How I Ended up with 150 CDs, and What Should I Do With Them

11-24-2025

Yes. 150 CDs. And it was only $10. But how you might be asking. Well it actually is kinda simple. Half Price Books sells a box of assorted random CDs for $20, and I had a half off discount, so $10 for 150 CDs, or about 0.07 cents / CD, pretty sweet.

Onto what I plan to do with them. First I have to rip them all, since I have the storage + I like data archival I'm gonna do it. I need to add them all to Discogs, and finally, dump ISOs of all of them and compress them for offline archival. There is zero logical reason to do it, all of these CDs are quite common so theres no risk of data being lost forever, but it's a good habit to get into.

My plan in rip them on my main ripping rig, and then use my creation (a 2003 laptop running gentoo) to dump the ISOs (post on the laptop soon I promise, compiling just takes a really long time). I'll then upload the ripped FLACs to my homelab, as well as my laptop (I have 1TB, I'm gonna use it). The ISOs will go on the homelab as well as a cold 5400 RPM HDD for (some) form of backup.

Ripping everything is going to take QUITE some time so here we go.

Also I'm already at 8GB of FLACs just from like 10 CDs so this is gonna be a lot of space even with level 9 compression (what I'm using).

Until next time- make cool stuff!