Personalize your collection
The first thing you'll want to consider is your end use. Will you mostly listen to your music at home on a very good set of speakers or high end headphones? Is it all about portability for you? Maybe a little of both? Are you an audiophile, techie, gym rat, or like to travel. Then there are always budget considerations, even at today's prices 500 gigabytes will still set you back hundreds and if you're serious you'll need more than 500 gigs. Your answers to these questions will help you decide on the proper settings to use in iTunes for your particular use.

Before you rip
For starters you'll need a computer with a CD drive, ripping software like iTunes and an internet connection. Beyond that, these key factors are important; Players/Software, Sound Quality, Storage cost,Time and speed.

• Player and software - If you're a committed iPod user then iTunes is a perfect solution. However if you want to make sure you'll be able to adapt your collection to the next big thing you will want to create files that not only work with your iPod but make sure you ke
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  l of your end results - to create files that sound and play the way you want them to. An added advantage, it offers the greatest flexibility as well as the ability to create a custom digital music collection. A collection that will stay uncorrupted for years. It is this 'ripping' process that iTunes is so good at and we'll discuss a few of the settings that will make for a better result.

  Personalize your collection
  The first thing you'll want to consider is your end use. Will you mostly listen to your music at home on a very good set of speakers or high end headphones? Is it all about portability for you? Maybe a little of both? Are you an audiophile, techie, gym rat, or like to travel. Then there are always budget considerations, even at today's prices 500 gigabytes will still set you back hundreds and if you're serious you'll need more than 500 gigs. Your answers to these questions will help you decide on the proper settings to use in iTunes for your particular use.

  Before you rip
  For starters you'll need a computer with a CD drive, ripping software like iTunes and an internet connection. Beyond that, these key factors are important; Players/Software, Sound Quality, Storage cost,Time and speed.

  • Player and software - If you're a committed iPod user then iTunes is a perfect solution. However if you want to make sure you'll be able to adapt your collection to the next big thing you will want to create files that not only work with your iPod but make sure you ke
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    Personalize your collection
    The first thing you'll want to consider is your end use. Will you mostly listen to your music at home on a very good set of speakers or high end headphones? Is it all about portability for you? Maybe a little of both? Are you an audiophile, techie, gym rat, or like to travel. Then there are always budget considerations, even at today's prices 500 gigabytes will still set you back hundreds and if you're serious you'll need more than 500 gigs. Your answers to these questions will help you decide on the proper settings to use in iTunes for your particular use.

    Before you rip
    For starters you'll need a computer with a CD drive, ripping software like iTunes and an internet connection. Beyond that, these key factors are important; Players/Software, Sound Quality, Storage cost,Time and speed.

    • Player and software - If you're a committed iPod user then iTunes is a perfect solution. However if you want to make sure you'll be able to adapt your collection to the next big thing you will want to create files that not only work with your iPod but make sure you ke
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      rices 500 gigabytes will still set you back hundreds and if you're serious you'll need more than 500 gigs. Your answers to these questions will help you decide on the proper settings to use in iTunes for your particular use.

      Before you rip
      For starters you'll need a computer with a CD drive, ripping software like iTunes and an internet connection. Beyond that, these key factors are important; Players/Software, Sound Quality, Storage cost,Time and speed.

      • Player and software - If you're a committed iPod user then iTunes is a perfect solution. However if you want to make sure you'll be able to adapt your collection to the next big thing you will want to create files that not only work with your iPod but make sure you ke
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        ey factors are important; Players/Software, Sound Quality, Storage cost,Time and speed.
        • Player and software - If you're a committed iPod user then iTunes is a perfect solution. However if you want to make sure you'll be able to adapt your collection to the next big thing you will want to create files that not only work with your iPod but make sure you keep either the original CD or an uncompressed AIFF file on a backup hard disk so you can recompress to a different format in the future.
        • Sound quality - Experts who have spent hours testing the quality of various file formats and different conversion variables agree that a song track ripped at a bit rate of 192 kbps result in a file that provides CD quality sound on your iPod and other MP players. However the loss in data of most compressed formats is significant so if you're serious about sound quality, you should consider ripping at a higher compressed bit rate (up to 300 kbps) or consider a lossless or uncompressed format. These high bit rates or lossless formats don't lend themselves to iPod portability and are best used for keeping a library in tact ready to be compressed to your favorite iPod or music phone. Once you have a pristine library you can use it as your source to compress in a variety of ways never changing the original.
        • Cost and storage capacity - Even today most of us still don't have enough free hard drive space to accommodate a sizeable CD collection. Even compressed MP3 files will eat up space rapidly so be prepared to lay out several hundred dollars for that 500 Gig backup.This is especially true if you are ripping more than 100 CDs and most especially if you will rip in lossless or at high bit rates. As an example you can plan on 100 CDs ripped at 192 kbps using a minimum of 10 gigabytes of storage. That isn't too bad when you think about it - probably 1500