The big question is... how do I share our growing mp3 collection? We're at 90GB and growing. How can we share the collection between us easily? Right now it's sitting resident on her computer. I was going to just buy a 400GB drive and put it on there and forget, but would a NAS be better?
Oh wait, iTunes doesn't play well with network shares...:-(
Anyone have an idea?
As long as you check the metadata and make sure it's spelled right/cataloged correctly, I'd say you got yerself a business plan there... ever thought of incorporating?;-)
The majority of discs we own are from her stint as an enployee at Peaches Music store (~5 years ago). The gf wasn't as tech oriented until we started dating, so she didn't own an iPod (or computer, even) until about a year ago. Every CD we've bought since then, however, gets ripped immediately after purchase. Besides, when she got her iPod (a 20GB one), she wanted to listen to all the new CDs she had bought up to that point, not the stuff in storage.
Jeez.... you buncha pansies. Me and the gf have a combined 5000 disc collection, so something like this has alot of draw for us. Christ, just ripping the CDs alone would take 400 solid hours (minus the 200 discs we've arelady done) without breaks or hardware failure. Of course, that means it would cost $3800 to rip them (at.79c per disc), but that's money well spent to to have all our schtuff in digital formats.
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The big question is... how do I share our growing mp3 collection? We're at 90GB and growing. How can we share the collection between us easily? Right now it's sitting resident on her computer. I was going to just buy a 400GB drive and put it on there and forget, but would a NAS be better? Oh wait, iTunes doesn't play well with network shares... :-(
Anyone have an idea?
As long as you check the metadata and make sure it's spelled right/cataloged correctly, I'd say you got yerself a business plan there... ever thought of incorporating? ;-)
The majority of discs we own are from her stint as an enployee at Peaches Music store (~5 years ago). The gf wasn't as tech oriented until we started dating, so she didn't own an iPod (or computer, even) until about a year ago. Every CD we've bought since then, however, gets ripped immediately after purchase. Besides, when she got her iPod (a 20GB one), she wanted to listen to all the new CDs she had bought up to that point, not the stuff in storage.
Jeez.... you buncha pansies. Me and the gf have a combined 5000 disc collection, so something like this has alot of draw for us. Christ, just ripping the CDs alone would take 400 solid hours (minus the 200 discs we've arelady done) without breaks or hardware failure. Of course, that means it would cost $3800 to rip them (at .79c per disc), but that's money well spent to to have all our schtuff in digital formats.