Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Wednesday 02 Feb 2011 1:28:08 pm another.prufr...@gmail.com wrote: To go farther into history - a fast digitizing option that works on cassette tapes? This is the single most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I used a portable (Walkman) player to play the cassette to record 60 MB MP3s in which all the songs were joined up. Audiograbber was the program I used and it has the option of splitting songs if there is a break in sound for a period of time that you can specify - but the process was undependable. Hence each MP3 had one side of a tape - but heck I could turn it on for recording and go away for half an hour and often managed one or two cassettes a day with 2-3 visits to a desktop dedicated to this job over 90 minutes or so. I later sat and used sound editors like Goldwave or Adobe Audition to split the files into individual songs and saved them - renaming them with an appropriate program. CDs can be ripped straight to MP3s in the background and all you need to do is to remember to put one in when you sit down in front of your machine and repeat that as often as you can. I also manually digitised the 50 or so gramophone records I had. Apart from this I converted about 200 hours of VHS tape into VCD quality and later DVD quality video and scanned 1500 transparencies and about 200 ancient B/W negatives. I have a desktop dedicated to jobs such as this. PS the video below is a song I digitised from a cassette tape which was itself a copy of something I borrowed from a library in Bolton (England) - a rare one from The Who. As soon as I uploaded it YouTube informed me that the video had content that was probably copyrighted and the video would not be available in Germany. Sorry about that to all you folks in Germany :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTTvqKb3aU shiv
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:32:40AM +1100, Charles Haynes wrote: 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. Still true? Can you rip to FLAC, too? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:32:40AM +1100, Charles Haynes wrote: 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. Still true? Can you rip to FLAC, too? As far as I know, but since it does everything I want I haven't been motivated to keep current on the state of the art. Yes, it will rip to FLAC, lossless AAC, and WAV. FLAC is what I use for an archive format. It use LAME as an outboard MP3 encoder (if you want MP3) EAC is free as in beer. -- Charles
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
Is there no simple consumer-friendly solution that doesn't involve such uber-hacking? :)
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Is there no simple consumer-friendly solution that doesn't involve such uber-hacking? :) Of course there is, you can mail them to a service as mentioned earlier. It's just not as cheap or as high a quality as a fanatic would want. But it's simple, and consumer friendly. -- Charles
Re: [silk] Any ideas on a digitiser / ripper - player for CDs?
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Is there no simple consumer-friendly solution that doesn't involve such uber-hacking? :) Consumer-friendly, eh? Then forget my hire a teenager suggestion. 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
[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
