[SoCalWJS]

I'm looking for an easy and simple (and inexpensive  ) way to get accurate, high quality (Lossless) files from a few CD's onto a USB Thumb Drive. This would be an experiment so that I can have a few of my reference demo pieces on a drive that I can take to dealers and/or shows and it's small enough to fit into a pocket for ease.

If it all goes well, I might get serious about starting to move more things over to discless. I have an Oppo 95 (for now) and would just use the front port to plug the USB drive in and see how it goes.

I downloaded dbPoweramp's free trial and ripped a CD for experimenting and was successful, but I don't see a way to move the files to another drive. Am I missing something? Do I need to do something else? Does the trial version not support this?

 

[this_is_vv]

I'm looking for an easy and simple (and inexpensive  ) way to get accurate, high quality (Lossless) files from a few CD's onto a USB Thumb Drive. This would be an experiment so that I can have a few of my reference demo pieces on a drive that I can take to dealers and/or shows and it's small enough to fit into a pocket for ease.

If it all goes well, I might get serious about starting to move more things over to discless. I have an Oppo 95 (for now) and would just use the front port to plug the USB drive in and see how it goes.

I downloaded dbPoweramp's free trial and ripped a CD for experimenting and was successful, but I don't see a way to move the files to another drive. Am I missing something? Do I need to do something else? Does the trial version not support this?

 

Foobar with Flac should resolve it or can save it as wav file as well.

[shawbros3]

I downloaded dbPoweramp's free trial and ripped a CD for experimenting and was successful, but I don't see a way to move the files to another drive. Am I missing something? Do I need to do something else? Does the trial version not support this?

 

So you successfully ripped the the audio files to your main drive, right?  I think all you need to do now is just drag/copy those files onto the USB drive?  You would do the same thing with any other file you have transferred to the USB drive.  Or you could just point the default output folder in dbPoweramp to your USB drive.  Somehow this is what I thought you were asking, at least that's how I read your ask?

Good luck!

[SoCalWJS]

So you successfully ripped the the audio files to your main drive, right?  I think all you need to do now is just drag/copy those files onto the USB drive?  You would do the same thing with any other file you have transferred to the USB drive.  Or you could just point the default output folder in dbPoweramp to your USB drive.  Somehow this is what I thought you were asking, at least that's how I read your ask?

Good luck!

On second thought, maybe I didn't. After closing the program and reopening it, there are no files.

Where did they go? I see nothing for options and and I would imagine that the default sends the files to dbPoweramp, but nada.

I can't find any setting to choose the destination of the files when I rip them, only the choice of source drive. After I initially ripped the files, I highlighted the tracks and right clicked, assuming that that would open up a "send to" option, but no luck there.

There's gotta be more to this. Another program? (the "playlist"??)

[shawbros3]

On second thought, maybe I didn't. After closing the program and reopening it, there are no files.

Where did they go? I see nothing for options and and I would imagine that the default sends the files to dbPoweramp, but nada.

I can't find any setting to choose the destination of the files when I rip them, only the choice of source drive. After I initially ripped the files, I highlighted the tracks and right clicked, assuming that that would open up a "send to" option, but no luck there.

There's gotta be more to this. Another program? (the "playlist"??)

Here's the guide:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper-setup-guide.htm

Go to where it says "Configuring Audio Encoder" and just set the "path" to point to your USB drive or folder on the USB drive.  The music you ripped is there, it's in a default "Music" folder perhaps in the dbPoweramp directory?  dbPoweramp is just a ripper, it won't show the files you ripped in a playlist like iTunes, etc...

I just started using the trial version of dbPoweramp to rip WAV's that can be tagged and identified by Jriver and it works just fine.  It just takes a few tries to get used to the interface and appears to be a solid ripping program.

Good luck man...

[SoCalWJS]

Here's the guide:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper-setup-guide.htm

Go to where it says "Configuring Audio Encoder" and just set the "path" to point to your USB drive or folder on the USB drive.  The music you ripped is there, it's in a default "Music" folder perhaps in the dbPoweramp directory?  dbPoweramp is just a ripper, it won't show the files you ripped in a playlist like iTunes, etc...

I just started using the trial version of dbPoweramp to rip WAV's that can be tagged and identified by Jriver and it works just fine.  It just takes a few tries to get used to the interface and appears to be a solid ripping program.

Good luck man...

I saw this portion of the instructions and went through them before I downloaded the program and again as I did my initial config, but I didn't see anything resembling a "destination" option (I could be missing it)

I DID find where the files went (Music directory in Windows) and found that I could highlight the tracks, right click and then send to my USB drive. I will experiment later to see if they are playable on my Oppo.

Middle of a big Thunderstorm right now (again), and I'm too chicken to fire up the system with all the Lightning

[shawbros3]

I DID find where the files went (Music directory in Windows) and found that I could highlight the tracks, right click and then send to my USB drive. I will experiment later to see if they are playable on my Oppo.

