Alright, here's a stupid question for ya...
I'm a little behind when it comes to the ripping & burning technology. I just bought a new computer--it has a 500GB harddrive and 2048MB of memory. I have a cd collection of about 500 cds and would love to get them all onto my computer (over time). I don't have a clue on how much space music takes up on a hard drive... is it possible to get all of my cds onto this computer without it slowing down a bit? I don't plan to use this computer just for music... I also plan to transfer home videos and edit them as well as many pictures. Is it possible to have that much music, home videos and hundreds of pictures and still not have to worry about disk space when wanting to download a new program?
2007-02-28 03:50:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I guess I should also add that I would put the music in wma format. That saves space, right?
2007-02-28 03:51:28 · update #1
So.. here's another question -- does an album have to be in MP3 format to burn to a cd, or can you burn to WMA format and still listen to it on a cd player? Is it just a difference in quality?
2007-02-28 04:06:19 · update #2
I've done that same exact thing but not with quite as many CDs - I only have about 280 of them. I chose to save them in higher quality MP3 format using RealPlayer's Save Tracks option because I could then put the music on my MP3 players, make an MP3 CD for the car, or rebuild a broken CD.
My library takes up about 10gb, so you should have plenty of space. No, this won't slow down your computer at all.
In addition, I have thousands of digital images from a camera and scanned copies of older pictures - you've got plenty of space with 500gb. I'm not even using half of one of my 360gb drives.
2007-02-28 03:53:33 · answer #1 · answered by BigRez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Save the music as mp3's...it makes the files much smaller. I just recently did the same thing with a bunch of my cd's. It was fairly easy. I just used Windows Media Player to rip the cd's to the harddrive...and actually would do two at a time...one in my cd drive and one in the dvd drive. They go quick and easy. Just do it while you are working on other things.
2007-02-28 03:56:14 · answer #2 · answered by frozenfun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most songs take about 3-3.5MB.. And assuming there's about 10 songs on every CD.. That's 5000x3 (minumum) - 15,000MB (15GB) So it shouldn't be too bad. Even better in wma format (I think, you have so much space that it wouldn't matter to much)
2007-02-28 03:57:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will have no trouble fitting your CD's on your hard drive with lost of space left over
It will not effect the speed of your computer.
The speed has to do with RAM memory (your 2 GB)
Hard drive memory is not ram and the hard drive is what stores your CD's
2007-02-28 04:03:36 · answer #4 · answered by bob shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