Hi everyone hope your all well..

Sooooooo ive decided to take on a bit of a project and finally digitally store my entire Prince collection. All official CD's, bootleg CD's and downloads etc.

Have just purchased a 650GB external harddrive (in purple ) and once this arrives ill begin the tedious task of transferring from CD to machine. Its gonna take ages but i see it as storing all my Prince material - past, present and future on my own little Purple Vault. I like the idea of that

Has anyone undertaken this task yet? Its gonna take forever, but i know when its done ill be very happy to have all my Prince stuff in one place forever more lol

Nath

here's an advice: get at least one more harddrive... and do backups!

ive been digital for years now. it became more convenient, i just ran out of room to keep all my cds accessible! over 77,000 songs (of which 8827 are prince) on my hard drive and growing all the time

I plan to get one today...hopefully lol

Mistadobalina said:

here's an advice: get at least one more harddrive... and do backups!

I want to get a 1 or 2TB one that does back up for all my music ............ just to be safe .

My current external HD is great!

savagedreams said:

ive been digital for years now. it became more convenient, i just ran out of room to keep all my cds accessible! over 77,000 songs (of which 8827 are prince) on my hard drive and growing all the time

Whoa lol

I know you needed like five external HD's.

I need to do this as well for both P and MJ stuff I've collected over the years. I have a 250 but filled that bad boy up quickly. I was gonna wait for the Black Friday sales, but I dont think I can hold out that long...

I guess everyone is gonna need to do it one day!

Im doing this particular purple hard drive just for Prince stuff and gonna have a Prince symbol embossed onto the casing, kind of like my own little vault - i know once its done ill feel i have achieved something with my collection. But i will get another one at some point, i dont even know if im gonna fit everything on yet!

Cool little project tho' me thinks

I bought a 2TB & have begun the process of backing up my entire audio collection. Daunting task for sure...

BTW, Best Buy has the 2TB WesternDigital externals for about $150 at least once a month... wait for a sale!

Mistadobalina said:

here's an advice: get at least one more harddrive... and do backups!

God, I was just going to post this. Seriously, if yout think it's worth keeping something on a HD, it's worth backing up too.

Buy 2 of the same size (or same model even) and have one as a mirror of the other. (And keep them in different places). HDs are so cheap these days, it's really a worthy investment and may save you a lot time and heartwrenching later.

To answer the OP, I've got all my Prince CD/vinyl converted (and backed-up). A small piece of advice - rip the stuff to the highest bit-rate you are happy with - because in a year or two's time, you might find those 192kpbs rips are not high enough for your OCD tastes and you will find yourself ripping it all over again!

Of course lossless is best, but those files get big and you want to listen to them on the go/on your ipod etc, so not practical - personally I have everything @ 256kpbs aac - which is just perfect for me. (right now)

Yeah. Not only my Prince stuff, but all my CDs which took an INSANE amount of time. Would highly suggest you use Exact Audio Copy in secure for your ripping, I can't say enough great things about the program. It'll take some time, but if you have it set up correctly you won't have to worry about hearing any pops or shit when you go to listen to it 3 years later

Converted everything to mp3 using the LAME encoder

Only thing that sucked about it was realizing how many messed up boots I had Lots of silence gap issues

Glad I did it though. Although all my prince stuff is still sitting on the hard drive, I really need to back this up before I have a hard drive crash or some shit....

[snip - Mars23]

djThunderfunk said:

I bought a 2TB & have begun the process of backing up my entire audio collection. Daunting task for sure...

BTW, Best Buy has the 2TB WesternDigital externals for about $150 at least once a month... wait for a sale!

Noted.

I have a 500GB hard drive and it's almost full. I definitely need to buy a 1TB.

newegg.com has external hard drives for reasonable prices and shipping isn't that much either.

4.5 TB worth of external back-ups for Prince and related material ... and counting

I should do that on my playstation... I only use it for Netflix streaming and blu-rays so far.

luv4u said:

djThunderfunk said:

I bought a 2TB & have begun the process of backing up my entire audio collection. Daunting task for sure...

BTW, Best Buy has the 2TB WesternDigital externals for about $150 at least once a month... wait for a sale!

Noted.

