Digitizing Entire CD Collection

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Digitizing Entire CD Collection

I am fairly new to the Mac world, and I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but I couldn't find an explicit answer... so here goes:

I would like to digitize my entire CD collection (in WAV format) on a 500GB external hard drive I have. My collection is about 300 CDs right now. What I would like to do is to be able to pick an album and play it in its entirety. iTunes doesn't seem to be able to do this easily, at least not without making a playlist for each album. Is there something I am missing? ... or is there an alternative software that can be configured to be album based?

Thanks for your help!
Mark Nowicki

Powerbook G4 17" 1.67GHz 2GB DL, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 20, 2006 6:55 AM

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NoName

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May 20, 2006 8:14 AM in response to MarkN

To answer you questiona about playlists, I don't use any. Ever. I don't like them. However, using the iTunes Browser (Edit > Show Browser) is a convenient way to navigate through all one's albums.

As far as ripping 300 CDs, I would strongly recommend that you take the time to download and configure Max to take care of this. It's the best ripper and encoder available for OS X (Tiger only), and will output files in WAV format and even add them to your iTunes library automatically if that's what you want.

Not to sound contradictory, but why not use a lossless compressor instead of WAV and save some space on your drive? Max will encode to FLAC, Monkey's Audio, and Apple Lossless, plus about 17 other formats.

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