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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

ninjamurf — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:24:51 EDT

So I know that everyone is going to have their own opinion on any list anyone ever puts out. Personally I would have put the White album above Sgt. Pepper. Although Sgt. Pepper is still awesome so you can't really argue that much. But Pet Sounds at number 2!? What am I missing? I LOVE the Beach Boys but no way would I put any of their stuff in the top 10? And Dark Side comes in at number 43? That thing was in the Top 200 for almost 14 straight years! Fourteen...straight...years. And it was only taken off after a "rule change" to the Top 200 grading. Sure, you can argue that sales don't equal impact but can anyone truly argue that for Dark Side? Still...nice list. I'll be "going out" and "acquiring" these shortly.

ninjamurf

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

OMG! Ponies! — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:06:55 EDT

@something_unique_and_descriptive: Why does it have to be a "do it all at once" thing? Ever ripped an entire CD collection? It's not hard once you look at it as a project that can be done over a period of time.

Do 10 a night while watching TV and maybe knock out 30 or so on a Saturday and/or a Sunday while watching a ball game. The advantage (other than money) is that it's easier to clean up. Putting away 10 CDs at a time is easier than putting away 500.

OMG! Ponies!

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

kylo4 — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:33:17 EDT

@bitfactory: This issue was from 2003 and all of the albums were actually voted on by hundreds of professional musicians and industry folk (who are listed at the back of that issue) Rolling Stone didn't "hand pick" them like most people think. A lot of work went into it.

kylo4

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

TechnoDestructo — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:06:06 EDT

@josejuan05:

It also depends what you're listening to.

TechnoDestructo

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

TechnoDestructo — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:05:08 EDT

I count 22 albums I could ever imagine myself listening to. And a lot of those DO have throwaway tracks.

TechnoDestructo

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

mricyfire — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:03:35 EDT

anyone who says 128-320 cant tell difference or whatever...add a sub to the mix and you will quickly understand.

My stereo system pushes 1010watts with a 10in sub...music for me goes 192 or higher.

p.s. 500 albums is puny...i have 1500 plus :)

mricyfire

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

gstar — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:58:55 EDT

It looks like I own a lot of these albums. I see a lot of good ones on there that I will one day own as well. For me, half the fun is buying the cd, ripping it, and placing the cd in the collection with the others. That's what makes a collection a collection.

gstar

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

josejuan05 — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:30:19 EDT

@Andham:
I find your lack of hearing disturbing. 128 kbps is horrible sounding, even on an iPod. Either you don't know what you're talking about, you've never actually listened discriminately, or you don't really care.

josejuan05

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

Yeebles — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:54:55 EDT

a nail in the coffin in physical formats? Personally I love owning CDs. After i borrow a friends album r get songs sent between email I will buy the album if it is any good.

Yeebles

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

Kareem King — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:55:46 EDT

Just 500 albums. I laugh in the face of your puny music collections.

Kareem King

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

G for GRENADE — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:02:04 EDT

If they can put it on one big zip-drive, I'm sold!

G for GRENADE

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

FrancesTheMute — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:50:44 EDT

@B1663R: Most of those listed are the top 500 SONGS of all time, not albums

FrancesTheMute

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

pixelslave — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:42:21 EDT

If the files are lossless, album includes cover art, ID3 tag includes all musicians info, plus lyrics, then I am sold -- that can take a long times to do, frankly. Think about it, if 500 album contains 4000 songs, doing all the stuffs mentioned above probably will take you at least 5 minutes per song (including ripping.) That's over 333 hours of work. To the person who says he would do it at $500 -- that's $1.5 an hour. Even Wal-Mart pays better than that!

pixelslave

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

bms — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:06:26 EDT

@Joseph: Exactly! Although all that music and more is already available via torrent.

bms

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

bitfactory — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:05:17 EDT

The only problem I have with this is that it's Rolling Stone. Honestly, RS hasn't been relevant for decades. This month they have the 'Hills' on their cover for f's sake - why would anyone trust their music advice?

bitfactory

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

B1663R — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:56:14 EDT

@Joseph: yep. i was just going to say that but i have proof...

[www.pizzatorrent.com]

B1663R

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

Joseph — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:08:46 EDT

@rrwakc: Oh the torrent will come out.

Joseph

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

ibelli — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:58:33 EDT

Rolling Stone have their heads way too far up their asses with that list. Way to much Beatles in the top 20. WAY to much.

ibelli

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

rrwakc — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:46:49 EDT

allmost forgot 192kbps at 44khz

rrwakc

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

Hvedhrungr — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:44:54 EDT

I suppose if you've got everything else, like a (few) fast car(s), big house(s), ridiculous stereo setup, trophy wife and maybe the original tuxedo from the first James Bond movie, you may as well go for this.
Because at that point, you have people you pay to buy things for you, right?

Hvedhrungr

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

rrwakc — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:43:27 EDT

2,46 GB that is the size of rolling stone magazine top 500. And in preaty good quality from 2.5MB/song to 16.5MB/song average is about 5MB/song, so you can put them on 4GB on usb stick whit playlist and media player.

