What should I get just for transferring 500 cds?
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500 CD's averaging 15 tracks per CD is a total of 7500 tracks. The iPod Touch 32 gig holds approximately 7,000 songs. A 40GB MP3 player will hold approximately 10,000 songs, but they are hard drive based and aren't designed for rough usage. 40 GB hard drive players are pretty hard to find these days so she might have to sacrifice some songs. She most likely doesn't actually listen to 500 CD's on a regular basis and you can always set iTunes to auto-rotate the songs for for fresh content. An alternative to the iPod Touch is the iPod Classic which packs 160 GB (around 40.000 songs) of storage. They are but around $250. The iPod Touch is also available in 64GB for a higher cost (around $300). An alternative to those two iPods is the Zune HD which packs 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes as well. These are considerably cheaper than the iPod equivilent. They also offered a 120 GB Zune (non-HD) but the price will vary as they are no longer manufactured. Sony also makes highly-regarded MP3 players that are comparable to MS and Apple. Besides These three companies, I can't really recommend buying anything else. I've owned all different types of MP3 players from Creative, Toshiba, Samsung, Sandisk, and the MS Zune but none of them come close to the tight integration that iTunes and iPod have. Every time I hit the sync button I'm confident the iPod will have exactly the songs I want on it. With Windows Media Player or the Zune software, a lot of the time it will end up partially syncing and some songs will duplicate. Album art is also a nightmare on these. As much as I don't like Apple's business model, their software and hardware are pretty hard to beat.
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one of the reasons why i bought it is to get away from optical drives and unreliable storage media. no more spinning disks, no cd's to worry about scratching. get a dual channel usb drive, fast class 6 sdhc cards, use truecrypt to encrypt data, etc.
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Yes, you should be able to. Using the Apple USB Superdrive. I transferred about 40 music and photo CDs using this excellent drive. Very fast. Good luck.
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Thank you--the "bootable sd cards" sounds like a more appealing alternative. I'm not wild about the idea of having an external CD/DVD drive--kind of defeats the purpose of this highly portable option. Thank you!
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You can use pretty much any USB external cd, DVD, or bluray burner or player. The drivers are usually preloaded so there should be no issues.
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For pictures, I use Verbatim CD-R discs without any fuss. They transfer directly from my Canon camera without any drama. I'm sure you'll get a more complete better answer from a more knowledgeable computer user
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None really, I've had both and never found any real pros or cons, to each his on I guess. The download can be re-issued without cost in the event of loss of data (don't let anyone tell you otherwise) so the only real benefit of the CD is an actual hard copy. But saying that the program itself is tiny so, a disk copy has always been overkill to me. I keep a mobile version on my USB at all times, so a hard copy gives me nothing.
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Yes you would need to buy something to put the CD in, I hope that this is helpful. There are a lot of discs, but I like the program.
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I have to agree I have basic basic, and I have an external drive as well. Gets me where I am going and works I Have the CD DVD player, external and it does a decent job. You can go to best buy or even here at Amazon. a lot less desk clutter and having wireless, none of the giant cords.
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No diff. between the two. I have 80gB just cuz I have milions of cds and dvds. It just depends on you. 30GB is a lot though, but I chose 80Gb just in case.
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Any Class 10, SDHC card will do. San Disk 32 gig Extreme HD video Class 10, 45 mb/s transfer rate is a good one.
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I had to buy an external hard drive with a CD/DVD, storage, and burn ability. I use the latest Word, Power point, and data program; they work very well and fast. I am very satisfied.
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It's recommended to transfer to a drive equal in size or larger. I don't think it will work out well going from more to less.
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If you want store your CD with their jewel case, here the one will work for it, ASIN: B00F470F2M Thanks, MegaDisc.
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Depends on the file system you use, out of the box it can transfer files upto ~64GB
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Why use a Cd changer when you can rip all of those CDs onto one mini thumb drive and be done with it?
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The disk and a software cd (and a manual I think, can't remember), you will need another equipment if you want to clone your old disk