Reply to: Plan B - How much to rip all your CDs to a harddrive?

[dx4100]

You'd have more demand if you also offered that service for videos and even vinyl

I would pay for said service to rip all my DVDs... While its easy and quick enough with CDs it a complete mare with DVDs... Again no idea about the legality...

[OwlHoot]

I'm thinking of some Plan B's and one that I thought of is a simple business.

I come to your house and pick up all your CD's. Then I return in a day or two and give you them back plus a hard drive containing all your CD's ripped for you. (Alternatively, I copy the ripped CD's on to your PC, so you don't pay for the hard drive.)

How much would you pay for this service, per-CD?

You'd have more demand if you also offered that service for videos and even vinyl

[Sysman]

Isn't all this illegal? The fact that the licensed material is being converted?

Just a thought...

The Blank media levy in various countries is intended to cover that.*

Which chucks me off when I only use CDs/DVDs for data backup and boot disks.

* not sure what the UK position is nowadays but I thought it was always OK for private purposes only.

[aussielong]

The only thing I'd pay for would be a highly intelligent renaming and reorganising of the tracks in iTunes. It takes ages to rename all your "Bach, JS", "Bach, J.S." and "Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)" tracks to match your "Bach, Johann Sebastian". And only then do you get to decide whether your 6 Bach cello suites should be organised into 6 albums or 1. Then decide how to use the "Artist" field to differentiate your La Traviata (La Scala 1955) from your La Traviata (Lisbon 1958).

This would be a big advantage for me personally. Since I have nearly a 1000 CDs, categorising them would make my life easier. I really can't be bothered to do it.

The other thing is, I don't think it's illegal if you get the customer to sign a bit of paper saying it's for backups.

Also, if I ran this business, I would build up a massive library of songs. Which I could expose through a website as an online juke box. Which is a lovely bonus.

[Sysman]

The only thing I'd pay for would be a highly intelligent renaming and reorganising of the tracks in iTunes. It takes ages to rename all your "Bach, JS", "Bach, J.S." and "Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)" tracks to match your "Bach, Johann Sebastian". And only then do you get to decide whether your 6 Bach cello suites should be organised into 6 albums or 1. Then decide how to use the "Artist" field to differentiate your La Traviata (La Scala 1955) from your La Traviata (Lisbon 1958).

Agreed. Organising classical music in iTunes is a friggin nightmare, particularly where you have a load of stuff bought in Europe. There are several different spellings for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, er I mean Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski, or do I mean Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky ???

The wotsit database that iTunes uses to look up CDs gets confused about which CD you actually have, especially when it comes to European only releases (not just for classical music here, but all genres).-

[thunderlizard]

The only thing I'd pay for would be a highly intelligent renaming and reorganising of the tracks in iTunes. It takes ages to rename all your "Bach, JS", "Bach, J.S." and "Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)" tracks to match your "Bach, Johann Sebastian". And only then do you get to decide whether your 6 Bach cello suites should be organised into 6 albums or 1. Then decide how to use the "Artist" field to differentiate your La Traviata (La Scala 1955) from your La Traviata (Lisbon 1958).

[alreadypacked]

You'll never take me alive, copper.

[SupremeSpod]

Thought about this too, lots of oportunuty for 'value add' too.

Offering the music in a variety of formats (flac, wav, ogg, mp3) you could argue some formats take more time than others to encode so cost more....

Putting all the CD's in one of those nice carry cases when you hand back

Options on the Meta Data you are putting on the files.

Online backup options, (we store your music collection, for you to access online if needed)

Isn't all this illegal? The fact that the licensed material is being converted?

Just a thought...

[portseven]

Thought about this too, lots of oportunuty for 'value add' too.

Offering the music in a variety of formats (flac, wav, ogg, mp3) you could argue some formats take more time than others to encode so cost more....

Putting all the CD's in one of those nice carry cases when you hand back

Options on the Meta Data you are putting on the files.

Online backup options, (we store your music collection, for you to access online if needed)

[RichardCranium]

My Dad hangs CDs from bamboo canes by string over his fruit & veg as bird scarers.

I don't know if they have to be specific CDs, but he likes a lot of brass band music and Wagner and Joe Loss and I suspect the birds aren't keen on that.

[EternalOptimist]

I'd slip in a few pictures from Gary Glitters collection, then blackmail them forever.

I'd target bankers, politicians and trainspotters

[lukemg]

I doubt the one client a quarter that this business is likely to get will leave much opportunity for the disaster described.....and for that reason I'm out.

[Sysman]

Has anyone tried hurling a CD off Clifton suspension bridge? If you did that with half an LP it was great, they flew slowly down twirling round and round like bats.

Not CD's or Bristol, but a chappati left over from the previous day flies well off the top of Malham Cove:

PS It always seems a shame to throw CDs away. There should be a use for them as they look so nice and shiny. But apart from cheap beer mats I can't think of anything.

Don't use your own microwave for this but you cn use them to study the Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Microwave Excitation of Compact Disks. They make a pretty good light show in the process.

[DimPrawn]

Has anyone tried hurling a CD off Clifton suspension bridge? If you did that with half an LP it was great, they flew slowly down twirling round and round like bats.

PS It always seems a shame to throw CDs away. There should be a use for them as they look so nice and shiny. But apart from cheap beer mats I can't think of anything.

I have stuck several CDs low down to a fence in a shady part of my garden which reflects sunlight onto the normally shaded flower bed. The extra sunlight makes plants that usually grow in full sun to thrive in the shady area.

[xoggoth]

Has anyone tried hurling a CD off Clifton suspension bridge? If you did that with half an LP it was great, they flew slowly down twirling round and round like bats.

PS It always seems a shame to throw CDs away. There should be a use for them as they look so nice and shiny. But apart from cheap beer mats I can't think of anything.