On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mahesh Murthy <[email protected]> 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
