How best to rip 200 discs to mp3?

Borodog · #1 07-08-2006, 12:10 PM

Here's the situation. I own a Sony 200 disc CD changer. Must be at least ten years old by now. It has a digital audio out, along with component audio, and (perhaps importantly) a jack for something called "S-link" which is a Sony proprietary standard for connecting devices (for example, you could hook up 3 of these things via S-link, and have essentially a giant 600 disc changer).

What I would like to do is connect this thing to a computer, and just set it to play and rip every song to mp3. Does anyone know how this might be accomplished? Preferably easily accomplished?

Thanks.

Dids · #2 07-08-2006, 12:17 PM

This will be way slower than just popping each disk in your burner and doing it that way. I didthis with about the same amount recently- just over the course of about 2 weeks. Not a big issue.

Borodog · #3 07-08-2006, 12:23 PM

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This will be way slower than just popping each disk in your burner and doing it that way. I didthis with about the same amount recently- just over the course of about 2 weeks. Not a big issue.

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Speed is not really the issue. Me having to constantly futz about swapping discs and clicking [censored] is the thing I want to avoid.

dogdrool · #4 07-08-2006, 12:48 PM

I don't know of anything out there that will let you rip all the CDs straight from your 200 disc changer.

Even though speed is not really the issue for you, you should investigate some of the ripping programs because some of them are very user friendly. They pop open the disc tray for you when finished, and start ripping right when the tray closes. So all you have to do is get it set up, then put CDs in and out of the tray as it opens and closes.

Alternatively, there are services where you pay a certain fee per disc and they rip it for you.

Slider · #5 07-08-2006, 12:53 PM

Hire someone.

soko · #6 07-08-2006, 02:14 PM

CDex and swap the CDs 1 at a time.

You will spend the rest of your life finding and renaming all the files if you use your 200 disc changer, CDex downloads the track names and makes them all pretty all you do it switch the cd and push RIP and your done.

Slider · #7 07-08-2006, 02:15 PM

How fast does it take to rip one CD?

Dale · #8 07-08-2006, 02:19 PM

Exact Audio Copy is a good alternative to CDex. One at a time, though.

neuroman · #9 07-08-2006, 02:24 PM

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Exact Audio Copy is a good alternative to CDex. One at a time, though.

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Yep. Put them in a big stack by your computer, every time you remember just pop one in the drive and rip it using Exact Audio Copy.

Remember to set your preference so that the tracks come out properly named, eg "Artist Name - Album - Track#.mp3"

dogdrool · #10 07-08-2006, 02:26 PM

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How fast does it take to rip one CD?

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It depends on your drive, but the ripping can be done up to like 48x or so. So an hour CD takes a little over a minute. Maybe two minutes. Even at 20x you're looking at just 3 minutes per CD.

The encoding to mp3 might take a little longer, but that gets queued up and is done in the background, so that doesn't matter.

Exact audio copy is a good one. The registered version of Music Match Jukebox or whatever is also probably pretty good.

Make sure you get all your parameters just how you want it before you do it. Don't encode it using a [censored] bitrate or anything. Or, better yet, encode it to a lossless format.