Right I finally decided to sort out all my cds and get them stored on my home server to stream music around the house. Looking at the stack of music that needs ripping its going to take me fecking ages to do. I want all the data there too such as album cover and track names. I know a bit about Freedb.org to get the info but its the task of ripping that going to be the ball ache. I came accross this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170218634429#ebayphotohosting the ripserver, wondered if anyone had used one or if anyone has any ideas to help me with this huge task?
It's a shame no-one has developed an open-source product for this task that's as good as iTunes for the job. There's no point buying a pre-built media server just to do ripping. What you need is an encoder that covers not only the common CD databases (freedb, musicbrainz, CDDB), but also can pull pictures from Amazon (as it's the best source for images). I've seen many programs that can do separate jobs but very few Linux-based ones that do all of that in a good interface.
Since I dont have a Windoz or Mac computers I-tunes isnt an option. Plus I hate Itunes when I did have windoz machine.
I'm ripping a few CDs now as I type this. I use GoldWave. It will convert the CDs to any format under the sun plus do all the ID tags etc. You don't even need to input the song titles since they are automatically downloaded from the net. It doesn't do covers though so that's a down point. Yakumo
I use DBPowerAmp with various audio plugins and it does id3 tags as well as album art although I'm not sure if it does work with multiple cd drives. i'm sure any program you get could just be loaded up twice unless your planning on using your pc at the same time
I'm pretty sure that DBPowerAmp doesn't work with two drives at the same time, but you should not have any trouble loading it up twice like 3do said, at least for me it worked perfectly. If you want to get some decent cd covers and you have Linux available, Amarok is great for that, it takes the pics from Amazon and the quality is way better than the standard 150x150 pics downloaded boy most of the programs. There must be a Windows app that does the same, but honestly I never searched for it
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-CDPCX455-Disc-MegaStorage-Changer/dp/B000069JWX There are many CD rippers... http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/cat/CD_RIPPERS/ Many moons ago, I used AudioCatalyst. No idea if it is still going or if there is something better out there. The alternative, and possibly quicker might be *ahem* download the albums you own?
While this is "illegal," this is probably the easiest solution. I can literally download an album faster than it would take for me to go through my few hundred CDs to find the one that I'm looking for. This is not taking into account having to rip the CD after I find it.
It's only illegal if you didn't buy the original discs, but if you have them maybe it can be the easiest way to get them. Anyway the distribution IS illegal and nobody knows you really own the discs there, so don't expect to have them really easily with the covers and all that stuff. In my case I'm a bit maniac for audio quality (always I can I rip the audio CDs by myself to be sure it'll sound good), but for most of the people 128 kbps quality is more than enough, thought. By the way, there're lots of CD cover sites around the web, I have no idea about if their distribution is legal (I never needed a CD cover yet ) but you can give it a search ;-)
I had to do this when I built this computer back in 2006...it was not fun ripping hundreds of CD's. What I do, is use EAC+LAME, which makes the best MP3's I think. It's not super fast, but the reason you own the CD is for the quality, so it pays off, then I scan album covers 600x600 and stick it in the album folder. It's not fast, but it is thourough. A lot of stuff I listen to I can't find high res album covers on the net easily, so scanning works and gives me something I can give to others.
Software: Exact Audio Copy MP3 Encoder: LAME 3.97 Command Line: -V 0 --vbr-new Set up properly, the ripping and encoding process should be fairly automatic. The encoder and command line offers both reasonable quality sound and file sizes.
Alas, this is a myth Technically (and this is common copyright law, not any sort of crazy gunk NIN use like CC), you are allowed to take a copy of a disc for your own personal use (though, as everyone knows, the RIAA are trying to remove the US that privilege), but not allowed to take a copy of someone else's copy. This is because of some legalese which states that whilst you own a disc, you do not have legal ownership of it's contents, and so anyone else's copy is outside your legal rights. Complicated, huh? The law regarding artwork is the same as with photocopying rights - personal use only, done by yourself, not disseminated. Cover sites are technically illegal, but record companies are commonly more interested in the music.
I use CDex, which is probably one of the best free (and open source) CD rippers, and it works. And it is a great CD ripper. That can rip CDs into many formats. And it has freedb support. I believe CDex does support multiple drives.
