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"I've got all my music ripped to FLAC" And that's why I won't do it, because there's no way I can rip all my cds, let alone my vinyls... it takes way too much

• chronogram 7y ago
  No need to do it all at once, just when you’re playing the CD. But I guess your CD player is not attached to the computer?
• dsr_ 7y ago
  I set up a machine in the living room, and ran a script that would rip a disc as soon as it was inserted, then eject it. Whenever I passed through, I would swap discs. If I had some free time, I sat in front of it and read while swapping discs. It took a few months, but it was entirely doable.
• __david__ 7y ago
  I ripped my 1000+ cds in about 1 month. I specifically designed my scripts so that ripping was a separate task from "meta data" inputting. I'd bring a stack of 50ish discs to work and start ripping. The cd tray would open when it was done and I'd put in the next one and close the tray. That's the only interaction, and I could just deal with switching them all day. Then at night when I got home I'd do a meta-data pass, collecting the info from cddb/etc and finalizing everything. I'm not going to say it's not work, but holy cow it's worth it in the end.
• aidenn0 7y ago
  If you're running linux, just riping the CDs is fairly hands-off once it's configured: abcde can be configured to save a flac with an embedded cue-sheet. You can make it totally non-interactive, and a simple "eject -t; abcde; eject" will load the tray, rip the CD and eject the tray. Then just load a CD in every time the tray ejects. I ripped a bit under 300 CDs in a week with the only extra time spent on it being setting everything up.