Been reading that everybody’s been sucked into the “vinyl is better than compact disc” line of carp and are getting rid of their compact discs. Figured I’d keep an eye out and see if anyone was off-loading their whole collection cheap. First found a guy selling 600+ discs for $250. Then another selling 60 discs for $15. A third was selling his whole country collection for $85. Figured I was done when I found another selling his whole swapmeet lot (over 3000) for a hundred. Once I had sorted, donated the duplicates and titles I wasn’t interested in (latino and christian mostly) to the goodwill, I ended with this. Gonna take quite a while to rip to flac for the server and then converrt those to 320kbs for the car. Would appreciate any advise on software, ect (using foobar2000 to rip to flac, what could I use to rip the whole lot of flac to mp3s?).
howlinowl
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CD Ripper: Rip to multiple formats (FLAC, MP3, etc) in one run.
Audio Converter: Batch convert existing rips to other formats (ex: FLAC to mp3).
Perfect Tunes: find missing cover art, duplicates, etc.
Commercial software. Free, fully functional 21 day trial for ripper & converter (not sure about Perfect Tunes).
Seconded on dbpoweramp. I paid for it and have no regrets. It’s still my go-to when I run across CD’s I’d missed.
It’ll also check your discs to make sure they’re ripped correctly, and notify you if there are errors. Take some time to read about its error-checking system, there are options you can turn on. And have it save the log to the same folder as the FLAC files. That way you can review later if needed.
Let’s say you rip one disc a day, add the metadata, naming, etc. That’s a 2-year job. Damn
like another said, dbpoweramp is the way to go. I rip the whole album right into FLAC and it captures all the proper metadata, copied into the the plex folder. All I do is insert the disc and hit rip. No other work required. Does not get any easier and it is fast. Definitely get the paid version.
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Thanks all for the dbpoweramp recommendation. Pulled the trigger today and downloaded. I love that it will encode flac and mp3 in a single pass, I was dreading the chore of ripping everything twice, now I just dread it half as much.
howlinowl
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Cue tools/cue ripper.
If you rip it to flac first, it is only little effort to afterwards use e.g. a batch script to produce a lossy compressed copy of the flac, while copying all the metatags of the flac file.
This has the advantage that you only need to review and correct metadata once.
Xld you can rip multiple formats at once
