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Somehow I feel this thread is going the way of a commercial. While it's clear that having ripping and storage all in one box without having to power up a computer has some appeal, ask yourself if you really want to rely on
- automated ripping
The only two pieces of software that can more or less guarantee bit-perfect rips are EAC and, if you own a Plextor drive, Plextools Pro. The catch - these are both for Windows. CDparanoia on Linux works as well, provided you have a drive with no audio cache, which is rare these days. Maybe you could telnet in and find out their ripping method, and maybe it's kosher but that's way too many maybes in my book.
- closed storage
It seems the Hifidelio's disk is encrypted, meaning you can not by normal means get your data out of there again. The whole point of ripping a CD is only having to do it once.
So I, personally, wouldn't use it for ripping or for storage of my master ripped files. For playback it's a fine piece of equipment I'm sure, but for that we use a Squeezebox.
C.
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