But then don't you have the worry of your external drive packing in at some point in the future?
Yes, you do. That's why I don't worry about saving everything to a hard drive. I just enjoy my CDs and hope they will last enough to enjoy them while I can.
Do you not have locks on any of your doors, as a lock might give out, or an intruder might find a way in regardless?
1. Rip your CDs lossless to your laptop's internal drive, but do it through some music organising software like iTunes or something else, so you can use that to organise the music files, edit meta data, and visualise your library.
iTunes does not accurately rip CDs. You need a program like XLD that produces a report after a rip verifying whether or not any errors occurred.
I don't see why anyone would want to go through the trouble to back up a collection and use an inferior product that doesn't make an exact copy. You can drag the files into iTunes and organize them afterward.
1. Rip your CDs lossless to your laptop's internal drive, but do it through some music organising software like iTunes or something else, so you can use that to organise the music files, edit meta data, and visualise your library.
iTunes does not accurately rip CDs. You need a program like XLD that produces a report after a rip verifying whether or not any errors occurred.
I don't see why anyone would want to go through the trouble to back up a collection and use an inferior product that doesn't make an exact copy. You can drag the files into iTunes and organize them afterward.
I normally use iTunes to library my ripped CDs.
What settings do you prefer when using XLD or any tips or pointers?
