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April 13, 2006
Considering a complete re-rip/encode
I've got pretty much all my music in Ogg, and I have a Neuros portable jukebox that plays back all my content (had it for years). I've upgraded it with a 60G drive, of which 36G is free at the moment. It's functional, but getting long in the tooth, and a bit bulky, so I've been looking for it's replacement. (On the other hand, I got 12 hours on a single charge going back and forth from SEA to BOS - which amazed me. I didn't intend to not charge it, I just forgot to plug it in in BOS, and was pleasantly surprised when the music was still playing when I had to shut it down for arrival in SEA.)
I'd like it's successor to support Ogg (so I don't have to re rip and encode my entire collection), and I'd like it to support Microsoft's tethered DRM (i.e. Rhapsody ToGo).
This seems to be a mutually exclusive set (not surprising, companies that implement DRM don't tend to love OpenSource, and vice-versa).
So I'm trying to decide if getting a jukebox that supports tethered downloads is worth re-ripping and encoding 600-odd CDs.
I've thought about paying someone to do it for me, but at $1/cd, that's a *lot* of money. And if I do this again, I'm going to rip to FLAC so I can transcode across lossy formats without re-ripping, which makes it $1.20/cd.
What I really need is a CD-ROM jukebox, but they seem to run several thousand dollars (vs. a CD jukebox, which can be had for less than $200, but lacks CDDA extraction capabilities).
Posted by dberger at April 13, 2006 1:29 PM