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That's a neat story Dom. Thanks

I have a dear friend in his late 80's who has been slowly turning over his CD collection to me. Mostly classic blues, some contemporary blues. Yesterday I received about 25 more Cd's. Some of these are hard to find. I am fortunate to know him and I am throughly enjoying the music. Have any of you inherited or been lucky enough to add to you library from a friend or family members library?

Welcome to the site.

Writing books and screenplays, 4 kids, 2 Hell Hounds, and the occasional MK II mod. How do you find the time?

Welcome to the site. I look forward to hearing about your new system.

Excellent!

Nice project. I like the contrast in the two woods used. I hope you show us pictures when placed into service fully loaded with your LP's. Wood working has been a hobby of mine since I took shop in High School. I like wood working projects. It is still fun for me, and I like to see others talent. Thanks for sharing.

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I just check out this John Fullbright. I like what I heard on youtube so I bought this on Amazon. Thanks, already making great music recommendation. Stick around.

Welcome Atex to the site. I still consider myself a Texan. Born in Dallas, grew up in San Angelo. Life has planted me in Maine. But I am always planning my return. My plate is full right now, but others may be interested in repairing your gear. Give it the weekend, I bet you get a PM.

Looks like a treasure trove of great music. A great find. Congrats. Wish I could help, but I have not used cassettes in a very long time.

Great Job! The video did answer a lot of questions. I like the simplicity. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting build. I am also looking forward to the action video.

Thanks Fabrokoner I will work on EAC today. I just got a bunch of CD's in. Perfect time to give it another whirl. I do want to start archiving to FLAC. You just never know. Music formats and players are constantly evolving. Having a lossless backup is great protection. I just did not give this much thought years ago when I started culling the physical cd's. As I said earlier, it is what it is. To to all who offered up their help and advice, THANKS. It is very much appreciated.

Thanks Joe. The only place I can play my music in the house is in the basement in my hobby area. I do not listen to it very loud (unless the wife is in town). Right now I am using my MXR-130 and some old Sony speakers. I primarily use my iPod as the source. I do have an old Kenwood CD player hooked up. And I have my turntable hooked up. But I rarely put vinyl on. I do have plans to change most of this with the exception of the Carver Receiver and the turntable. My garage shop I use a second Carver Receiver and some Optimus speakers and just my iPod as the source. I am generally happy with the MP3 through the speakers.

Thanks Rodney! I changed my iTunes to the higher 256 VBR. What is the difference between "normal" & "joint stereo" in the stereo mode option? What do you use to rip to FLAC? I do have the free version of Winamp on my laptop.

I have been following Rich's post: CODEC Comparison: test your gear/ears I use to just listen to my CD's. As everyone here knows, a library can take a lot of room. Still, I loved my CD's. I use to carry selected CD's with me to play in my portable Technics CD Player. So did my daughters. Then they both asked for iPods for Christmas. After playing around with their iPods I quickly ditch my portable CD player for a new 120 gig Classic iPod. I was hooked. I liked the convenience of having most of my collection with me. Not understanding the difference between MP3, lossless, ACC, FLAC I picked MP3 192bit rate as my standard. I transferred my entire collection to MP3 and started selling or trading my CD's collection. I no longer saw a need to keep them. My CD collection is just about gone. That may have been a mistake. But it is what it is. I still buy and sell CD's and I will start ripping all my future CD's to some "lossless" format for archival purposes and continue to rip to MP3 for use on my iPod. So I am looking for advice on the best iTunes MP3 encoding I should be using for use on my new 160 Gig Classic iPod. Reading Rich's post "CODEC Comparison: test your gear/ears" am I to understand that the Variable Bit Rate is the best to use. Keep in mind my hearing is poor. Pictures are of my current setting. Is this correct or should I adjust something here? Also, should the "Use error correction when reading Audio CD" be checked. Thanks for any advice. I have read and read on this subject and just really don't understand it because so there are so many choices and opinions.

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I have started dusting off my old vinyl (still in boxes). It is really bringing back fond old memories. My wife thinks I am crazy. I don't have any "Florence and the Machine" in my collection. However, I went on Amazon and listened to samples. I like it.