I was actively working on migrating from a CD-based music library to a computer-based one earlier this year. I have abandoned that effort, without any regrets. Why?
1) I have about 2000 CDs. Downloading them into a computer would take months, taking time away from actually listening to music. Shortly before abandoning the computerization process, I found myself wondering why I wasn't studying a score of music I was particularly interested in at the time instead of fiddling with computers, a soul-sucking task. I had no good answer.
2) The initial sound quality I was getting out of the computer was pretty poor, which indicated significant future tweaking was needed, with no guarantees that the final product would be significantly better than CDs.
3) Finally, the back-up procedures needed to maintain hard-drive storage for a computerized system are actually pretty onerous and make owning a CD collection a breeze.
The cost of the transition far exceeded the minor benefits. I'm waiting for a truly user-friendly process to be established before trying again. In the meantime, my CD collection sounds great.
1) I have about 2000 CDs. Downloading them into a computer would take months, taking time away from actually listening to music. Shortly before abandoning the computerization process, I found myself wondering why I wasn't studying a score of music I was particularly interested in at the time instead of fiddling with computers, a soul-sucking task. I had no good answer.
2) The initial sound quality I was getting out of the computer was pretty poor, which indicated significant future tweaking was needed, with no guarantees that the final product would be significantly better than CDs.
3) Finally, the back-up procedures needed to maintain hard-drive storage for a computerized system are actually pretty onerous and make owning a CD collection a breeze.
The cost of the transition far exceeded the minor benefits. I'm waiting for a truly user-friendly process to be established before trying again. In the meantime, my CD collection sounds great.