Thought of Going Digital Getting You Down?

You have a pretty impressive CD collection. Friends marvel at the towers of jewel cases you’ve amassed over the years and wonder aloud how you manage to keep them so organized. Yes, it’s a point of pride to have such a diverse array of music at your fingertips, something for every occasion. You smile as your friend recognizes and admires your commitment to and investment in music.

But are you really experiencing your collection as much as you could be? You’ve ripped some of your favorite CDs to digital formats, but doing them all is such a daunting task, you don’t even want to think about it. If only someone would do it for you….

This is where a CD ripping service such as Ripstyles comes in handy. For as little as $.25 a disk, you can have all of your music converted to the digital audio format of your choice. If you’d like to have it in two formats, say MP3 for your portable player and FLAC for home, it’ll cost you just a bit more. The best part is, most companies will send you the shipping supplies for free and insure your disks as well.

Let’s look at some of the features available with most ripping services.

(There may be an addition cost for some of these.)

• Free shipping both ways
• Meta data – album, artist, track, album artwork
• Instructions on how to get everything to your computer
• Copying your digital collection to a portable device or hard drive you provide (or purchase from them)
• CD cleaning and repairing
• Turn around time can be less than a week
• Can also convert cassette tapes, VHS tapes and other media to digital formats

So now that you don’t need your CDs anymore, what should you do with them? Two of my favorite ideas are turning them into “scarecrows” in you garden and using them for skeet shooting.

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