> The time to physically go through all those CDs, now that's a slightly > different issue.
Once you've setup your "rip" tool (I used mostly `grip` back then, not sure what's still maintained, maybe `abcde`?), it's a small matter of putting the next CD in the drive when the previous one is ejected (i.e. every 10 minutes or so). I did it while doing other things on my computer. The hardest part is labeling the resulting audio files: while some CDs have good data in CDDB and friends (so the rip tool can do a good job auto-labeling), not all do, sadly. Stefan