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Multi-drive Ripping / Burning Support?

Posted by pudge on from the ripping-for-dummies dept.

jasonisnuts writes "I currently have a DVD-ROM (internal), a CD-RW (FW), and a DVD-RW (FW), and I also have a massive assortment of music CDs that I want to rip and catalog. Are there any free, shareware, or commercial utilities for Mac OS X that support ripping CDs from multiple devices at the same time and offer full CDDB/GraceNote support? And does this same utility or another offer burning to multiple sources in multiple formats? This will all be done on a Sawtooth 500MHz (upgrading soon)."

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  1. How useful would this be? by Meowing · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I also have a massive assortment of music CDs that I want to rip and catalog.
    When you say "rip", are you also intending to encode these with MP3 or whatever? If so, you're pretty likely to be CPU bound, so ripping from multiple drives isn't going to buy you much. If the idea is just to queue up multiple drives so you can wander away for longer, never mind.