CarlSeibert Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 Hmmmm ripping service. When I did it, I just put every computer in the house in the effort and out didn't take too TERRIBLY long. of course that was when every computer actually had an optical drive ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rod Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 As far as I am aware ( In the U.K., not sure about the rest of the world but I think it would be the same )you need to have the physical media , if you sell the c.d. then you no longer have the right to keep the ripped tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kattefjaes Posted February 26 Report Share Posted February 26 (edited) Honestly, ripping is not onerous, especially if you only have 600 or so. Get the software properly set up and working, so it doesn't need messing around with and the whole thing is a mindless exercise. Then you can just do a stack per evening, feeding a new one in when the computer sticks its tongue out. Generally, it's just a case of loading the disk in the drive, letting the software look up the disk and then confirming its conclusions with a click. A few minutes of whooshing and whirring later, it will stick its tongue out again- rinse and repeat. You don't have to do them all at once, but if you crack on and do a healthy stack per evening, you'll soon get through all of it. There will be a few outliers which tragically will no longer play/rip and will need replacing, sod's law will make sure they're the hardest ones to replace, but otherwise, it's fine. Rip them to FLAC, not a lossy format. Then if you need lossy (e.g. for carrying some emergency soothing music on a sanely-sized phone) you can transcode to lossy on demand. Incidentally, external USB optical drives are embarrassingly cheap these days and work well. Edited February 26 by Kattefjaes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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