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Kid borrows all of my Rock-n-Roll CDs

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Posted on December 7, 2016 at 12:31:07
jedrider
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 Then sheepishly asks me, by the way, how do I play a CD? Do I need all of THAT stuff, pointing to my sprawling array of wires and equipment.

I told her we'll have to talk about that. But she was just happy holding all of that great music in her hands.

 

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RE: Kid borrows all of my Rock-n-Roll CDs, posted on December 7, 2016 at 18:06:20
Chip647
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 Kid would have to schlep hundreds of pounds to hold all my Rock-n-Roll CDs, or pick up my 1Tb SSD. You still play Cee Dees?

 

Oh man....., posted on December 7, 2016 at 18:25:53
Awe-d-o-file
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 The possible comebacks to that......


ET

"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936

 

+1 I don't play CDs. I store them., posted on December 7, 2016 at 18:44:22
AbeCollins
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 I rip my CDs to SSD in my music server. My CDs are stored in the basement.

 

RE: +1 I don't play CDs. I store them., posted on December 7, 2016 at 19:18:19
painter27
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 I'm sorry, but I find that sad.

I love digging through my albums & CD's looking for inspiration.

Besides that, I spent all this money on equipment to play it, now I have to spend more money & time on equipment to not play it.

 

+1...(nt), posted on December 7, 2016 at 20:47:18
mkuller
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 (nt)

 

RE: +1 I don't play CDs. I store them., posted on December 7, 2016 at 21:46:57
AbeCollins
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 I love digging through my albums & CD's looking for inspiration.

Me too, as I scroll thru my albums and metadata on the iPad remote control running the Roon app. What's a CD player? ;-)



 

Nothing that a twenty-step procedure cannot solve, posted on December 7, 2016 at 22:48:25
jedrider
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 which beats having to buy a turntable if she ever cared to borrow some vinyl. Got to get a decent ADC some day.

 

+1 , posted on December 8, 2016 at 06:30:05
E-Stat
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 Like the old Yellow Pages ad used to say, "let your fingers do the walking!"

 

RE: Kid borrows all of my Rock-n-Roll CDs, posted on December 8, 2016 at 06:40:47
Inmate51
 " Do I need all of THAT stuff,"

The answer would be "yes, and you'll like it".

:)

 

RE: +1 I don't play CDs. I store them., posted on December 8, 2016 at 06:49:34
Inmate51
 I'm kinda the opposite of Jedrider's daughter - I don't know how to "rip" my CDs to a hard drive *conveniently*. I've used Sound Forge to do that a few times for record albums, but then I have to chop up the recording to separate the tracks into, well, tracks, or record each track separately, both of which are a PITA.

If you can point me to a good Windoze-based "ripping" software where I can eliminate the agonzing part of it, I will install my brand spankin' new 1 TB drive which has been sitting on a shelf for 2 years, AND, I'll be eternally grateful.

:)

 

RE: Vinyl Ripping Software for PC & Mac, posted on December 8, 2016 at 08:06:14
AbeCollins
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 The best software for ripping LP's is probably Pure Vinyl by Channel D but it's for Mac only and it's a bit pricey. Click HERE for the review.

There's an inmate here who uses Vinyl Studio which is supposed to be pretty good and not very difficult. It's available for Mac and Windows. I'm not sure that it eliminates ALL the agony of ripping vinyl but I believe it has some 'automation' built-in.

I just used the free Audacity software which runs on Mac & Windows but it's very 'manual' in nature. I rip the entire side one then side two of my album in two separate very large files. I then used Audacity's editing feature to 'separate' the individual tracks and input the metadata.

There's a link below that describes how to use Audacity to rip vinyl. I'm not sure how current it is so it may differ slightly from the latest version of Audacity.


 

RE: Vinyl Ripping Software for PC & Mac, posted on December 8, 2016 at 08:20:41
Inmate51
 Thank you very much!

I'd also like to rip some of my CDs. That was my point before I got side-tracked into my story about ripping vinyl.

Anyway, I'll brush up on Audacity. I've heard about it for years, but never really knew its capabilities. Turns out, my son uses it for recording audio, so I'll pick his brain a little.

Thanks again.

:)

 

Some day I will rip them, but for now..., posted on December 8, 2016 at 09:18:01
Jonesy
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 I still enjoy fighting with the packaging, reading the booklet, and playing them. Much like I did with vinyl.

On another note, I do all my reading on a Kindle. Appreciate hard copy books, but being able to lookup words in the electronic dictionary, search for previous sections and names is great.

Cheers!


"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."




 

For Windows, posted on December 8, 2016 at 09:20:51
E-Stat
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 dbPoweramp is my favorite. Free application EAC works, but is not nearly as convenient nor does it offer other features like bulk transcoding.

 

RE: Kid borrows all of my Rock-n-Roll CDs, posted on December 8, 2016 at 09:28:51
michaelhigh
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 Good to see her interest in rock. I find that handling CD's and to an extent, LP's gets tough, as I rarely sit through an entire title front to back as I used to. More time for discovery that way.

Shuffle has changed my life. My huge beautiful listening chair has a huge dent where my ass goes. I never miss, and spend hour after hour here, rather than all the back and forth. All my shuffling, viewing, surfing and rocking originates from that glorious ass-shaped dent. I have vinyl, CD's and adequate players for both, but I just rip and roll.

Titles from the old and new, convenience from the young, best of both worlds, much of it in flac.

 

RE: Kid borrows all of my Rock-n-Roll CDs, posted on December 8, 2016 at 11:27:30
fantja
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 Laughing...

 

RE: +1 I don't play CDs. I store them., posted on December 8, 2016 at 11:30:47
fantja
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 I concur- painter27-

I will never stop buying the physical discs, I love sifting through my 3000 and counting, disc collection!!!

 

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