How do I automate ripping 1000 CDs into itunes?

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lens@excite.com - 30 Jan 2005 06:34 GMT

I will be getting my wife an iPod soon, so I've started early on the
process of ripping our LARGE CD collection. I realize that I am not
that young anymore, and it will take a long time to insert each CD for
ripping. Is there some juke-box-like machine that I could hook up to
load up and rip 25, 50, or maybe 200 at a time? Like maybe one of those
Sony 200 CD changers with some 3rd-party software?

I actually already have one of these Primera Bravo II batch
burner/printers:
http://www.primera.com/bravoII_disc_publisher.html
It has a robot arm for moving the disks and can handle up to 50 discs,
but It was not made for batch *reading*, only burning. I am hoping
someone has written software hack for this or something else that will
allow multiple CDs to be ripped while unattended. I have a PC, but if
there was a Mac solution, I would spend money to solve this. I have
upwards of 1000 CDs to rip.

I can't be the only one with this problem, but I couldn't find any
references to it on usenet.

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jere7my tho?rpe - 30 Jan 2005 06:56 GMT

> I will be getting my wife an iPod soon, so I've started early on the
> process of ripping our LARGE CD collection. I realize that I am not
> that young anymore, and it will take a long time to insert each CD for
> ripping. Is there some juke-box-like machine that I could hook up to
> load up and rip 25, 50, or maybe 200 at a time?

What you want is an iPod loader. That's not a machine; that's a person
you give your iPod and your CDs to, who then rips them for about a buck
apiece. You could rip your entire collection for about $1000 -- which
might be about what you'd pay for some mechanical solution.

http://www.comp-buyer.co.uk/buyer/news/68638/ipod-loader-services-step-in
to-the-ripping-gap.html

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lens@excite.com - 30 Jan 2005 08:18 GMT

Well I already own the Bravo II, which is a robotic CD burner/printer
that handles 50 blanks at a time, so the hardware part is done. Too bad
I don't know enough to write this myself (I'm not a software person). I
think someone could make a living off this software. I'd pay.

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J - 06 Feb 2005 04:25 GMT

> I will be getting my wife an iPod soon, so I've started early on the
> process of ripping our LARGE CD collection. I realize that I am not
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> I can't be the only one with this problem, but I couldn't find any
> references to it on usenet.

if you know a lot of people, have a ripping party. When I got my wife
a computer, we just all our friends over with their computer. We had
prizes for the person who ripped the most cds. We had beer and movies
and the like. It was a lot of fun, and we ripped about 300 CDs in no
time.

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Mike Rosenberg - 06 Feb 2005 14:48 GMT

> if you know a lot of people, have a ripping party. When I got my wife
> a computer, we just all our friends over with their computer. We had
> prizes for the person who ripped the most cds. We had beer and movies
> and the like. It was a lot of fun, and we ripped about 300 CDs in no
> time.

And a ripping good time was had by all! :-)

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Bev A. Kupf - 06 Feb 2005 14:56 GMT

>> if you know a lot of people, have a ripping party. When I got my wife
>> a computer, we just all our friends over with their computer. We had
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>
> And a ripping good time was had by all! :-)

Are you condoning organized rip-offs? :-)

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Mike Rosenberg - 06 Feb 2005 15:22 GMT

> Are you condoning organized rip-offs? :-)

No, just ripping yarns.

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Bev A. Kupf - 06 Feb 2005 15:43 GMT

> No, just ripping yarns.

Fan of Michael Palin, are you? <http://tinyurl.com/6a5am>
(and if you haven't seen it, it comes recommended - the humour
is quite Pythonesque)

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Mike Rosenberg - 06 Feb 2005 16:17 GMT

> Fan of Michael Palin, are you? <http://tinyurl.com/6a5am>

But of course!

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Dan Stephenson - 06 Feb 2005 18:35 GMT

There is an option in iTunes to auto-rip a CD that you enter. So all
you do is stack your CD near your computer and feed it off and on for a
week or two. That's what I did for my 200 CDs (but for 3 days).

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Chris McDonald - 06 Feb 2005 20:16 GMT

>There is an option in iTunes to auto-rip a CD that you enter. So all
>you do is stack your CD near your computer and feed it off and on for a
>week or two. That's what I did for my 200 CDs (but for 3 days).

[sorry, but I've lost access to the OP's article, and replies]

but http://www.ripdigital.com/ or http://www.loadipod.com/
may be of interest.

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Burt Johnson - 07 Feb 2005 02:02 GMT

> There is an option in iTunes to auto-rip a CD that you enter. So all
> you do is stack your CD near your computer and feed it off and on for a
> week or two. That's what I did for my 200 CDs (but for 3 days).

I did it quite similarly 2 years ago when I got my iPod. I just let
iTunes run ripping in the background while I did other work with my
computer. Took me a few days to rip approx 250 CDs.

I then spent the next 3 months listening to iTunes on my Mac
more-or-less continuously. Whenever I heard a song I didn't care for,
I'd switch to iTunes and delete the song from the library. After a
couple passes through the library, I had eliminated every song that I
didn't care for, and had about 1700 songs -- every one of which i liked.

Over the couple years since then I have done the same for all CDs (and
iTunes store) that I bought. I put them in a "zzNew" group (the 'zz'
puts it at the end of the list) which just has recently purchased music
that has been listened to fewer than 5 times. When I hear a song I want
to skip past, I just delete it from the library. When it graduates from
the 'zzNew' group, it only has songs that I like enough to have listened
to 5 times and liked. :-)

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