Anyone took advantage of the long cold winter to rip their CDs? I started in late 2012, finished in spring 2013, ripped 650-odd during that time IIRC. Since then I've apparently bought about 30 more because I'm now at 683 CDs across 488 albums (I have a lot of VA multidisc collections). But most of this winter I've been 'ripping' LPs as already explained in other threads (47 LPs in total). I've also recorded 21 Northern Soul 7" singles for my brother dating from the mid 60s to the early 70s, and I finally got round to ripping my collection of 43 CD singles, purchased from 1987 - 2003 when I stopped buying singles.
As well as keeping both a backup in the cloud and a duplicate on a separate HDD, I also convert everything to MP3s and store them on a 128GB flashdrive. If only my mother was still here it would totally blow her mind that on something not much bigger than a 5p piece I have stored the music from 683 CDs, 47 LPs, 43 CD singles and 21 vinyl singles, and it's still about 25% empty. Fair enough it's lossy but 99% of the time that doesn't matter, especially as I mainly use it in the wife's car.
As well as keeping both a backup in the cloud and a duplicate on a separate HDD, I also convert everything to MP3s and store them on a 128GB flashdrive. If only my mother was still here it would totally blow her mind that on something not much bigger than a 5p piece I have stored the music from 683 CDs, 47 LPs, 43 CD singles and 21 vinyl singles, and it's still about 25% empty. Fair enough it's lossy but 99% of the time that doesn't matter, especially as I mainly use it in the wife's car.