CD Conversion project - 1000 CD conversion to SSD looking for external CDdrive

painter24 · 18 Jan 2020 at 20:18

As above really. I'm looking to convert all my CDs to digital storage. I have no idea about the CD drive world, so looking for suggestions on the best solution to get this big job done?

I have a Ryzen 3600x build, 16g 3200 ram which is used primarily for gaming, if this is relevant at all . My CDs will be initially digitilised on to a 1TB NVME drive, the probably transferred to large mechanical drives later down the line

Any help appreciated

Many thanks

Lyndon

Deleted member 77746 · 20 Jan 2020 at 14:49

painter24 said:
I have no idea about the CD drive world, so looking for suggestions on the best solution to get this big job done?

Buy a CD drive, get some ripping software, stick a CD in the drive and RIP it. 1000 CD's is going to take you an awful long time.

If you want to do more at a time just add more cd drives.

tnx · 20 Jan 2020 at 15:17

Ashampoo Software has a FREE burning studio which can rip music CD's. I have used their apps for a long while now. Easy to use. Although I have never used their FREE stuff but I would imagine it would be just as good.

They do a Music Studio 7 too. This will do what you want but there is a charge. Music Studio 6 is good, I have this, again very easy to use.

The_Arbiter · 22 Jan 2020 at 10:18

Heads up, be sure on what format you want. I used dbpoweramp to go flac on 100 odd CDs. I then changed to high bit rate mp3 for the electronic stuff via further ripping. Hah.

That software checks the rip quality from databases and also the tags.

Good luck!

Martynt74 · 22 Jan 2020 at 10:29

The_Arbiter said:
Heads up, be sure on what format you want. I used dbpoweramp to go flac on 100 odd CDs. I then changed to high bit rate mp3 for the electronic stuff via further ripping. Hah.

That software checks the rip quality from databases and also the tags.

Good luck!

DPpoweramp has a converter function which will allow you to convert FLAC to other formats so no need to re-rip.

Definitely rip to FLAC.

As mentioned, it's going to take a LONG time. I had to do a similar amount. I just kept a stack next to the laptop and popped a new cd in every time i walked past and saw it'd ejected the previous. From memory it's ~10 mins per cd.

If you have old components/old laptop doing nothing. Take a look at the Vortexbox software (free)

The_Arbiter · 22 Jan 2020 at 18:58

Marvt74 said:
DPpoweramp has a converter function which will allow you to convert FLAC to other formats so no need to re-rip.

Definitely rip to FLAC.

As mentioned, it's going to take a LONG time. I had to do a similar amount. I just kept a stack next to the laptop and popped a new cd in every time i walked past and saw it'd ejected the previous. From memory it's ~10 mins per cd.

If you have old components/old laptop doing nothing. Take a look at the Vortexbox software (free)

Yeah, have tried it. But found it wasn't the highest of quality when using mp3 VBR. The direct mp3 rips are decent however.

mushtafa · 10 Feb 2020 at 20:45

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

I used EAC when I did mine. Also does all the ID3 tagging automatically