Hi Cheryl, Recently I ran into the space prob myself. Two cabinets full of slim cases, at the time over 200 CD's, now the number is well over 300. The ogg files will be just as durable on CD as MP3, but rather than tamper with the actual files, I threw out my slims. I'm now in the process of moving the cd's to large binders which can be carried over the shoulder. Each one holds 208 cd's, costs $30 canadian, and takes up less than one tenth of the space of all those cabinets. This also has the advantage that I don't have to toss out all my otherwise perfectly good CD's and burn new, saving oodles of time and money. Right now, I am examining database programs which index the contents of data cd's, and write it to a text file. I will then put the text file on a disk, and stick it in the front of the first binder. The text file will report the page and disk number of each book, even if I have to go in and do this much myself, and then I will know exactly where to put my hands on any book any time. The only problem I might run into is if my sister comes over and pulls all the disks out then doesn't replace them in the proper order, lol. I will place my favourite database program on the library website when I decide which my favourite is, and if you're interested, I will send you the link so you can check it out. Hope this helps, Erik ----- Original Message ----- From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: speakup <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: Durability of burned cds with .ogg files > Hi all. > I have a really large collection of CDs, which of course takes up a lot of > space. I have been considering converting a lot of these to .ogg files and > putting the .ogg files onto cd. I wondered how durable the CDs/.ogg files would > be. In people's experience, do the CDs malfunction or the files corrupt after a > period of time or do they have as reasonable a lifespan as normal CDs? Also, I > had debated whether I should be converting to .ogg files or .mp3 files. I > frankly like the .ogg files better. the only advantage to .mp3 files would be > that I could put them on an mp3 player that plays mp3 cds. However, I do have > both a laptop computer and desktop computer with sound so I don't know that this > would really matter to me so much. > Any advice and comments would be welcome. > Thanks. > > Cheryl > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
