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Need Help Ripping My CD Collection

I want to get rid of my CD collection but I would still like digital copies of certain albums for when I can't stream Tidal. I was going to purchase an external SS drive to store them on. Can someone recommend a program intended for this application. Is FLAC still the recommended format for storing standard CD quality audio? I'm looking for the easiest solution that will give me CD quality files.Thanks for any help.
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reubent
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Hey jond,

I'm also getting ready to rip about 2000-3000 CDs. I've built an inexpensive music streamer/renderer using a Raspberry Pi 3 and HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro and it works pretty well with an external CD containing about 1500 tracks in AIFF format that I ripped via iTunes.

How many CD's did you rip on your laptop cd-rom drive? Did you rip to an external USB driver, internal drive or NAS? What are you doing for playback? 

reubent
3,587 posts
 
I read a review that said Bluesound Vault 2 took 15 minutes to rip an average CD using it's built-in CD drive. Is that right? If so, it would probably take me the better part of a year to rip my CD collection. Can you at least listen to the CD while it is ripping? In iTunes you can start listening to the ripped CD once the first track has been ripped.
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