On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:12:11 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

You've got to remember that 12 quid is just the cost for transferring
a single album. If you send them more than 10 the cost drops to _7.99
per album. Didn't sound too bad.

The only person who would do it cheaper would be CMOT dibbler.

if you had an hour of music it'd take at least an hour to do proper QC
on it, let alone rip it in the first place!

8 ukp over 2 hours (min) is 4ukp / hour. thats worse than manual labour
wages.


It must be automated. A good unix box can have any many soundcards
sampling at once, and as many burners going. Add a few LP and CD-Rs
autochanger and you have a process that takes virtually zero man hours.

Given the price, I can't see how else it can be done. Maybe the worst
damaged LPs are fixed by hand.

Plus... I wonder for stuff that they get in all the time (DSOM etc) if
they don't just use the same CD image over and over and just send your
record back unplayed - who would know?

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