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Thinking about selling my CD collection = MP3

I am having serious thoughts about selling my 1,500 or so CD collection and going to MP3 playback format. At one time I use to have the time and sit in front of my system and really listen, I mean sit and really get into the music. Now with two kids, and the band that I play guitar in, there is simply no time. My listening consists of in the car or in the house while I am doing something else. I am thinking about ripping my collection to my computer, selling the CDs and my CD player and using a large storage MP3 player as my source. Any thoughts? Anyone else out there do this?
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I went through the same debate with my 4K cd collection. I decided not to sell them for several reasons:

1. Even though I have a RAID, it is still not 100$ failsafe so in case of a catastrophy, I still have my originals

2. Encoding technology may change in the future so I want to have the originals

3. I just like the idea of having the CDs I can see and touch vs the virtual music that only exists in the realm of 0's and 1's (i.e. the matrix!)

4. I am a bit sentimental about my CDs. I have been collecting music for over 20 years and there are a lot of memories tied to each CD.

Anyway, just my 2 cents.
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