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Future of CD's - Hard drive based music

The big change/future I have found is the use of all digital music - I havent used my CD player since christmas - I got a Mac Mini and ripped all my CDs to the harddrive lossless formated and got a decent DAC - I Ripped only the songs I liked and I now have over 4 days worth of music I enjoy - no more getting up changing CD's,I can instantly play any song from my entire library of favorites. I use my Sony Hi-def TV as the monitor so I can web browse while listening to music. The sound quality is as good as CD's as far as I can tell - I wonder how long it will be before lossless songs are offered online - this will completely kill the need for CD's for me.
thymanst

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bigamp
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Thymanst-Agreed. I bought a good DAC because I wanted to get into PC-based audio. I also got a CD/SACD transport, because we still can't rip SACDs. If Sony ever allows DSD to be ripped to hard drive, I will probably ditch the transport. (EmmLabs CDSD transport and DCC2 DAC).

Jrun-There is ~100% chance a drive will fail. One solution is to backup music or the entire system to an external hard drive and just put the hard drive away in case you need it. So, if the computer fails, you can plug in the external drive and restore the system, including music (Acronis TruImage lets you do this with USB drives.) Another more expensive solution is to use a RAID-5 array--when one of the drives fails, it is rebuilt from the other drives.
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