Nostromo;202950 Wrote: > I was thinking of starting a service such as this. You do all this by > hand? So there's no current method to automate this? There are no > systems that allows you to rip a bunch of CD's at the same time? I > believe there's a need for services such as these, but I'm not sure > there's a lot of money to be made.
There's no money in it - we do it primarily as a service to our customers. You can automate to some extent, but you always have to manually extract the CDs from their cases, and we always do a tag tidy-up and set all the VA & Disc Number tags etc for Slimserver - which don't generally get set correctly. If you automate, you'll just get whatever tags come off the on-line database, so its garbage-in, garbage-out. I don't know about other services, but I suspect they are more aimed at MP3 ripping - so a few errors here and there don't matter - and it's always the small percentage of discs that have problems that take the time. Those and the ones for which there's no on-line info ... -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35311 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