Oh and they were all ripped from original CDs(not from the net) and have m3u info. Maybe I should put it on some torrent or something.

rrwakc

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

rrrrrrright — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:20:23 EDT

@matthewgerber: yeah that's where you're wrong. at least for a few hundred of the albums, they dont have throwaway tracks. that's what makes a good album. find a song on Highway 61 Revisited that you can kick off the album without making it incomplete.

and i haven't really looked at this list since that issue came out a few years ago, but it even has a couple Pavement albums and such on it.

of course it's got whole albums that i cant fucking stand, like U2 and Def Leppard. it's also got albums that all the cool kids are supposed to like but i just cant get in to, like Country Life.

rrrrrrright

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

matthewgerber — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:26:17 EDT

500 greatest albums on RAID - 1 or 2 decent songs per album = approximately 4000 waste songs you'll likely never listen to

matthewgerber

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

something_unique_and_descriptive — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:29:20 EDT

Okay, it's pretty obvious many of you haven't even glanced at the article or thought about how much the people who would be buying this sort of things time is worth.

First, they don't just get a couple of drives, they get a full NAS/RAID Array, All of the physical discs, and a coffee table book (wooo, a coffee table book).

Second, buying one of these is going to be a LOT faster than ripping and encoding 500 CDs, let's say each disc takes five minutes to rip and encode, if you ripped one after another, with zero seconds spend changing disks, or doing anything else... it would still take over two days. Now consider that the type of person who would be in their target market likely makes over $75 an hour and the cost benefit goes away.

Some of you have said "they could just download them from iTune". Believe it or not, not everything works with stuff bought from iTunes... and you don't get the physical media... and you have to supply your own drives.

Could you do it cheaper? Sure you could, but you could also make a hamburger for less than you pay at McDonalds... it would probably be better too... but you don't. Why? Because it's a pain in the ass... same thing here, they're paying for convenience. When you look at it that way it's not quite as stupid as it initially seems... don't get me wrong it's still stupid, just not quite as stupid.

something_unique_and_descriptive

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

kylo4 — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:15:29 EDT

I have this right by my bed (the original magazine) and I've been buying/downloading most of them. I have the top 15 at least.

kylo4

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

TonyRockyHorror — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:10:07 EDT

[500albumsrjg.blogspot.com]

my friend Ross is review all 500 of these albums, 2 a day/5 days a week, and also reviewing the original Rolling Stone review of these albums.

it's a pretty fantastic and in depth project.

TonyRockyHorror

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

DavidPFarrell — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:57:55 EDT

I've been working on this list for awhile now and I've got 242 checked off - Literally, I printed the list and check them off as I go - I also maintain a spreadsheet.

MagnoliaBoy : So Right! While building my MP3 collection, I totally destroyed my first ripping drive.

DavidPFarrell

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

Andham — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:49:56 EDT

@daftrok: Who cares?

Im perfectly satisfied with all my 128-320kbps bit rate stuff, because all im gonna do is listen to it on my iPod, and you can't really tell a difference there.

Andham

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

dan — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:46:03 EDT

@daftrok: If you don't have a large number of the albums already, odds are you're not the kind of person who'd care about 128kb.

dan

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

daftrok — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:20:19 EDT

@daversW:
But the quality on iTunes is ass compared to this RAID server.

daftrok

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

TheHumanMan — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:14:01 EDT

Greatest Hits shouldn't count as albums. There, I said it.

Oh, oh, it comes with a "handsome coffee table book of the collection to show off too" (sic). So really, $8950 for the music. I'm ready to kickstart the economy! Who's with me?

TheHumanMan

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

daversW — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:05:22 EDT

but $9000/500cds = $18 per CD

average CD on itunes (or whatever you prefer) is $10 * 500 = $5000.

all you have to do is click "download" 500 times, and let it go to work, it should be done in a day or so, and you have just saved yourself $4000, not to mention that you could not buy all the CDs you dont want

daversW

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

mechfluff — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:51:35 EDT

So, does this mean I can sell my mp3 collection on some relatively cheap RAIDs for 9g per 500 albums?

COUNT ME IN!

Where are these rich people who don't understand ripping?

mechfluff

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

djdare — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:42:11 EDT

but your way can you say "yah, totally bought this whole set up from Terra San, I don't even know who joni mitchell is, but apparently they were good"... I mean clearly the target audience for this, much like rolling stone itself isn't real music aficionados...

but seriously, court and spark didn't even crack the top 100?!? wtf? and can't buy a thrill is 238?!? that's fucking retarded. M.I.A.'s Arular and Daft Punk's Discovery didn't even make the list?! yah fuck this list.

djdare

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

MagnoliaBoy — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:41:43 EDT

As long as it's your CDRom drive, I'll do it for $500.

MagnoliaBoy

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

Skorpius — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:39:30 EDT

In a lossless codec, I would hope.

Skorpius