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RE: Moving all CDs to network drive..advice?

Posted by stehno (M) on May 5, 2015 at 23:32:48

In Reply to: Moving all CDs to network drive..advice? posted by DWPC on May 5, 2015 at 09:37:03:

A year ago I dumped my Esoteric UX-3SE for an OPPO BDP-105D universal CDP.

i didn't know it at the time, but among other excellent sonic benefits, I was also purchasing a music server. Which at the time I had no interest.

Eventually I started ripping music to a thumb drive and then an SSD. Then plug the device into the OPPO via USB.

Below are my current steps to rip a CD onto my macbook pro that has iTunes installed.

1. Connect my external SSD drive via USB to the mac.
2. Open a window onto the SSD to show SSD contents, create new folders, sub-folders etc by music type.
3. Create folder named CD about to be ripped.
4. Insert my CD to be ripped.
5. iTunes will prompt asking if I want to import this CD and I respond "No".
6. Open CD folder.
7. Select all,
8. Drag all songs to desired folder. on SSD
9. Several minutes later copy is done and I eject CD.

Repeat steps 2 - 9 to rip next CD

After a good number of CD's have been ripped I will back up the SSD to another HDD via USB for good measure.

Redbook and DSD formats copy over as AIFF which sonically works well. FLAC and other high-rez formatted files copy over as-is.

Time consuming but it's a shorter process than how I used to do it.

With my iPad mini and the OPPO app and the 105D, my iPad makes for simple yet elegant user interface for right now about 200 GB worth of music on my SSD.

Surely there has to be other mfg'ers with other not too dissimilar benefits. If per chance you're looking for wonderful sonic benefits and a music server, I think you might be hard pressed to find better value for the 105D's price of $1300.

Edits: 05/05/15 05/05/15

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