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In Reply to: RE: Moving all CDs to network drive..advice? posted by DWPC on May 05, 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.
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Your method for ripping CDs sounds OK if you have a handful of discs, but would be most unsatisfactory for a large collection.
Does it allow metadata and cover artwork to be available on the SSD?
Far better is to use a ripping NAS such as RipNAS. It has all the software you need built in including dBpoweramp and will get all track info and artwork from the internet as you rip - and it will verify that your rip is bit-perfect.
Each CD takes a few minutes and it files most CDs into appropriate folders without help. If you want to move to a more useful folder or want to rename one, just use Windows or Mac to do this with Cut and Paste or Rename.
Couldn't be easier!
99% of the time all metadata transfers as well, including artwork.
There should be no reason to verify the rip for bit-perfect copy. I'd be more concerned if I used 3rd party software. But I'm just using a straight copy (source to destination).
The only way I can see really streamlining the process would be if I had a carousel CD tray where I could load up 10 or 20 or 100 CD's at a time and walk away for a few hours, otherwise, my efficiency is still limited to ripping 1 CD at a time.
To streamline my manual process a bit, I'll have 3 windows to the SSD ext. drive opened ready with new folder names (new music titles) opened and ready to receive the rip. Then I have my neatly and gently stacked CD's ready to insert as soon as the current rip is complete.
> I think you might be hard pressed to find better value for the 105D's price of $1300.
I agree! My Oppo BDP-105D is the heart of my audio/video entertainment system. For the price, there is nothing that compares. It is just so versatile! It plays nearly everything digital and it accepts USB hard drives and flash drives directly. It does everything except play vinyl, so keep your turntable. ;-)
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"My Oppo BDP-105D is the heart of my audio/video entertainment system."
I just don't see how that's possible so long as you got that Pass Labs X-1 taking the place of the OPPO's extremely musical passive volume attenuator. :)
Below is my config with just the right number of components (2) and not a single component more.
Could you turn the lights on so we can see what you have?
Thanks
You sound like my wife.
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