I've ripped all of my collection to mp3, ripping the last of my wife's collection. The only albums she's keeping are the really rare ones as backup. Thought about a CD jukebox for years, then thought "Why would I want to deal with mechanisms? There's no benefit". Started to build a touchscreen juke, need to get back to it. My local arcade bought a jukebox and the player failed so he replaced the entire CD mech with a hard drive direct plugin. Now not only is it reliable, but he can control it remotely from his front desk.

I doubt I would start a thread, there isn't much to setting up the software. The software I was messing around with is called Zenpoint digital center. Here's a video of some other guy showing it off:

There's a trial version, the full version is $39? He talks about buying a touchscreen from monoprice, but a 24" monitor is still going to run you $300. I bought a working 21" touch monitor for like $50 on ebay. Basically it was a hospital monitor, corner of the bezel got a crack so they sold it off. If your'e really interested, I would go download the software on your computer, use your mouse to click around, see how to setup directories and have it auto grab album art.. If you like it, you can go to the next step of finding a monitor, whatever desktop you want to use with it, and a nice amp/speaker setup.

http://www.download.zenpoint.org/Download

Yea but is it REALLY worth that? Discogs is an open market like ebay. Yes they want $560, but is someone really going to give them that? I'm only aware of that site because there was a bunch of albums called "edit crazy" by a local chicago DJ named Bobby D on a station that still exists today called B96 that you would likely only find locally. It was all mixed house music that I grew up with. 10 years ago you could still buy them for about $15, now there aren't any for sale. Luckily I have most of them on mp3 either by ripping what I had, or finding them on ebay.

Maybe I'm not old fashioned, but I can't fathom having to fumble through CD's to find the song I'm looking for. My mp3 NAS is somewhat organized (could be better), but I have a section for full albums, then I have categories for random songs like cover songs, comedy, mashups.. it's so nice to be able to just throw a folder, or a chunk of songs into a player, and just quickly flip through songs. It's also nice to be able to simply use windows search like all songs with *dance* in the title.