[tdb4rdd]

I am new to digital music so looking for your advise.

I am thinking of going BDP route with digitizing all my current CDs using Bryston SP3 as DAC and Pre-amp. I also have Apple computers at home that I can use to rip the CDs and store the music. I am looking for a simple one-box solution where I can insert CD and it automatically rips and stores files into common format.

So I am looking forward for following

- What software you use on Apple If I rip my CD on iMAC?
- What one-box solution you use to rip CD that supplements BDP

Thank you.

[saveloy]

Oh boy.........

Firstly, welcome & congratulations for joining the finest hi-fi community on the planet.

The finest ripping software for use on a Mac is XLD.  It is free, open source and infuriating!  Although it works, it is not particularly user friendly or efficient.  But, as a Mac user myself it cannot be bettered. 

Unfortunately, there is no one box solution. 

The best solution is the one you, most likely, do not need me to visit; dbpoweramp.  I do hope this has not been mostly irritating.

Kyri

[Chromisdesigns]

dbpoweramp runing in a Windows partition / virtual machine on your Mac.  It's as close to a "insert and forget" solution as you are likely to find, once you get your ripping and naming parameters set up (which can take some twiddling).

I rip in the background typically while I am doing other stuff on the machine.  Literally, insert CD, hit "rip", do something else until you get the popup window telling you it's done. 

If you have iPods or other devices that can't practically use lossless files, it's pretty easy to set up dual rips to FLAC or Apple lossless and also to a compressed file.  I have two directories on my big external drive, one for FLACs and the other for AAC for my wife's iPod.  Once set up, it's all automatic.

It won't run native on Apple OS, but so what...you probably will have other stuff that needs Parallels or VM-Ware anyway.

[totoro]

dbpoweramp runing in a Windows partition / virtual machine on your Mac.  It's as close to a "insert and forget" solution as you are likely to find, once you get your ripping and naming parameters set up (which can take some twiddling).

I rip in the background typically while I am doing other stuff on the machine.  Literally, insert CD, hit "rip", do something else until you get the popup window telling you it's done. 

If you have iPods or other devices that can't practically use lossless files, it's pretty easy to set up dual rips to FLAC or Apple lossless and also to a compressed file.  I have two directories on my big external drive, one for FLACs and the other for AAC for my wife's iPod.  Once set up, it's all automatic.

It won't run native on Apple OS, but so what...you probably will have other stuff that needs Parallels or VM-Ware anyway.

I agree with this. I run linux at home, and run windows inside of vmware just so I can use dbpoweramp. One of the things I love about dbpoweramp, imo is that it can use several sources for metadata. I don't enjoy typing all that stuff in myself (especially for things like cds full of Bach cantatas, where there is a lot of information to write down. And once you've calibrated your drive, it's about as secure a ripper as exists.

[SHV]

I use XLD.  Down load it and see if it works for you.

Steve

[tdb4rdd]

Thanks to all.