[silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
So I have some 1,500 or so CDs and I'd like to digitize them and a reasonably high bit rate. Not all at a go - but to keep doing a handful now and then. Is there some sort of device with a hard drive and a CD player/ ripper where I can simply play from the drive when needed (with remote, 5.1 out etc) and on occasion slip a CD or a few dozen in and rip it fast - where some access to Gracenotes or such ensures titles / song data is input automatically? It'll be nice to have a drive in the TB range so DVDs can be digitized too on the same system and accessible centrally in every room of the house etc. One obvious answer might be to dedicate a laptop/computer to this and use iTunes etc - but it seems an inelegant solution - not enough ripping speed and perhaps not enough HDD space plus I really don't care for a locked Apple solutions like iTunes plus I am not sure it produces high quality sound - I do have a reasonably good set of amp, speakers and TV Any suggestions? Regards Mahesh
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So I have some 1,500 or so CDs and I'd like to digitize them and a reasonably high bit rate. Your options: Buy this hardware http://www.mfdigital.com/ripstation.html, rip and then sell hardware on ebay.. Or, mail your CDs to http://www.musicshifter.com/ and get them to do the job for you at $1 a CD. Or, hire a teenager to do it (IIRC, you may already own one). Thaths -- Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR! Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad moon rising. Marge: That's CCR! Homer: Looks like we're in for nasty weather. Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So I have some 1,500 or so CDs and I'd like to digitize them and a reasonably high bit rate. Not all at a go - but to keep doing a handful now and then. Is there some sort of device with a hard drive and a CD player/ ripper where ... One obvious answer might be to dedicate a laptop/computer to this and use iTunes etc - but it seems an inelegant solution - not enough ripping speed and perhaps not enough HDD space plus I really don't care for a locked Apple I used a windows PC, Exact Audio Copy, and just did them manually as I was doing other things. I saved them lossless and encoded them as MP3 at 192k VBR at the same time. Inelegant yes, but doing it while I was sitting at the computer anyway it only took a month or two. I sped things up a little bit by using two computers with two drives each. I like EAC because it is the best tool for lossless CD rips that I know of. None of the Linux tools were as good. -- Charles
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So I have some 1,500 or so CDs and I'd like to digitize them and a reasonably high bit rate. Not all at a go - but to keep doing a handful now and then. http://www.audiograbber.org/download.html worked well back in the day. Nowadays even after buying the CDs, I used TPB to download the mp3 torrents. It's much easier than ripping the CDs. -- Vinayak
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So I have some 1,500 or so CDs and I'd like to digitize them and a reasonably high bit rate. Not all at a go - but to keep doing a handful now and then. I did a thousand or so in 2009 and wrote lots about the process: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/02/The-Great-Music-Migration http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/21/More-Migration http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/12/Music-Migration-Done I think our tastes and constraints are quite similar. -T Is there some sort of device with a hard drive and a CD player/ ripper where I can simply play from the drive when needed (with remote, 5.1 out etc) and on occasion slip a CD or a few dozen in and rip it fast - where some access to Gracenotes or such ensures titles / song data is input automatically? It'll be nice to have a drive in the TB range so DVDs can be digitized too on the same system and accessible centrally in every room of the house etc. One obvious answer might be to dedicate a laptop/computer to this and use iTunes etc - but it seems an inelegant solution - not enough ripping speed and perhaps not enough HDD space plus I really don't care for a locked Apple solutions like iTunes plus I am not sure it produces high quality sound - I do have a reasonably good set of amp, speakers and TV Any suggestions? Regards Mahesh
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
To go farther into history - a fast digitising option that works on cassette tapes? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs? Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 12:38 pm On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So I have some 1,500 or so CDs and I'd like to digitize them and a reasonably high bit rate. Not all at a go - but to keep doing a handful now and then. I did a thousand or so in 2009 and wrote lots about the process: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/02/The-Great-Music-Migration http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/21/More-Migration http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/12/Music-Migration-Done I think our tastes and constraints are quite similar. -T Is there some sort of device with a hard drive and a CD player/ ripper where I can simply play from the drive when needed (with remote, 5.1 out etc) and on occasion slip a CD or a few dozen in and rip it fast - where some access to Gracenotes or such ensures titles / song data is input automatically? It'll be nice to have a drive in the TB range so DVDs can be digitized too on the same system and accessible centrally in every room of the house etc. One obvious answer might be to dedicate a laptop/computer to this and use iTunes etc - but it seems an inelegant solution - not enough ripping speed and perhaps not enough HDD space plus I really don't care for a locked Apple solutions like iTunes plus I am not sure it produces high quality sound - I do have a reasonably good set of amp, speakers and TV Any suggestions? Regards Mahesh
