Yes.
Import your songs on a computer that is hooked up to the Internet. Then transfer these named files to your rehearsal space computer via a USB key or portable hard drive.
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Archiving CD's...Using A Hard Drive
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Yes.
Import your songs on a computer that is hooked up to the Internet. Then transfer these named files to your rehearsal space computer via a USB key or portable hard drive.
iTunes can rip and organize your music collection, true. However, many people, myself included, find that it takes over your machine and music collection without giving the end user much choice (unless you dig deep into the program first). I refuse to give my credit card number to Apple in order to install their software. It might take a little longer, but I'd rather rip and organize things exactly how I want them rather than rely on Apple's choices.
12bass said:
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Lots of choices out there for non-archival ripping which sounds like what you're doing. Go mp3 since it's such a standard format. You can use whatever software you want to play and hold your library.
If I connect the machine to the interwebz . . . It amazes me that they couldn't get that data onto the cd itself. Perhaps its a secret plan to find out who is ripping what and how often?
Some discs store song information using CD-Text. A database server like freedb is unlikely to be keeping track of ripping for nefarious purposes. Not so sure about commercial services....
