We actually rip straight to wav files at the moment with filename encoding of metadata. Looking for a more robust method though. Last I tried rdimport binary did not properly decode my flac files' metadata on import so you need to cross check its metadata support with your ripper software/current files. On Feb 1, 2015 11:28 AM, "Andy Sayler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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