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I have a couple thousand CD's that I need to rip. It's time, I put it off too long.
What do you guys recommend as the best way to rip, store and access after?
I need help in digital 101.
Thanks but I will likely use JRiver, I will rip to Flac or APE, I already have some HD downloads to transfer. I have a dicted laptop right now that store some on. want to move on from that.I also have a large CD library, much of which I have ripped to my PC using Windows Media Player.
I find that the 320K MP3 files are almost impossible to tell from the original, and take up a lot less hard drive space than some other formats.
I also recommend the Music Collector software to set up a master catalog system for your CDs and LPs etc.
That's very expensive. In the US I see guys getting 3TB external drives for around the $100 mark each. This is the sweet spot. So 12TB could be $400.A random external harddrive can offer up to 6tb for not much money (I believe you can easily get 2x 6tb external drives for under 1000 USD, even with Norwegian prices and VAT).
If you own all the CDs, there's no need. Snapraid will do a parity rebuild for free. Plenty of people here use it with success (or Flexraid) and have no problems with rebuilds after a drive fails. With the HP server, you can have 5 drives, allowing 12TB (if you use 3TB drives) and a 3TB parity drive which can be music, photos, data, whatever.Buy two for redundancy.
Read/write speed is irrelevant for audio as the bandwidth is so low. I can easily write a BR to my server and play back another off the same HDD with no stuttering. I use TeraCopy to spit the files to my server as it does it sequentially and CRC checks the data to make sure it's fine. Free too.If you rip it to the main internal harddrive first, then organize it and move it over in chunks that don't have to be modified, then no fragmentation occurs and the disk speed is nice for whatever amount of time you will use it.
Yes, JRiver, XBMC/Kodi, OpenELEC, Media Browser 3 can all do it free or for modest cost.Whatever program you use to play it can add the entire external harddrive as its music library.
Yikes!Just found this. Looks to be perfect.
Audiophile VortexBox![]()
Please share all the negatives before I move forward. Thanks
I was using Norwegian prices as reference.That's very expensive. In the US I see guys getting 3TB external drives for around the $100 mark each. This is the sweet spot. So 12TB could be $400.
How are you planning on ripping your SACDs?Thanks but I will likely use JRiver, I will rip to Flac or APE, I already have some HD downloads to transfer. I have a dicted laptop right now that store some on. want to move on from that.
I'd like to rip the SACD's DSD of course.
Eljr - you are getting lot of good advice in this thread. I agree with your comments as well. I will summarize my experiences from 4 years of this, having started with a proprietary (though ultimately unreliable) Olive system and having had to re-create and move my library to a 'portable' format.Just found this. Looks to be perfect.
Audiophile VortexBox![]()
Please share all the negatives before I move forward. Thanks
However you suggest.How are you planning on ripping your SACDs?
Maybe other people can, but I can't listen to more than one music album... at the same time, and I have other things to do in life than music listening
Hehe.I am way luckier than you but not always.