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In Reply to: RE: What's the Best CD/DVD player from the past to be used as CD transport? posted by Ki Choi on February 04, 2017 at 11:12:58
Hi Ki,
I recommend ripping all your CDs to your computer hard drive and forget about playing CDs. That's what I did four years ago and I wouldn't go back to playing CDs if you paid me. I ripped mine to WAV files, but there might be better formats for including metadata. I don't care much about metadata, though. I play my CDs directly from a USB hard drive connected to my Oppo BDP-105D and it actually adds the metadata. It apparently knows what I'm playing and it gets the metadata from the internet.
Anyway, forget about CDs and play your music from USB drives. If you get the new Oppo UDP-205, you can connect it to your Burson DAC and play just about everything digital from the Oppo UDP-205 through the Burson DAC.
Best regards,
John Elison
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"I recommend ripping all your CDs to your computer hard drive and forget about playing CDs."
I personally have the opposite opinion..... I think this would be a huge step backwards..... Sorry.......
I've never had satifaction with server-based playback, save for MP3 and YouTube tracks. Not to mention the time wasted ripping CDs to a hard drive, and the countless times the results varied with ripping software, playback software, and even the computer's operating system.
I haven't had any problems whatsoever ripping CDs to my hard drive. I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) and it works perfectly every time. I play all my digital music through my Oppo BDP-105D and it sounds as good or better than any CD player I've owned or heard. You're certainly welcome to your opinion, but I refuse to waste my time playing CDs and it is a big waste of time. To each his own!
Best regards,
John Elison
Having ripped a few CD's, I realised I could better spend my Life hours watching paint dry.
Sure it's easy to sort and select tracks once in Memory... BFD.
Getting there takes so much effort that it seems a pointless affectation.
Not considering inserting a disc and pushing a play button as onerous.
It sounds to me like you rip CDs much differently than I. It might take a little extra effort to rip a CD but for the most part, it's pretty much as simple as playing one. Exact Audio Copy does all the work. It automatically labels all the tracks and checks the data to make sure there are no errors. It even corrects errors when it runs into problems. All I do is load the CD into the tray and push the "rip" button. Ripping takes less than half the time it takes to play a CD. Consequently, it seems easier to me to rip a CD than to play it.
Oh, well. Such is life!
Best regards,
John Elison
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