Anyone use RipDigital?

[viator122]

Has anyone used these guys?

www.ripdigital.com

You send them your CDs and they will rip and tag them for you in a variety of different formats. Then they send you your CDs back, along with data DVDs containing your ripped files. One thing, however, that concerns me is that they claim to put a watermark on your files. Another downside is that you don't know how good a job they'll do tagging your music, which could be a problem especially for classical fans. Nevertheless, I thought I'd pass the link on.

 

[crypt@]

Interesting, paying someone to do excactly what one can do with free software and a little time. It can be useful if ripping equipments (s/w, h/w) are unavailable...

 

[blessingx]

There's quite a few of these. See this also. I've seen a few others too. Seems to be a market for it.

 

[viator122]

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Originally Posted by crypt@ Interesting, paying someone to do excactly what one can do with free software and a little time. It can be useful if ripping equipments (s/w, h/w) are unavailable...

There are a lot of things you can do cheaper with a little time. I can wash, starch, and iron my dress shirts instead of taking them to the laundry. I can build my own computer, etc. The point is it takes a long time to properly rip and tag a large CD library. I can do about 3 - 4 per night before I get bored. So if I had a 1000 CD collection, it would take me 250 days to rip it all, if I worked on it every day. That's 2/3 of a year! These services end up costing about $1 per CD. Yeah, $1,000 is a lot of money, but if you can afford it and you are short of time, why not?

 

[crypt@]

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Originally Posted by viator122 There are a lot of things you can do cheaper with a little time. I can wash, starch, and iron my dress shirts instead of taking them to the laundry. I can build my own computer, etc. The point is it takes a long time to properly rip and tag a large CD library. I can do about 3 - 4 per night before I get bored. So if I had a 1000 CD collection, it would take me 250 days to rip it all, if I worked on it every day. That's 2/3 of a year! These services end up costing about $1 per CD. Yeah, $1,000 is a lot of money, but if you can afford it and you are short of time, why not?

Agree, which is why I wrote "ripping equipments (s/w, h/w) are unavailable...". Maybe I should have tagged time on the end as well.

And further supporting your argument is:
- though media is cheap, at 5 ~ 10c a piece, 1000* CDs comes to $50 ~100. And with guarantee they are all good in between too.

At the end it is your decision whether a service is worth the $ or not. Which is why some of us have purchased washing machine, dryer, iron, iron board and paying the water and electricity bill

P.S. And it is those little elbow grease which helped afford the H140 and ER4...

 

[viator122]

Yeah with a service like this only a small number of people will fall in the *sweet spot* and able to get good value out of this. For example, if you have 100 CDs, it is certainly not worth $100 to have them ripped, you can do it yourself in a weekend. Also, if you have 1000 CDs, it's going to cost you $950 to use the service and that's a ton of money. I guess someone who has about 250 - 600 or so CDs is the target market here.

I also wonder about this watermark, and how well they tag the files, and what type of ripping software they use. It would suck to pay $500 to have your CDs ripped and they come back with pops and clicks and they're tagged improperly.

 

[waylman]

A true audiophile would never hand his CD collection over to someone else to rip it.

 

[viator122]

Some people (looks in direction of Dedicated Source Components subforum) would say a true audiophile would not rip music to begin with.