Subj : Organizing collections
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Ogg
Date : Sun Feb 25 2024 09:12:00

Hello Nigel Reed!

** On Sunday 18.02.24 - 15:26, Nigel Reed wrote to Ogg:

 >> Maybe just start with the easy ones that don't have any
 >> stickers blocking the barcodes?

 NR> Easier said that done. That means more time sorting
 NR> through, new piles, etc. Still no guarantee the barcode
 NR> will scan. Depends on the state of the plastic.

Maybe turn that into a game for a young niece or nephew? "Hey  
kids, I need to find all the CDs with the labels and sort  
them.."

 >> I have a similar dilemma. I promised myself that everytime I
 >> touched a CD to play it, I would then register it into Discogs. [...]


 NR> I just ripped them while I was working. It's pretty
 NR> automatic. Obviously not everything I have is ripped.

OK..  then you *do* have a significant database already.  Why  
can't you use that? I'm still interesting to read what you  
have.


 >> The whole process COULD work if I had ample HDD space to rip
 >> each CD before or after I play it.  That process would be an
 >> easy way to file the pertinent info automatically.  But.. I
 >> don't have the HDD space for the project.

 NR> Just get yourself a 4TB hard drive or something.

That seems to be what I will end up doing.  4TB SDD/HDD drives  
seem be much lower in price when I first looked into the  
matter.  I have good days and bad days. On good days, it feels  
like it might be fun to just motor through some of my stash and  
rip as much as I can.


 NR> I have almost 50,000 mp3 files on a 3TB partition of which 2.6T is used,
 NR> 1.5T of that space is used for videos.

Ah yes.. there is the video issue too. But for me, video is not  
as great a concern. I don't glue myself to the TV much at all.   
I recently revisited the stash of video/movies at archive.org.   
There's a whole wack of fine material obtainable at any time  
right there.  I recently watched a film from 1949 called  
Impact.  It was a very smart murder mystery. At nearly 2hrs  
running time, that seemed unusual by today's standards.

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