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Best Method for Automated CD Ripping?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the goes-better-with-a-robot-arm dept.

OzPeter asks: "I have a need to rip about 200-300 CDs in the near future, and I am not looking forward to being a slave to the computer every 4 minutes in order to change the CD in the drive. I have been looking around for automated ripping systems but in general have not been impressed by what I found. This question was asked, 4 years ago, and the best advice to come out of it seemed to be to hire a local teenager to be that slave. Have things improved, or does the advice given in that article still stand? What is currently the best way of automatically ripping a significant number of CDs?"

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  1. Outsource It by xCepheus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you looked at hiring a cd ripping service like MusicShifter? A lot of these places will rip you collection for cheap because they have massive digital libraries of pre-ripped music. Once they receive your cds instead of actually having to rip all 300 of them there is a good chance that 250 or so are already stored in their library resulting in a relatively cheap and fast service ($.79 per cd from Music Shifter).

    (I'm in know way affiliated with any cd ripping services - I've just heard good things about them.)

  2. Re:Software or hardware? by paeanblack · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are some hardware options that aren't totally insane pricewise:

    MF Baxter
    http://www.mfdigital.com/baxter.html

    StarMatix PowerFile
    http://search.ebay.com/powerfile

  3. Re:Well by SydShamino · · Score: 4, Informative

    Trying reading the 278 comments when this was last discussed in December 2005:
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/16/011224 9

    Really, that was a good discussion, and this is basically a dupe of that.

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