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Thank you for posting this! I still have hundreds of CDs that I'd like to rip, but I don't have any device to connect my ancient Plextor SCSI CD drive to. I did

Thank you for posting this! I still have hundreds of CDs that I'd like to rip, but I don't have any device to connect my ancient Plextor SCSI CD drive to. I didn't want to buy just any CD drive because I want to rip these CDs as accurately as possible. One of the top contestants (HP GUE1N) is available for cheap on eBay, so I went and bought one. So I guess I'll do a lot of disc changing during the long winter evenings to come, but then I'll finally be able to throw out all these CDs.

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
I set up a system with two SCSI drives and one USB to mass rip a few hundred discs. Modern Linux can't handle media changes over SCSI without interfering with an existing transfer so I had to synchronize disc swaps on those two drives. I wouldn't attempt it with only one drive.
TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I didn't want to buy just any CD drive because I want to rip these CDs as accurately as possible. Ripping software like EAC or whipper do verify, using an online DB of rips, that your rip is 100% bitperfect. So ripping "as accurately as possible" ain't a concern: your rip is either 100% correct, bit for bit, or it's not and you should start over. If you're on Windows use EAC while if you're on Linux, use whipper. I use whipper and it's nowadays stock on many Linux distros (Fedora, Debian, etc.). > but then I'll finally be able to throw out all these CDs. Well I think that legally you need to keep the CDs if you want to keep your rips (it may depend on the country but in Europe you're allowed to rip CDs you physically own).