My old lecturer has kindly loaned me a 2TB lacie drive off his classical music that is a total dream containing complete sets such as the Philips Complete Mozart Works (180) CD, The Leonard Bernstein Symphony Edition with The New York Symphony (60CD's), Bach Cantatas Box set, Gardiner - SDG Label (51CD's), Horowitz Complete Recordings - The Private Collection (24 CD series), Herbert von Karajan – Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon (240CD's), The Elgar Collection (30CD) along with rare and apparently fantastic Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli piano recordings of Beethoven No.5 Emperor with the Wiener Symphony regarded as a classic and other Michelangeli recordings and a complete Arthur Rubenstein collection.

I have recently been buying classical music from various souses like Amazon, Spotfy and other sites but a chance meeting off my old music lecturer (after 15 years ) has opened a whole new world off premium classical music to me that I could never have dreamed off owning never mind affording but has me a little confused in how to go about saving what he kindly has offered me onto my own hard drive system and taking up needless space as once extracted, as a lot will be duplicated in the extracted folders ( ie RAR files, flac files & cue sheets etc, then the transcoded AIFF files.) I hope you can help a relative newbe as far as how best to store music given to me as a gift to increase my classical knowledge and repertoire and save space as well on an external hard drive and what is best practise for the digital era in storing my music properly.

Some kind of wonderful ost rar files