Ripping em all!

I am in the process of converting EVERY cd to my computer. I have about 600-650 cds. I bought a 750 gig drive a week ago for just this reason. And then I am going to sell 75% of those cds...if I can. I dfont know what I'll do with the cash..save it, spend it..who knows.

Ya see..before moving to Oregon, my wife was sick of seeing all the cds stacked in our bookshelf, so she told me to get rid of em..and I agreed that they took up a lot of space, and I rarely did look at the artwork/notes anymore..so it seemed to make sense to me, though I was still hesitant to do it. So, I took out all the cds, put 'em in binders, kept the liner notes in a giant shoebox, and chucked the jewel cases. Then I am going to burn all the cds, so I still have them all as backup (or to play in the car) in case the hard drive ever fails (knock wood).
However... when I began looking at several online places to sell my cds, they either wont take the cds without the cases, or give you about 25% less. NICE. Thank you!

I am now about halfway through the burning process. Whats especially pleasant is that I have downloaded about..I dont know..100? 150? cds from torrents, friends, legally off itunes..etc..and when I go to rip 'em, the player sometimes does not recognize the track names and artist..so I have to go manually put those all in. This is less than fun. I have also noticed a few of the import and hard to find cds I have, register the wrong track names, or are blank as well. More work.

I better get some money back, thats all I gotta say.