For the past couple of weeks Georg and I have been taken up with a massive archiving project. The goal: to make it easier to transport our music to the radio station. The task? Copying hundreds of CDs, printing up labels for them, and filing them in a binder. A big, big binder.
I don't actually have the binder yet; it's on order. It's hard to find a really big CD binder in regular retail stores. Amazon and Best Buy carry the same brand. It's OK but the largest one holds only 300 or so, and the handle isn't very comfortable. I googled "dj cd case" and found one that holds 520 CDs and has a shoulder strap. That's the one I ordered. Christa uses a very similar case for her Divaville CDs and it's really nice.
That same website also had a hard case with wheels and a telescoping handle. Drool. Unfortunately the sleeves sound kind of funky -- you have to put two CDs in each sleeve so you can only see the label for the top one or something? It wasn't super clear from the description. I'm not sure if that would work as we need the ability to browse the CDs and see what's on them at a glance. Plus it's almost 3 times more expensive than the other. Ah well, I guess I'll have to live without the wheeled case.
Turns out copying CDs takes a long time if you have to do a lot of them. To facilitate the task I've brought the fast deskop computer with the big hard drive out into the living room. This way I can lounge on the couch and watch TV while working. The computer fills the coffee table though.
I have a friend with a CD duplication business & I'm hoping I can make use of his equipment one evening this week. In the meantime, copy on!
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That sounds as tedious as my CD-ripping project has been. The good part is that I'm already realizing results, even though I still have a long way to go.
I remember you talking about that project. Is it still going on?
I actually was wondering why you don't rip all of your (airable) CDs into MP3 and copy them onto double-sided DVDs. You can compress about 150 CDs onto a single DVD that way and still have air-quality music. Or can't WXDU broadcast straight from MP3?
I think we can, but I'm not sure how that works, also not sure how to handle segues if all the music is on one disc. You can program the CD player to move from one track to another, and I'm assuming the computer would work the same. But then you wouldn't be able to manage the segue, i.e. fade between tracks.
Mainly I'm just used to CDs and fear change :)