Putting my CD collection onto HD

[Magic_x_uk]

Hi folks, want to ask a quickie,

I have about 170 - 200 Cd's and i want to put them all on to my computer. I need to buy a hard drive just for this (not sure GB for that amount of cd's) ?

Anyhow. Whats the best way of putting all my collection onto the computer. Will i have to type in each track name and album name or ??

What program is best so i can basically put my music cd into my computer and save it on there.

I want to do this so eventually when i get my back side into gear and buy a mp3 player all will be ready for me.

 

[Magic_x_uk]

well 99% of my cd's are all original so this freedb should be usefull ( i think its sometimes called cddb)?

Anyhow, thanks for the idea of how much disk space i need. OcUK have some good offers on HD this week so may buy one of those spinpoint's as i hear they are quite quiet.

Now the program i need but to be honest im still a bit confused.

I just put a original CD into my computer and tried Windows Media player under the RIP setting and it ripped it in windows media audio not mp3

I want a program where i can put a disk in and it ripps it to my chosen destination into the file format i want.

Which will be mp3.

is that what winamp does then ?

just need a program that will sort this out.

 

[Magic_x_uk]

Been using CDex for a hour now and seeing how that goes, i dont understand this kbps thing. My default on Cdex it appears under options to do it at 128 kbps, with encoder option at MPEG 1, although i do have the option of MPEG II or MPEG II.5

also it is clicked, under LAME encoder MP3 version


what is the advantage in higher kbps then ? i take it it is better sound quality then ? I am now trying at 192 kbps

Must admit, so far, CDex seems to be doing the job fine for me at the moment