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Stand alone cd ripper - does it exist?

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Bodhi

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Re: Stand alone cd ripper - does it exist?
« Reply #20 on: Yesterday at 03:29 pm »
What would Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper have to say about all this? :lol:
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Re: Stand alone cd ripper - does it exist?
« Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 05:19 pm »
Quote from: Bodhi on Yesterday at 03:29 pm
What would Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper have to say about all this? :lol:

He'd say "screw the hard drives, we need to do something about my impotence.  Maybe bomb Russia!"
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newzooreview

Re: Stand alone cd ripper - does it exist?
« Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 05:34 pm »
Quote from: duff138 on Yesterday at 03:14 pm
Do you know if this could be used as a USB transport?  I am looking for a usb CD transport, for the occasional CD listen.  One I could connect my Channel Islands DMC-1 Music Streamer.  I tried a Pioneer Blu ray/DVD ripper, but it would pause and spin between every track.

I don't know. I doubt it, however. The OWC Mercury Pro is designed to be controlled by the computer it's connected to. A CD transport for music playback typically has built-in controls to start and stop playback: the device that it's connected to is passively receiving the output from the transport, not controlling the transport.
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Re: Stand alone cd ripper - does it exist?
« Reply #23 on: Yesterday at 09:09 pm »
Quote from: Rusty Jefferson on 31 Aug 2025, 06:48 pm
Since you're starting a library from scratch I'd say a laptop or small PC as suggested as you'll likely need a tagging program to keep your files clean as well as ripping software (dbPoweramp recommended). Depending on what program you use to stream, they can be extremely fussy about tags. I check and modify as needed to keep things organized or inevitably you'll be unable to find the record you're looking for.

Also, you can have a separate backup of the library on the laptop/PC. Store them there with full FLAC compression to save space (still lossless), and export them to the NAS as full size files as you'll have plenty of storage space there.

dbPoweramp sounds very familiar.  Are they the ones who rank cd drives?  I'm going to have to go digging through old storage bins and boxes.  This could be good!

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« Reply #24 on: Yesterday at 10:15 pm »
Their rankings are here: https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/forum/dbpoweramp/cd-ripper/324732-cd-drive-accuracy-2024

But it's not meaningful. All the drives are ≥ 98% "accurate."

The differences are in the noise of the data set. In addition, the ripping software and setup of the software makes a big difference. If a CD is ripped in burst mode then it's much more likely to be inaccurate compared to using an error-correcting mode in the ripping app.
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