Hi Bill We've been using a MF-Digital RipStation 7601-XDP for years: https://wiki.wmfo.org/Operations/Music_Department/Ripper-7601XDP. That said, it looks like that model has now be discontinued in favor of their more-complex multi-drive models. Prior to the 7601-XDP, we used a Recordex RX100PC: http://www.allprosound.com/catalog/product-details-discontinued~fprodid~7201.htm. It has also now been discontinued.
We use MF Digital's RipStation software with the 7601-XDP. Prior to that, we used dbPowerAmp's batch ripping module with the RX100PC. Both sets of software supports metadata lookups via MusicBrainz, etc, and spit out rejected CDs (e.g. one's with no metadata) to a separate rejects pile where we can review and manually rip them. We rip to flac and then have a set of scripts that perform various filtering and classification operations, read the flac metadata, convert the files to wav, and import them into Rivendell. We've had to do our ripping from a Windows machine since Linux autoripper drivers and software have been hard to come by. We rip to a network share which is then accessed via a Linux machine running nightly cron jobs kicking off the import system. See https://wiki.wmfo.org/Operations/Code/Automatic_CD_Import_System for details on the process. We currently have about 12 TB worth of music in our digital collection, which translates to having ripped approximately 25,000 CDs over the last 5+ years. We're a Freeform station that used to have a very large and diverse CD collection, all of which as been converted to lossless digital at this point. We could not have done this without our auto-rippers. That said, we have burned through a number of the rippers over the years. I believe we went through two RX100PCs before switching to the RipStation 7601-XDP, and we're on at least our second one of those. Ripping several hundred CDs per week had generally only lead each ripper to last a year or two. Our rip rate was higher early on, so the newer rippers have lasted longer since we've finished ripping the existing collection and now only must rip the 10s of CDs that come into the station each week. The biggest killer of these devices for us has been slightly out-of-spec CDs that re a bit larger then they should be, thus jamming the device and leading the gears stripping or motors dying. Babysitting the rippers and quickly catching and resolving such jams minimizes the damage they cause, but that kind of subverts the point of an auto ripper in the first place. So my advice would be to look for a solution in the $500 to $1000 range and plan on replacing it every few years. Buying extended warranties, where available, may be beneficial if you know you'll be ripping a lot of CDs and thus will likely break your ripper in the course of 1 to 2 years of operation. You'll also need to plan to spend a little bit of time coordinating various pieces of software to get everything from the ripper into Rivendell since Rivendell doesn't have any native batch-ripping support (or at least none that I know of or that interfaces with any of the rippers we've used). Cheers, Andy Sayler WMFO Medford On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that robotic CD handlers have come down out of the stratosphere > price-wise, I was wondering if anyone has experimented with one to rip > material for Rivendell? > > I guess I see this happening on a Mac or PC outputting some metadata > tagged intermediate file format that RDimport can deal with (like FLAC). It > seems to me that Fred G. once told me that Rivendell could deal with > metadata in Chart Chunk but I don't know of a ripper that really knows how > to store stuff that way. Personally I'd be really happy to have 44.1 > Ksps/16 bit PCM Stereo files without any intermediate conversion but that > seems to be problematic from the metadata transport perspective. > > The other question about automatic ripping is, does anyone know of a > ripper that can make and exception list of the missing metadata? Since we > have to deal with SoundExchange royalty reports, having an automated ripper > rip 100 CD's with missing metadata creates a mess that's a hassle to clean > up. I want to go look in each file to see if all the required the data is > there. Better to have a .csv file that shows what metadata was collected > and what's missing for the rip run. Then it's easier to go back and clean > it up. > > I was looking at this handler from Acronova. Anyone have any others that > are in the price range that has worked in a Rivendell importing scheme > they've worked out? > > Acronova Nimbie > <http://www.acronova.com/product/auto-blu-ray-duplicator-publisher-ripper-nimbie-usb-nb21/9/review.html> > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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