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Is music on your older CD’s any good

Posted by geeknews at 7:04 PM on August 8, 2004

Apparently CD’s over time are becoming unplayable. This makes me cringe as I have nearly 1000 CD’s, and this means I am going to have to start copying the raw tracks to hard-drives. Let’s see what that is going to cost me. 1000 x 650,000,000 bytes = 650,000,000,000 bytes Unless I did the math wrong this is going to hurt. [BBC]

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  1. From Toni Danza at 9:10 pm on August 8, 2004

    if you use lossless compression, you can save about 50% of space… total ~ 0.4 GB per CD, a puny 25c. Even if you keep two copies of each, 50c / CD. Or, you can copy to DVD-R at 10c / CD.

    This cost is nothing compared to the price you paid for the licensing of this content at $15 / CD, no?