Comment Cost vs teenagers... (Score 1) 133
Teenagers need a highly disposable income, so in the end, a compromise between yourself and machine is the best option!
I recommended looking for a cheap 2nd hand CD/CDR tower they've been around for years - 7 x SCSI CD readers (maybe even CD-R/RW drives depending on what you find)... in a tower you plug into your PC with a SCSI interface.. grab some CD ripping software that works from a shell/command line (eg cdrdao/lame).. script it up and rip 7 CD's at once... may not do the whole 300 in one go but you do 7 at once, and it's relatively fast and cheap for one of these boxes nowadays as it's obsolete technology.
At the end of the day after your CD's are on your new ipod you can use it as a doorstop or put it on ebay for someone else to rip another 300 CD's. If I didn't describe this piece of equipment properly search for 'cd tower scsi' on ebay to get an idea. I don't know if there may be newer versions of this contraption based on sata, and it all depends on your budget.
Check your local classifieds, I picked mine up for $50 if there are no decent online deals. Heck mine is being used here as a doorstop...
I recommended looking for a cheap 2nd hand CD/CDR tower they've been around for years - 7 x SCSI CD readers (maybe even CD-R/RW drives depending on what you find)... in a tower you plug into your PC with a SCSI interface.. grab some CD ripping software that works from a shell/command line (eg cdrdao/lame).. script it up and rip 7 CD's at once... may not do the whole 300 in one go but you do 7 at once, and it's relatively fast and cheap for one of these boxes nowadays as it's obsolete technology.
At the end of the day after your CD's are on your new ipod you can use it as a doorstop or put it on ebay for someone else to rip another 300 CD's. If I didn't describe this piece of equipment properly search for 'cd tower scsi' on ebay to get an idea. I don't know if there may be newer versions of this contraption based on sata, and it all depends on your budget.
Check your local classifieds, I picked mine up for $50 if there are no decent online deals. Heck mine is being used here as a doorstop...
