I have over 1000 cds ( not songs--- full cds of songs )copied to my computer and it doesn't seem to bother or slow it down.. I am trying to sort and put them on san disks and 2 G don't even cover many at all to copy on ...What would you suggest?
2007-09-24 01:48:57 · 7 answers · asked by Eileen J 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
1000 cd's is alot of music. I would assume if they were ripped with normal 192bit rate that would probably be at least 60-80gigs worth of music.
What are you trying to do? Transfer them to your new computer? or are you trying to fit them on discs?
You won't be able to put it on a disc. It will just take too many discs. If your trying to transfer them to your new computer then you could hook the two computers up and do it that way.
What I suggest is to buy an external Harddrive, maybe a 80 or 100 gig one. They're not all that expensive now and you could probably find one for around 100 - 150 bucks. Thats the easiest way to go so now you can simply plug it in to your computer and not have to worry about transfering the songs everytime you get a new computer and you dont have to worry about filling up your computer's harddrive all the time.
2007-09-24 02:03:18 · answer #1 · answered by TGBoston 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An external drive or DVD are probably a better bet than SanDisk. An 8GB flash drive is the largest I've seen and the cost to backup that many CDs would be prohibitive.
Why don't you check out external hard drives at Tiger Direct or other vendor. They can easily accommodate the CDs at significantly less cost than flash drives.
2007-09-24 08:55:23 · answer #2 · answered by crustysob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
has nothing to do with the make of the machine. How big of a hard disk do you get in our fairly new Dell?
a song is about 5 MB, so if you have 2 GB, which is 2000 MB, you should be able to fit about 400 songs per 2 GB device.
2007-09-24 08:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's do some quick estimates...
Let's say there are an average of 15 songs on a CD.
Let's also say that each song is approx. 3.5MB MP3 file.
That comes out to be 52.5MB of MP3 files per CD.
Take that times 1000 CDs, and you get 52,500MB which is approx. 52.5GB worth of MP3 files per 1000 CDs.
This is just an estimate, but you see about how much room you would need.
2007-09-24 08:54:37 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you copied the songs, go to your music section where you stored them, click on veiw then click on detail it will show you how large each file is, that might explain everything, even though most files are betwee 5-6 mb, the copied ones may only be 1 kb.
2007-09-24 08:58:21 · answer #5 · answered by trey98607 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A CD is averaging 650MB when optimized. 1000 CD's will mean you got 650,000MB or 650Gig of storage. i think that is not the case.
While "ripping" your CD, it may have been converted into *.wma or *.mp3 or similar file encryption. Now, instead of 650MB per disc, you may have saved only say 65MB (for simplicity based on 3.25Mb 128-bit minimum per song on a 20-track disc). That is equivalent to 65Gb - pretty much realistic.
Now, that simply does not fit a 2G memory card.
2007-09-24 08:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by jhez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on your amount of hard drive. If you have enough you should be able to. But I wouldn't recommend it. It will slow your computer way down and sense its a dell its already pretty slow to begin with.
2007-09-24 09:11:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