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I grapped one of these off the bay.
about $200
Maybe now I will finally get my 750+ CDs ripped
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verdict: mehhh.pros:
1:frees up a pc for ripping. that's about it.
2:for ripping, can be powered by any 5 v USB supply if you have the right DC plug connector.cons:
1:only can use freedb for metadata
2:no EAC type support for accurate rip
3:need to select at least 3 menu items for every rip
4:only comes with EU power plug
5:$200
6:really only works well with memory stick. decent size external drive takes forever to be recognized.
7:only supports 32gb fat32 formatted drive for ripped output.
Edits: 06/16/16
I used Exact Audio Copy (EAC) freeware. It took me about two months to rip 750 CDs. EAC entered all pertinent CD information automatically, which was very convenient.
Good luck,
John Elison
hmm, two months might work for me, if I didn't have a job and a family to support :)
It's going to take some manual effort and time to rip your CD collection whether you use a PC/Mac, or that dedicated CD ripper you linked to.
As others have mentioned you don't have to do it all in a single marathon session. And you don't have to sit there doing nothing while you wait for each CD to rip. I sorted through a couple dozen of my favorite CDs then started ripping them while doing other things in my office. Once I had a handful of my favorites ripped, I played around with them making sure the metadata looked good, played some tunes to reward myself, then stopped. I picked up where I left off when I was in the mood again and had time on my hands.
There's no getting around it unless you have someone else do it for you.
Although that dedicated ripper appears to pull metadata off the internet (make sure it's connected to your network/ISP before ripping!!), you will likely need to fix some of it manually along the way. And it's not clear to me whether that dedicated ripper will pull down album art.
The other issue I foresee with the dedicated ripper are the additional steps required in ripping the CD to a USB memory stick or SD card, then transferring the ripped files from the USB stick/SD card to your PC/Mac. If you rip on a PC/Mac in the first place, you don't have these additional steps. The files are automatically ripped directly into your PC/Mac music library.
Good luck.
I don't understand the connection between having a family to support and the time it takes to rip a bunch of CDs???? The two are independent variables as far as I can tell. Unless, of course, you can get your family to rip the CDs! ;-)
Good luck,
John Elison
my journey was similar. I committed to a couple of hours per day in the process while doing other things at the time. Once you get in the groove, things can work pretty smoothly.
Having said that, one of the potentially most time consuming tasks is verifying and correcting tag information. Having a standalone ripper doesn't help that situation at all. I used EAC for a while, but found that dbPoweramp streamlines the process even further.
...or a $20 USB CD drive attached to a laptop or PC? I'm not seeing why one would need a $200 dedicated ripper to do what any laptop/PC/Mac can do.If one were concerned with wearing out the internal CD drive in his PC/Laptop, a cheap external USB CD drive could be used as mentioned above.
I'm not understanding the benefit of the ripper.
Edits: 06/11/16
I would just like a standalone disc drive with it's own power supply. I had the built-in drive fail and then unknowingly bought the same external usb drive. It malfunctioned after not much use. Those were Samsung, so I bought a Lenovo and last time I used it, it put glitches in the last 5 minutes of 70+ minute CDs.
I'd just like a less flimsy drive, for under $75.
you plan to do the tagging manually? That would be a major PIA for me!
No, I would still be ripping to laptop using JRiver.
I just want a better, more durable disc drive.
we have a different understanding of the meaning "standalone". The model pictured in the OP's link outputs to USB or SD cards. Here's what I find in the details:
" Digitally encode audio CDs into FLAC without a computer...The Mini X-9 formats inserted medias such as USB and SD card storages."
We probably don't, but I wasn't apparently vefy clear. I'm talking about an external version of the built in drive in my laptop.
Nothing self contained like the OP posted.
External, not standalone.
within a laptop.
I know I would not use one.
...during the process of copying a digital file off a CD onto a computer drive, no computer program could ever be installed. The only time you get a bad rip is when the CD is defective or damaged, or the CD drive isn't working correctly. Neither of those situations are due to noise.
Computer noise only becomes an issue when the digital file is being decoded by the DAC for playback of the music. At that point the argument for a standalone player instead of a multipurpose PC makes sense.
"...during the process of copying a digital file off a CD onto a computer drive, no computer program could ever be installed. The only time you get a bad rip is when the CD is defective or damaged, or the CD drive isn't working correctly. Neither of those situations are due to noise."
This is technically incorrect. Computer files have three levels of Reed Solomon error correction on them when burned to a CD-R. Audio files, such as you rip, have only two layers of RS error correction and are much less reliable. It is quite common for there to be the occasional error on a rip, and multiple errors if the disk is damaged in some way. Usually, good ripping software, such as DBPoweramp, correct these errors, but sometimes (a few percent of disks) this proves impossible.
If I were to rip more than a few dozen CDs, I would not use a laptop CD drive, because these are expensive to replace. I would use an internal drive with a tower machine or an external USB drive. (If you are not comfortable working with the internals of a PC, then go with an external drive.) On my Acer tower, swapping the CD drive took less then 10 minutes and required no tools. I had to do this, because the old drive failed after doing many rips.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I fully understand the error correction scheme for data CDs is slightly more robust than for audio CDs, but this has nothing to do with the original point. That is: the internal electronic noise generated by a desktop or laptop has nothing to do with the accuracy of a rip compared to using a dedicated stand-alone ripper.
Likewise, whether or not one elects to use a stand-alone to avoid wear to your PC/laptop drive is a separate issue. It has nothing to do with the accuracy of CD rips.
The combo BluRay drive in my PC using dbPoweramp does a fine job and passes the CRC tests perfectly.
I run standalone players via distantly located music server to minimize noise during playback.
I guess I've learned to come to terms with all this cacophony over the years. Yes. . . it's broken me down so that I'm not even half the man I used to be. Nevertheless, I still applaud the inspiring struggle of the brave listeners who refuse to submit to the laptop's noisy din! ;-)
I've never had a problem with 'noise' or inaccurate rips with the CD drive in my Lenovo PC, CD/DVD in my MacBook Pro laptop, the external Apple USB CD/DVD drive, or my Samsung or LG external USB CD/DVD drives.
But if some folks feel better about using an outboard dedicated ripper I guess that's their business whether there's any technical justification or not.
Not an issue but regardless, you will achieve bit perfect rips using a laptop/PC along with a good ripper like dBpoweramp combined with AccurateRip.
To each his own but your "cacaphony of noise" argument doesn't hold water. You can use an external USB CD drive if you imagine that the internal drive is inadequate.
What dedicated ripper do you use?
Went to the link and it says they will not ship to the US.
ordered from the bay
I like the idea of minimizing computer noise while ripping but wish this would utilize .wav, also.
I would be interested in your assessment of whether it sounds better.
I like the idea of being able to place the files on an SD card. The best music storage medium in my unhumble opinion ...
That dedicated ripper IS a computer under the hood and as I mentioned, one can achieve perfect rips with a PC/laptop combined with something like dBpoweramp and AccurateRip.... and they support your need for WAV.
You can place your files on an SD card from a computer but I would not place must trust in SD cards for long term reliability. Make a shoe box full of SD card backups! ;-)
The only advantage I can see for a dedicated ripper is not tying up one's only computer while ripping. But many of us own more than one computer. To each his own.
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