CD Players

[PTBoardOp94]

I've been trying to move forward on getting at least some of our CD's in the DAD. But here's the rub: The station is classical. We have over 33,000 CD's in the library and at least 11,000 LP's. I figure we would need someone in almost a full-time capacity to start ripping these in. No, we don't play all of them...but there might be 10 classic recordings of the same symphony. So just one Beethoven symphony at 4 movements each requires 40 transfers. There are 9 Beethoven symphonies...the 9th we must have 50 recordings of. Then 41 Mozart Symphonies, 100 Plus Haydn symphonies.....piano concertos, sonatas...it appears overwhelming. My big problem is no one is willing to even discuss getting the ball rolling. Our old Sonys are getting tired....

With more than five YEARS of continuous music in your library, it probably isn't worth it to digitize it all. But you can still start digitizing. Pick somewhere and start -- it seems like the "great works" would be a good place to start because you're likely to play the Brandenburg Concertos more than once every five years and less likely to play anything anonymous 16th century Dutch composers.