Services & Prices
mp3Geo is a music conversion service. What you can expect:
Direct Communication
mp3Geo works one project at a time. Special care is taken to ensure that all options and desired outcomes are thoroughly discussed and mutually understood.
Whether you are ready to go or still pondering, drop me a line and we'll get a conversation going.
Personal Service
- Customized game-plan creation.
- Pick-up and return of all CDs. No freight charges!
- Initial music load onto your computer and/or player.
- Help with iTunes and iPods.
- Plenty of follow-up support.
Speedy Work
Your new digital music library of tens of thousands of songs can be iPod-ready in a matter of days.
Affordable Price
70 cents per disc for a one-format rip. Or,
$1.00 per disc for the rip and a lossless archive! Or,
Free if you 'pay' with the discs themselves.
See the sidebar to the right for more about the free option and the value of the lossless archive.
Want To Delve Deeper?
Have a look at the Q & A section here.
For a primer on compression rates and other digitizing considerations, have a look at the sidebar column here.
And then...let's get started!
or (530) 308-0876.
The 'Free' Option
Once my music had been digitized, the CDs receded into the background. For a time they were housed in racks lining the hallway. During and after a remodel, they migrated to the garage. It wasn't long before I realized that I was only accessing the discs in order to file new ones. Eventually I started casting them off. More than half of them are gone, with more to follow. Here's the thing: I've been a music lover and collector for almost my whole life, yet I don't miss the discs.
This probably has something to do with the fact that I was never all that impressed with CD packaging to begin with. Jewel cases have a cheapness about them. The liner notes, if any, are microscopic. Cover art is less than a quarter of the size of LPs. Good riddance, I say.
Assuming your CDs are in good shape and you are ready to be done with them, I can indeed accept them as payment. And if you aren't sure about it, think of me when you are. I'll likely still be interested in refunding your payment in exchange.
Your Own Archive
In the digital world, CDs are a lousy backup archive. Should something go awry with your working music library and CDs are your only backup, you're left to re-rip them, one at a time. Veterans of this exercise know what a time-consuming yawner that process is.
If you have a lossless archive, you have the perfect safeguard against disaster. Lossless files can be used to create perfect reproductions of the original CD files, and can be re-converted to any bit rate and encoding type you desire.
If you are seriously thinking about ridding yourself of your CDs, a lossless archive is the way to go.