ripping several hundred cds?

[Todd Slater]

Hi Matt,

On 11/26/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for xmas I'm switching our stereo over to an electronic system --
> probably a combination of an ipod and a linux player.
>
> as part of this project I want to rip all of our cds to mp3 or ogg (if
> someone has a suggestion ofr an ogg-friendly ipod-replacement?).  I'm
> doing enough of these that I'd like to have as little user interaction
> as possible -- just shove in the cd, have it automatically rip to a
> specifed location, then eject and on to the next one.  has anyone done
> anything of this kind before?  any suggestions?

I've found that most rippers have configuration settings for the
default path. You typically define the top level, and the ripper fills
in the rest based on the artist and album, so you might end up with
something like /mnt/media/lossy/ as your path, which your ripper will
finish with /mnt/media/lossy/artist/album or something.

In addition, rippers typically have an 'eject on completion' option. I
believe grip and soundjuicer do, anyway.

If you don't need a portable audio player like an ipod, I can highly
recommend the Roku Soundbridge for hooking up your PC to your stereo.
You run the Firefly Media Server on your PC, and it creates an
iTunes-like server (DAAP) that the Soundbridge reads, and streams
audio from your PC to Soundbridge (wired or wireless) to stereo. The
Soundbridge doesn't have ogg decoding by default, but it's easy enough
to set up transcoding on the PC so you can stream oggs without any
problem.

Todd