CD Ripping Services Compared

RX8 writes "Designtechnica compares a number of CD ripping services and talks about the differences in services, price and which formats they will rip your music to. The guide compares 6 different services, all of which are somewhat different in what they do. Ripping services are gaining in popularity because they make it so easy to convert (a.k.a. rip) your entire collection into MP3 files for your portable media device."

Comments

The real question is....

[Chris Bradshaw]

Will it grab the rootkit too?

Whoops, they forgot one...

[dada21]

http://www.riaa.org/freerip4u/

1. $0.00 / CD, No shipping needed
2. ???
3. Profit!!!

Anyone wonder how many Sony Rootkits (tm) these guys got?

News for tomorrow...

[SeanMon]

All the companies reviewed in this article have inexplicably been shutdown by an virus, called RIAA.pwn, which uses the Sony-created rootkit.

Re:CD ripping? it's the LPs I want ripped!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ditto. 300 of them. And I want them lossless, with cover art, handled carefully, cleaned, insured on the trip out and back, and the clicks and pops and surface noise cleaned up. And to be blown regularly while I wait.

Re:Jesus H. Christ

[iamlucky13]

Seriously. This is Slashdot for crying out loud. How many of you people take your computer in to CompUSA because you "lead a busy life?" It would take just as long to organize your collection, fill out the necessary forms and ship it anyways.

1. Download DBpoweramp: 3 minutes on DSL
2. Put CD in drive and start ripping: 2 minutes
3. Walk away and cook dinner/weed the garden/go to work: ???
4. Return and change CD's: 2 minutes

Staying true to your nerd roots: timeless

There are somethings money can't buy, but for an extra fee, you can upgrade to premium.

Re:seriously

[Anonymous Coward]

Yum, meatadata. :-)

true for other things too?

[commodoresloat]

Hmmm... why pay a hooker for a handjob when you can just jerk off for free?

Re:true for other things too?

[Comatose51]

Someone mod him up, +5 insightful! He just saved me a bundle of cash!

Re:true for other things too?

[brogdon]

I think the paradigm here is that you'd mail your member off to the service, they'd jerk it for you at their location (within 7-10 business days) and then mail it back to you.

Of course eventually all these businesses will be outsourced to India, and genital jetlag is not something to be taken lightly.

Re:Jesus H. Christ

[zerocool^]

• like me, they have grammer than the average slashdotter.
  

ruin your CD drive? You're an idiot.

[SuperBanana]

For one thing, ripping an entire CD collection in a row is a great way to ruin your CD drive. Those things have moving parts and they heat up real fast, especially in laptops. I even ruined my desktop's CD drive this way.

This is the stupidest thing I've read on slashdot in a long, long time. Your CD drive "burnt" out because you used it too much? Why have I never heard of anyone else having this problem? Ever? Why has it that in 8 years of IT work, I've never had a user break their CD drive, period?

For another thing, the ripping company only has to rip one copy of each CD and then they store it on a server.

Okay. So why do you have to pay so much for them to go "oh, yup, he's got that CD"? And if they're not actually converting YOUR cd, sounds like false advertising to me.

Re:Jesus H. Christ

[karnal]

My wife and I have about 1200 CDs and about $500.00 in iTunes between us. (Now that we're cohabitating, I'm anxious for the next version of jhymn, so I can strip her DRM

You're married now. Your wife will be stripping YOUR DRM soon enough. It's like sucking out your will to live!!

Re:As a record store owner

[Anonymous Coward]

And that is why this troll will live on forever. It never fails to bait someone.

Re:Why pay for what you already have?

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

"Better yet (and less of a legal gray area), pay your 8-year old nephew $0.25 per disc to rip your music for you."

Because we all know slashdotters don't get laid enough to have kids.

Maybe my family tree is wrong - but I don't see where I need to have kids to have a nephew?

Re:Why pay for what you already have?

[KermitJunior]

What's the point of having a quiet MP3 collection?