[Guy 13]

Hi all,
For the past two years, while working on my computer
or doing something else that doesn’t required lots of concentration,
I listen to ambiance music from my Grace Mondo table top Internet radio.
The station is called : Radio Art - Stress relief radio (96Mbps MP3)
feeding a 15 years old Sony receiver with bookshelves speakers and mini subwoofer.
The set up is near field, very near field, like 24’’ from my ears.
Right now I did not subscribe to Radio Art, so there are some advertising,
but very little and not really annoying.
As soon as I have a few $$$ I will subscribe, because it’s really inexpensive (6$/month)
without advertising and 24/7 none stop music.
They play different types of music (No vocal and that’s O.K. with me)
and what they play is 95% the type of music I like and the remaining 5%
is music that I don’t dislike.
Sometimes I wonder why I would spin vinyl or play CDs when I have music I like 24/7.
Plus, no wear out of the hard disk on my laptop.
However, I still have in mind of converting my vinyl to digital into my laptop,
for that I will buy the Behringer UAC202 at 30 USD.
For my CDs I was wondering what would be better,
use the Behringer with my Rega Apollo or put the CD directly in the CD’s laptop tray ?
When I have purchased and received the Behringer
I will ask members how to download the free J. River software or equivalent…
Waiting for advices, options, suggestions and recommendations.
Thanks in advance.
 
Guy 13

[JLM]

Using your laptop to rip CD's is the preferred method.  It provides a more direct connection to the HD and computers, being more powerful (faster, more memory) than a CDP, will do more re-sampling of the disc to get the best possible copy.

[Guy 13]

Using your laptop to rip CD's is the preferred method.  It provides a more direct connection to the HD and computers, being more powerful (faster, more memory) than a CDP, will do more re-sampling of the disc to get the best possible copy.

Thanks JLM.
Your comment is highly appreciated.

Guy 13

[Hank]

Guy13, I've done some ripping, regular and hi-res, with Easy Audio Copy.  Very easy to use.  Check it out.

[charmerci]

I love the free Foobar for playback. (They playback FLAC files but not some other types.)

[djEmpire]

Using your laptop to rip CD's is the preferred method.  It provides a more direct connection to the HD and computers, being more powerful (faster, more memory) than a CDP, will do more re-sampling of the disc to get the best possible copy.

Am I understanding this correctly? Why would a laptop be more suitable to rip CD's/Vinyl than a desktop? For instance my desktop, built by me, i7 cpu, 32Gb RAM, and several hot swap-able capacity HD's making it much easier to add/remove storage.

[charmerci]

Am I understanding this correctly? Why would a laptop be more suitable to rip CD's/Vinyl than a desktop?

Because that's what Guy is going to do - see original post. He's on a budget and I assume he's not going to be shelling out money for a background music system.

[djEmpire]

Because that's what Guy is going to do - see original post. He's on a budget and I assume he's not going to be shelling out money for a background music system.

Gotcha. 

[Guy 13]

Hi all,
probably toward the end of this year my piggy bank will have enough $$$
to go ahead with my project of transferring my LP-CD to digital in my laptop,
however, I would prefer to store my music on USB key, it's like not putting
all your eggs in the same basket.

Guy 13
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