[quote user="Andrew Everard"]
[quote user="BrightSpark"]
Alternatively, for a home office you could try a £30 experiment.
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Except the OP said he didn't want to rip all his CDs.
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Yes, understood, we're just using threats and coercion to try to make them change their mind. Why not rip the CD only when they play one, for example - no time lost, use error correction for bit-perfect lossless copies, save 250 quid (or spend it on headphone amps), that sort of thing.
And for some reason I thought the OP was a her - or am I thinking of Madam Bouverie.........?