.

Rob, I started digitizing all my LPs a few years ago. I finally finished, but only after giving up on digitizing albums that I can get on CD. I still had around 100 that never made it to CD. It is a time-consuming task, especially if you want the digital versions to be divided up into individual songs instead of just having the whole album as one file. Worth the effort, though.

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Subject: RE: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 03:45 PM

My media storage of choice is a flash drive. I bought a 16 GB flash drive yesterday for $6.99 US, and I think I'll dedicate that drive to Scottish music. My 2012 Honda Civic will accommodate up to a 32 GB drive - I got one of those yesterday for $12.99. I can hold 10 CDs of music on a 700 MB CD, and my folder of CDs has served me well. The flash drive should be even better. I haven't rented a car in the last few years that didn't have a USB port, so I've been taking a flash drive full of music and audiobooks when I travel.
But now I can't use the USB port for charging my phone, so I got a plug-in charger for the phone. Ain't technology wonderful?

-Joe-

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Subject: RE: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: GUEST,bernieandred
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 04:39 PM

As a performer I play all my backing tracks on an mp3 player/mixer, which takes SD cards. Recently started selling our music, (which was always available on CD) on a USB thumb drive, & it has been going really well. We perform to older audiences & I wondered if they would be tech savvy enough for a new format, but they jumped on board.

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Subject: RE: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 09:58 PM

Congrats! By dead reckoning you may now drive olde Route 66 seven times over without hearing a repeat! Then again, if you were planning on taking the Pan-American Highway south I'm guessing you're probably only to the Canal Zone so better get busy with the vinyl :D

Be sure to leave one of those back-ups at work or with a friend.

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Subject: RE: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC Card
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Feb 15 - 10:06 PM

Sounds good, Rob. My music is in various forms all over the place, it's time to corral it for that kind of listening. And for backup. Anything I ever bought via Amazon is in in my account with them so I have a lot I listen to at work or streaming, but the unique discs (many from Mudcatters) need to be backed up and then I'd listen to them more often.

SRS

Subject: RE: Subject: Finally Got All My CDs On SDHC
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Feb 15 - 06:06 PM

The question is: what will the digital programs of the future be like - and will our current digital files be playable/readable/executable in 10, 20 and 30 years' time?

I still have my vinyl and my paper - just in case!