Ripping Madness

[Alex_UK]

I did 2,000 odd CDs 5 years ago, (on dial up, took over 3 months) and have now decided to start again, but I will probably stick with itunes and go WAV - once in WAV it can be converted to pretty much anything, and played on anything

[badlyread]

Well done Steve! I'm still ripping to my Mac Mini (917 CDs so far but the end in sight) and it is boring and time consuming work. The reward is the arrival of a Transporter this week to make it all worthwhile!!

Must get some back up drives......

[steve dixon]

I did 2,000 odd CDs 5 years ago, (on dial up, took over 3 months) and have now decided to start again, but I will probably stick with itunes and go WAV - once in WAV it can be converted to pretty much anything, and played on anything

i strongly suggest you don't use wav, why? well you'd have to tag and assign artwork to each individual file which is the real ballache, afterall slotting in a disc and pulling it out a minute later is easy.

of course it's entirely your choice but i suspect you'll soon get tired of typing every album/artist/song name/adding artwork and find yourself wishing you'd used apple lossless/aiff where itunes will automatically add all the info for you.

good luck
steve

[StanleyB]

i strongly suggest you don't use wav, why? well you'd have to tag and assign artwork to each individual file which is the real ballache, afterall slotting in a disc and pulling it out a minute later is easy.

of course it's entirely your choice but i suspect you'll soon get tired of typing every album/artist/song name/adding artwork and find yourself wishing you'd used apple lossless/aiff where itunes will automatically add all the info for you.

As with most things in life, if you pick the appropriate software the above statement is easily solved. MediaMonkey and TAG&RENAME do not have any of those limitations.

[trailer]

I bought a ReadyNAS Duo a few months ago.

Great bit of kit for backing up data. I'd heard the stories of how loud the fan is but it really isn't at all.

[Edwin66]

i strongly suggest you don't use wav, why? well you'd have to tag and assign artwork to each individual file which is the real ballache, afterall slotting in a disc and pulling it out a minute later is easy.

of course it's entirely your choice but i suspect you'll soon get tired of typing every album/artist/song name/adding artwork and find yourself wishing you'd used apple lossless/aiff where itunes will automatically add all the info for you.

good luck
steve

EAC does the tagging for you when ripping WAV, possibly not the artwork though.

[Stratmangler]

so right now i'm a happy bunny, now i just need a caimen and a sugden a21a or maybe a valve amp.

I'd suggest one of these - I've not heard any of my valve-head friends speak badly of it. There's even a buy built option if you can't handle a soldering iron.


Chris

[DanJennings]

J-River Media Center does the lot, tagging, artwork, and names automatically for every format I can think of... mp3, aac, wav, apple lossless(I think), ogg, flac, aif, wma

[Stratmangler]

EAC does the tagging for you when ripping WAV, possibly not the artwork though.

I use EAC myself, and no, it doesn't find the artwork.

Steve did earlier declare that he uses a Mac, so EAC is not an option, 'cos it's Windoze only.

Chris

[Alex_UK]

you'll soon get tired of typing every album/artist/song name/adding artwork and find yourself wishing you'd used apple lossless/aiff where itunes will automatically add all the info for you.

Indeed I would! But my limited experiments with itunes showed no difference in tagging when ripping to WAV or ALAC? I'm not bothered about the artwork - I only ever use the list view in itunes, and would rather have more space for tracks than the pics. But I do take your point, and others that say don't worry about it! Thing is, I spend all day with computers, so the last thing I want to do is bugger around - I just want itunes to do everything for me - lazy sod me!