The best CD ripper 2019: back up your whole music library

[joeinid]

https://www.techradar.com/best/cd-ripper

[Projectman]

@joeinid - bad link

[audio.bill]

Found this with a quick search of the site which looks like the intended link: https://www.techradar.com/best/cd-ripper

[joeinid]

@joeinid - bad link

Sorry about that. I tried to post it from my iPhone, not sure why it didn't work. Fixed.

Found this with a quick search of the site which looks like the intended link: https://www.techradar.com/best/cd-ripper

Ah! Thank you.

[Kingrex]

I have DB Poweramp. I also bought the Nimbi Robot. You want both. I load about 30 cd at a time. Come back in an hour or so, recase, reload and off again.

You may also want a polisher. I rip on Burst and some CD will get rejected. Try a polish and reinsert.

Helpfull tip, keep all the cases and disc in order. Makes is much easier to reload the cases.

[nicoff]

I have DB Poweramp. I also bought the Nimbi Robot. You want both. I load about 30 cd at a time. Come back in an hour or so, recase, reload and off again.

You may also want a polisher. I rip on Burst and some CD will get rejected. Try a polish and reinsert.

Helpfull tip, keep all the cases and disc in order. Makes is much easier to reload the cases.

In my experience This system would not work very well with classical CDs. That’s because the metadata for classical music CDs are all over the place.

[Kingrex]

It pretty much always find the title of the album. Does not always have the track. In that case you go back later and you feed in the information that's missing. I have 1900 albums I ripped. As individual rips, that would be weeks upon weeks of sitting in front of a computer watching each disc spin for about 2 plus minutes each while it loads into the NAS. I don't have that kind of time. Others may.

[nicoff]

It pretty much always find the title of the album. Does not always have the track.
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In that case you go back later and you feed in the information that's missing.

Yep, that's exactly my point. It gets even worse when you have multi-disc CDs and each CD could end up with a different album name and tracks are shown in different languages!
In any event, that is where a tagging software comes to the rescue. I use MP3TAG and it is great to fix album metadata issues. But unfortunately, there is no free lunch: it takes time to do it right.

[Kingrex]

Whats your solution.

[nicoff]

Whats your solution.

If you still want to use the batch method with your setup, I would rip 30 CDs at a time and save them to a temporary folder. Then I would use metadata software (like MP3TAG) and fix the metadata of those 30 CDs. Once this is done, I would move the albums to your desired destination. Then I do another batch of 30 CDs and repeat the process.

This problem is primarily with classical music. Pop music including rock, etc is typically not a problem. So you could separate the classical CDs from the rest, and do the fixing to that group of CDs.

One more suggestion is to determine ahead of time what information you want for your classical CDs and then be consistent. For example, you will likely want a field for the composer. If so, then you should choose how to list the composers names for consistency. For example: Beethoven OR Ludwig van Beethoven etc.