by Scott » Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:56 pm
I want to back up my collection of around 1000 audio CDs to MP3, and have MediaMonkey keep track of both the CDs and the backups.
It seems that Virtual CD is custom made for this operation - it allows me to rip each CD to MP3 and add any information I like (credits, lyrics, etc). A single entry is in the database so I don't have to worry about which one I'm looking at or have to make each change to mulitiple locations.
However, this will result in tens of gigabytes of data sitting on one hard disk. The goal here is to have them backed up and accessible, not all sitting on a single hard drive. Once they're ripped, I want to move all these backup MP3s to data DVDs, and have MM tell me where each one is.
As far as I can tell there's no way to do this - Virtual CD wants to keep all its data in one monolithic directory tree on one hard drive.
The alternative to me appears to be to go ahead and rip the CDs and have them in the library, then copy the tracks to DVD and have the DVDs in the library as well. The downside to that is that each track will show up twice in the library, and any information I add (credits, ratings, lyrics, etc.) will immediately take the duplicates out of synch - and the MM tag synching won't help since one of the duplicates is just a CD audio library entry.
Sorry that's longwinded; I hope it's clear what I'm trying to accomplish and avoid. Any suggestions?
I want to back up my collection of around 1000 audio CDs to MP3, and have MediaMonkey keep track of both the CDs and the backups.
It seems that Virtual CD is custom made for this operation - it allows me to rip each CD to MP3 and add any information I like (credits, lyrics, etc). A single entry is in the database so I don't have to worry about which one I'm looking at or have to make each change to mulitiple locations.
However, this will result in tens of gigabytes of data sitting on one hard disk. The goal here is to have them backed up and accessible, not all sitting on a single hard drive. Once they're ripped, I want to move all these backup MP3s to data DVDs, and have MM tell me where each one is.
As far as I can tell there's no way to do this - Virtual CD wants to keep all its data in one monolithic directory tree on one hard drive.
The alternative to me appears to be to go ahead and rip the CDs and have them in the library, then copy the tracks to DVD and have the DVDs in the library as well. The downside to that is that each track will show up twice in the library, and any information I add (credits, ratings, lyrics, etc.) will immediately take the duplicates out of synch - and the MM tag synching won't help since one of the duplicates is just a CD audio library entry.
Sorry that's longwinded; I hope it's clear what I'm trying to accomplish and avoid. Any suggestions?