I've been storing music digitally since before Napster existed (Audiogalaxy, baby!). I've gone from having over a thousand data cds, to 500gb external, then a 1tb, then two 1tb. A couple weeks ago I purchased the WesternDigital 4TB and I LOOOOOOVE IT! However, I did leave everything on the 1tb's as backups. I've lost an external before (dropped from about 6 feet in the air) and it sucks!

As far as Prince digitally goes, yeah, like a lot of us I have TONS of it. Like, MANY TONS! I'm really weak on the video side, though. Always have been. For some reason I don't need to see Prince and his bands. I can just "see" them in my head.

organgrinder said:

Hi everyone hope your all well..

Sooooooo ive decided to take on a bit of a project and finally digitally store my entire Prince collection. All official CD's, bootleg CD's and downloads etc.

Have just purchased a 650GB external harddrive (in purple ) and once this arrives ill begin the tedious task of transferring from CD to machine. Its gonna take ages but i see it as storing all my Prince material - past, present and future on my own little Purple Vault. I like the idea of that

Has anyone undertaken this task yet? Its gonna take forever, but i know when its done ill be very happy to have all my Prince stuff in one place forever more lol

Nath

I've done it progressively with all my music in the past 3 years, now i'm done and in the process of sellin all the CD's.

As said b4, just make SURE that u make a backup copy on a second hard-drive b4 u get rid of the CD's. Hard-drives can break, dir, or be stolen, and then you've lost everything, so better have a backup copy ^^ I'd even suggest that u leave the backup copy at a friend's place just in case ur place is robbed or burns or whatever ^^

I haven't played a cd in about 3 years. Even 20Ten got downloaded forst and then the paper version was just ripped without actually playing in a cd player. HATE havibg all the hooha with crappy bits of plastic. I just want the music not the dust gatherer.

How many people on here are also ripping movies to a hard drive?

Well I was in Wal Mart looking at them... I'm gonna wait until my allowance to get it or at least one with 4 GB. I don't wanna spend all of it on external HDs but I saw some good ones though.

Come on guys, it's 2010.

I can't believe so many of you are still keeping mp3.

Go for the real thing (lossless).

ufoclub said:

How many people on here are also ripping movies to a hard drive?

I don't know what the hell y'all are talking about. Are y'all talking about scanning all your Prince CDs into your computer? If so, I've been done did that along with thousands of other songs by other artists too. I just plug the computer into the stereo, hit shuffle, and it's like having my own radio station.

vitriol said:

Come on guys, it's 2010.

I can't believe so many of you are still keeping mp3.

Go for the real thing (lossless).

I plan to. The only think about lossless is that I can't play those on the iPod so I end up having to convert them anyway, then I have two copies, one flac one mp3. Too much space. When I get the bigger hard drive I might do lossless, but for now mp3 will have to do.

^I have a good suggestion to fix that: fuck the fucking iPod.

jaybendy said:

vitriol said:

Come on guys, it's 2010.

I can't believe so many of you are still keeping mp3.

Go for the real thing (lossless).

I plan to. The only think about lossless is that I can't play those on the iPod so I end up having to convert them anyway, then I have two copies, one flac one mp3. Too much space. When I get the bigger hard drive I might do lossless, but for now mp3 will have to do.

You're doing it backwards . . . you should rip FLAC or Apple Lossless now, and then you won't ever have to rip the CD again. You can convert directly to MP3 or AAC from the Lossless files.

Also, ripping CDs is very taxing on your optical drive, so you really don't want to have to do them all twice . . .

nevermind...

[Edited 8/17/10 16:11pm]

vitriol said:

^I have a good suggestion to fix that: fuck the fucking iPod.

NEVER!!!!

Convert to Apple Lossless!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...e_Lossless

Se7en said:

jaybendy said:

I plan to. The only think about lossless is that I can't play those on the iPod so I end up having to convert them anyway, then I have two copies, one flac one mp3. Too much space. When I get the bigger hard drive I might do lossless, but for now mp3 will have to do.

You're doing it backwards . . . you should rip FLAC or Apple Lossless now, and then you won't ever have to rip the CD again. You can convert directly to MP3 or AAC from the Lossless files.

Also, ripping CDs is very taxing on your optical drive, so you really don't want to have to do them all twice . . .