CMM’s old photo is touching. It’s one’s life. The journey of how we became.
Like others, I have my photos, just not on display like before. Still, it’s my life. One I’ve grown rather attach too. Lol.
For your digitizing project, it sounds like you have quite a bit of media. An extensive and cherished collection. Is it mostly audio (CD) or video (DVD)? The later requires plenty more storage space and project time if one is doing it themselves.
I’ve utilize a professional publishing service for transferring over things like my wedding video from VHS to DVD and MPEG format.
By the sounds of your stated samples, digital rights management would not hamper this process. For audio I’ve had good success with MediaMonkey. Both for transferring, organizing, and playback of my mp3 library. Caveat, my version of software is a few years not current, however I did Google search and it still exists. I wouldn’t suspect they’ve crippled their software so one would expect even better performance.
Video can be more problematic. Depending upon codec employed it can be rather aggravating. The resolution to the fight between Windows vs Apple products gets onerous in this arena. And at times, next to impossible. Still, it is doable.
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Feelings are fleeting. Be better, not bitter. Love the person, forgive the sin.