Question about CDs and border crossing

[Dan J 277]

Ive sent burned cds with less than legal content on them through the mail system. So far, nothing has gotten lost. Usually I label them pretty cryptically so the person I'm sending the stuff too knows what it is, but no one else does. 500+ might arose suspicion, but I don't think that they would actually look at whats on them. Putting them into a computer to see the contents is too much of a security risk. But in my opinion, taking 2 portable hard drives with the same exact copy of the data would be much better choice. 2 just in case something happens to one, your not screwed. Preferably sent via different methods (One carry on, the other posted)

[jlivings99 0]

My husband's 300+ CDs were shipped from the UK via comtainer ship (with other household items). There were 2-3 boxes labelled "CDs" and listed as "boxes of CDs" on the customs forms. Boxes were not opened. Customs charged us $22 to xray all of the boxes and that seems to have been the extent of their inspection.

[sapa_uscan 0]

My husband's 300+ CDs were shipped from the UK via comtainer ship (with other household items). There were 2-3 boxes labelled "CDs" and listed as "boxes of CDs" on the customs forms. Boxes were not opened. Customs charged us $22 to xray all of the boxes and that seems to have been the extent of their inspection.

it really depends how much YOU WANT to take it with you... there are ways to carry over, from physical CDs to ripping them to external hard drives and carry those along with you.

If you consider the cost of external had drives it's fairly cheap to own one, for all your needs. You can possibly rip ~5000 CDs on a 250GB hard drive-- all at very good quality!

In addition, converting them to MP3 now will mean that you are making yourself ready for the future... where you will be using MP3 (or other formats) in you iPOD, etc., etc. Yes, it will take you days or months to convert these to the electronic format of your choice, but that's why i said: it all comes down to how much you really love your collection.

Here's a cool drive:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...0&CatId=523

my 2 cents! i know i will be doing this. I already have almost every CD I own in MP3 format. )

[mybackpages 0]

I use I-tunes and I think for that it would be easy to get a printout of the account number etc. Do y ou buy music from a variety of sources? Do you have any receipts (credit card statements etc) ? I agree with everyone else that you will probably be fine, but you never know how they will handle it until you go through customs.

Maybe you can bringa copy on the hard disk and your cds and keep a spare copy at home with a relative or friend just to be extra safe?