I have thought about this myself, and ultimately just got a mega cd changer because I am lazy and don't feel like building a dedicated machine to serve as my jukebox.

A 74-minute cd holds 650MB, an 80 minute holds 700MB. Taking the ratio of MB/min on the 80 minute cd is slightly less (8.75) than on the 74 minute so lets use that. Since many cds do not occupy the entire disk it is more useful to think about minutes of music stored at cd quality.

(100GB disk)/(8.75MB/min) = ~11,400 min
Assuming cd's average 50 minutes, that's 228 cds. Not too shabby storage really.

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