If you notice in your config right now, it's pointing to the Music directory in Windows, so all you have to do now is set the new path to your USB drive or a folder you created on your USB drive.  Then you should be good to go

The Oppo is very versatile and will play almost any audio or video file, except it throws up when it sees the evil "Apple" format AIFF/AIF.

[SoCalWJS]

If you notice in your config right now, it's pointing to the Music directory in Windows, so all you have to do now is set the new path to your USB drive or a folder you created on your USB drive.  Then you should be good to go

The Oppo is very versatile and will play almost any audio or video file, except it throws up when it sees the evil "Apple" format AIFF/AIF.

Thanks! I had to go to "set". I was only looking at the drop down options and not seeing it. Giving it another go. The lightning has stopped, so I may run upstairs and give it a shot in a bit.

Using the default FLAC for right now. So much conflicting info as to what sounds best. Looking for something to just get my feet wet for now.

Thanks again!

[*Scotty*]

Here is a screen shot of the dbpoweramp ripping screen

The Path probably shows the default send to location of My Documents,My Music folder which is probably were what you ripped went.
If you click on the Set button you will get a drop down menu and you can specify the drive and folder were you want the ripped file to reside. As others have said you can just drag and drop your specific album folder to any drive you want. I rip directly to an outboard drive dedicated to my music collection.
Here is a link to a tutorial on setting up the ripping program for secure ripping.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper-setup-guide.htm
There are settings that you have chose in order to secure rip your CDs. The default settings on the ripper are preset for un-secure burst ripping with no error correction enabled.
I love this program but you have to set it up correctly in order to justify paying for it.  I rip directly to wavfile format, storage is cheap and this eliminates one more step a playback program has to perform on the file before playback.
Scotty

[SoCalWJS]

Here is a screen shot of the dbpoweramp ripping screen

The Path probably shows the default send to location of My Documents,My Music folder which is probably were what you ripped went.
If you click on the Set button you will get a drop down menu and you can specify the drive and folder were you want the ripped file to reside. As others have said you can just drag and drop your specific album folder to any drive you want. I rip directly to an outboard drive dedicated to my music collection.
Here is a link to a tutorial on setting up the ripping program for secure ripping.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper-setup-guide.htm
There are settings that you have chose in order to secure rip your CDs. The default settings on the ripper are preset for un-secure burst ripping with no error correction enabled.
I love this program but you have to set it up correctly in order to justify paying for it.  I rip directly to wavfile format, storage is cheap and this eliminates one more step a playback program has to perform on the file before playback.
Scotty

Thanks *Scotty*!

Yeah, I figured it out thanks to Shawbros3. Got it onto the USB drive, plugged it in and everything worked. Now I need to adjust a few settings and do it right - I left everything (pretty much) in the default mode. Got to the end of the first track (Supertramp:Crime of the Century:School) and it had that blasted gap between tracks. 
I'll probably delete everything and start over - maybe get a bigger USB drive (Seems like I've got a fairly new 32GB around someplace, but I can't find it right mow)

[*Scotty*]

The gap between tracks that occurs during playback can be eliminated most of the time by choosing gapless playback if that option is available on the Oppo 95. I don't know if you can just use the Oppo as a DAC and feed it directly from a player on your computer such as foobar or JRiver18. Both of those players give you the option to playback gapless. I have had better luck playing back gapless from JRiver than foobar for some reason.
Scotty

[SoCalWJS]

The gap between tracks that occurs during playback can be eliminated most of the time by choosing gapless playback if that option is available on the Oppo 95. I don't know if you can just use the Oppo as a DAC and feed it directly from a player on your computer such as foobar or JRiver18. Both of those players give you the option to playback gapless. I have had better luck playing back gapless from JRiver than foobar for some reason.
Scotty

I would have thought it was a setting in the ripping process - but I don't know this stuff that well. I'll take a look next time I fire up the system snd see if it's an option on the Oppo.

I'll have to take a look at JRiver before I commit to dbpoweramp.

[Hipper]

Presumably you are ripping separate tracks. The Ripper is only copying those tracks and not the gap between.

It is your player that needs to be altered in order to have or remove gaps. This can be a nuisance when playing tracks that on a CD are joined but are copied as separate songs. What I do is join them using something like Nero Wave Editor.

On dBpoweramp you can rip the whole CD, or two tracks say, as one entity by using 'rip as one'. After inserting the CD you will see the 'rip as one' button under the red help button on the top row. Here are the instructions, about three quarters of the way down:

D:\Program Files (x86)\dBpoweramp\Help\dMC\CDadvanced.htm

Once you've started ripping you will have to consider how to manage your growing library, as well as the format. Do this before you start out otherwise you will find you make a lot of extra work for yourself.