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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."
would anyone actually pay for this? do they type in all the meatadata for you, or just rip it from musicbrainz? i honestly cannot believe that even lazy moneyed fuckwits would pay someone else to do such a simple job. why not pay someone to put your cds into the fricking jiffy postage bags too? tell you what, send me your cds and i'll rip them for you for free (whilst i simultaneously build up a monster media/metadata collection which I will sell at a high price to to to others - http://muze.com/)
Come on! do someone really need to pay to rip cds? There are plenty of tools already availaible that rip fast and that are fully customizable. There are no excuses. Even if you have a big collection. When you want to listen one of your CD, what do you do? Insert it in the drive. Well, just rip 'em once they are inserted. No need to do the whole collection in one shot. And no need to pay. Now go grab cdparanoia and ffmpeg!
Who wants to start a CD ripping service with me?
Skip buying the physical disk, just buy the MP3 from AllOfMP3.com for about $1/CD.