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Divorcing..Splitting the cd collection..

Unfortunately my wife and I are divorcing. We have about 1000 cd's of which we both cherish very much.
We know splitting up the collection will be very hard if not impossible.
I suggested ripping ,if that is the right terminology ,to some kind of music server unit and make two copies so we both could enjoy the entire collection.As you probable can tell my knowledge in this area is very limited..almost nil.
Does this seem possible?
I am retiring so will have lots of time.
Any suggestions ,direction or sites that could get me started will be very much appreciated.
I should add I do not want to go the cheapest route as we/I (maybe) have a decent system and enjoy music very much.
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jaybo
4,478 posts
 
my point has been missed. her attorney is going to split the 'property'...'the real items'....taking a picture of the dog, photocopying books or burning cd's means nothing. split 'em and be done with it.'...except for the dog of course.
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glory
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OK then both of you read, His Needs Her Needs, by Willard F. Harley, Jr. and then kiss and make up.
der
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"I can't imagine any court ruling that one party should keep both copy and original because of copyright infringement."

One does indeed need an imagination to conjure up a scenario where a court would get involved. However, even though it is almost certainly a moot point, I cannot resist the urge to point out that a properly informed court considering the matter of copyright infringement would easily, instantly, absolutely, certainly, definitely, finally, unambiguously, and correctly conclude that copies possessed by one ex-spouse of CDs owned by the other ex-spouse are an infringement of the copyright holder's rights.

Ahhh, I feel better now. Rip 'em anyway. dB Poweramp is excellent, and I find it much easier to use than EAC (not as easy as iTunes, though)
phaelon
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Der, I had this dark feeling that I was wrong even as I was writing. It's just that...well, you know.
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sbank
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Thefalls,

I just dealt with the same problem for the same reason. Here's what I did:

Purchased two 1TB Iomega hard drives from Tigerdirect.com for $89/each.
Purchased a used Logitech Squeezebox3 on Agon for $160.

Ripped all the CDs via itunes onto one of the new drives with my windows xp pc, using AIFF uncompressed format(vs. apple lossless format).

Play them by having Squeezebox3 access the files from the network, and have digital output connected to input of my external dac in my audio rig(see systems page: Goosebump Factory). It was easy to setup(10 minutes) and works great. The only hiccup was wireless vs. ethernet cable from router to squeezebox, as I am in an unusually high RFI environment, yards away from a radio tower. With ethernet connection, 100% signal, and no network buffering trouble.
Cheers,
Spencer
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