How many CDs have you ripped so far?

[iriverdude]

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One copy gets a digital HDCD decode to 24-bit and the other stays at 16-bit.

Interesting. So I should do the same? (I have a HDCD DAC)

 

[Ham Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by iriverdude /img/forum/go_quote.gif Interesting. So I should do the same? (I have a HDCD DAC)

Not necessary if you have a HDCD capable DAC and you are ripping to lossless, doing bitperfect playback, and the DAC is able to detect the HDCD encoded files.

I don't have a HDCD DAC so I make do by doing a digital HDCD decode using dBpoweramp. The digital HDCD decode gets back the dynamics and peak extension but ignores the additional digital filters and other fancy stuff that a true HDCD DAC will do. The digital HDCD decode only gives you part of the HDCD experience.

 

[wilyodysseus]

I have 164 albums ripped, which is the bulk of my non-vinyl music collection. A couple of years ago, I got rid of close to 200 CD's I no longer had any desire to own. I'm pretty conservative about buying new music these days, adding at most 1-2 albums a week.

I've also taken to sorting my music library in reverse Last Played order lately, which has led to re-discovering some albums and deleting a handful.

 

[ServinginEcuador]

178. Not a lot, but it takes a long time to get through it all when listening even a few hours a day.

 

[Billyk]

3500+ and still going. dBpoweramp is the tool I use after trying many. On a decent machine it only takes 2-3 minutes to securely rip a CD. I say this because quite a few folks mentioned time. Spoon's accurip is really great for fast rips while ensuring it ripped right.

 

[iriverdude]

If you're doing that many, I'd probably buy another optical drive for your computer- so you have two instances of eac reading in discs, and if you have several computers, get each computer to read in your discs.

 

[Billyk]

I am fortunate that I get to do this at work. I have six computers some with multiple drives. On a day where all I had to do was babysit a lengthy video project and nothing else; I was able to rip over 150 cds. I know I am gonna be labeled a dBpoweramp zealot, it is so quick fo ripping cds that don't have any issues, but it is the secure rip function that really works well when I need it. Sometimes disks come across my desk that this is the only way to salvage some thing usable from them. When I need to get something for forensic or evidential reasons, I can't mess around.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by Jaska /img/forum/go_quote.gif You've got to respect that. I just did away with exactly 313 albums in my digital music library. I've kept the lossless rips on my HD, but I don't see any point in extending the library of music that I actually listen to very much anymore. When people talk about ripping thousands of CDs, I wonder if they've ever done the math to figure out if they'll ever actually be able to listen to all of it in their lifetime.

Yeah! I only tend to keep rip those CDs that I actually expect to listen to.
The rest I have easily available on CD.

 

[geremy]

Wow. I have about 150 albums ripped to FLAC via EAC, and I just cannot imagine greater than 500. You guys up over 1000 are my heroes.

 

[ph0rk]

Many hundreds.

Back when we had the 20-machine MOSIX cluster for encoding at work (outdated hardware, and once we built the cluster we had to find something for it to do), we were encoding so fast we needed 3 drives to rip fast enough at ~40x. (plextor SCSI drives).

Even then, we had to let the machine with the drives cool down after about 4-5 hours, the drives got so hot they started throwing too many errors and slowed down.

 

[Billyk]

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Quote: Originally Posted by Jaska You've got to respect that. I just did away with exactly 313 albums in my digital music library. I've kept the lossless rips on my HD, but I don't see any point in extending the library of music that I actually listen to very much anymore. When people talk about ripping thousands of CDs, I wonder if they've ever done the math to figure out if they'll ever actually be able to listen to all of it in their lifetime. Yeah! I only tend to keep rip those CDs that I actually expect to listen to. The rest I have easily available on CD.

I have evolved a different philosophy regarding my collection. I have / had an extensive collection of live music, mostly compressed shorten files, about 2,000 disks. They started to deteriorate on me! Cheap media I guess, bad storage too. I started re-encoding to flac and putting them on a hard disk. That got me to ripping my CD collection, all of it. I was amazed at the amount of room I got back on my shelves. So I have a TB or three of music, but it is on disk for easy access, disks are cheap and safer than the CD/DVD I was using because they are backed up to tape and in a RAID array.
I know that I have more than I can listen to in the rest of my lifetime, but it is not about that. I enjoy my collection immensely, enjoy looking through it and deciding what to play or even better playing it on random-shuffle mode. It is also pretty cool that what used to take a wall now fits in just a few cubic feet.

 

[Mr.Duck]

Anyone else using TAK instead of FLAC? TAK is lossles compression and will reduce the size by a few 100 MBs for most of you I reckon.

 

[Billyk]

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Originally Posted by Mr.Duck /img/forum/go_quote.gif Anyone else using TAK instead of FLAC? TAK is lossles compression and will reduce the size by a few 100 MBs for most of you I reckon.

Looks interesting... The lack of support in my portables, all Rock Box based, and in my tools, dBpoweramp, pretty much excludes it at the moment.

 

[iriverdude]

TAK? First I've heard of it.

 

[Mr.Duck]

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Originally Posted by iriverdude /img/forum/go_quote.gif TAK? First I've heard of it.

TAK is great. TAK is lossless and on it's fastest encode setting, is much faster AND still produces a smaller file size than FLAC on it's highest compression setting. I use Foobar2000 so no problems playing them when it's all set up. The only possible downside I can see for me is that it's not open source. But neither is foobar2000 and no one complains.