On 09/06/2018 08:57, Robin wrote:
On 09/06/2018 07:22, RJH wrote:

Either way, it's going to be a long haul ripping (maybe) 500 CDs. Then
there's hoping they're in decent condition and copy over nicely,
catalogued and gaplessed correctly.* And then there's the backup . . .

We are told "He has about 1TB of flac files stored the last time I
looked, and is about half way." Assuming a CD compresses to a FLAC of
400 MB on average I make that 2,500 done and the same to follow!


Ah, yes, well spotted! Well, that's just going to take months - I
estimated a long working week on 500. Not that my estimates are much to
go on ;-)

If pushed for time and not strapped for cash, or not wanting to do
such a mind-numbing exercise, I'd think about posting on a local forum
- see if anyone's interested and how much they want. I'd think it'd be
50+ hours.


Though it doesn't take many CDs with problems which lead EAC to take an
hour or more for the job to stretch.


TBH, a friend took all of my 500 CDs (and nice pine storage cases) - she
kept them on condition they were ripped to flac for me.

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Cheers, Rob