Ripping CD's to SSD?
OK, so be patient here with me, I am an "old" 68 year old audiophile from the 1980’s dealing with new technology. I was away from the Audio Scene for 20 years until I came back in 2021. SO I’ve updated most of my equipment. One of those updates is an Aurender N200, which I got this April. I added a Samsung SSD drive to it and was thinking I may like to rip a few CD’s to it for the sake of comparison vs streaming Qobuz.
Please understand when ya all start mentioning file types and all that I am in the weeds. I am behind the tiems.
What I can tell you is i have a 10 year old Macbook Pro running OS 10.14.6 Mojave. I have the external Apple CD drive. How do i go about placing the CD into the drive, attaching a USB cable to the Aurender and getting the file loaded onto the Aurender Samsung drive? Do I need any special software? Dom i just stick the CD into the drive and the Aurender is found on my laptop and i select it as the location for the file. Like I said this is all so new to me, I want to learn. I’d like to see how i like this compared to listening through my CEC Tl1x. If the explanation gets technical you will lose me, go slow and walk me through it if you are willing. And thank you!
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I am expecting that finding, I didn't buy a big SSD, only 2T. One thing I wanted to understand is if the ripped version sounds different will it be because of anything I have in my network? If so I can work further to improve it, if not then my network is up to snuff. Secondly I wanted to have the option to store some of my favorite music so no need to pull out the CD's and stick them in the transport. And I guess I'd like to learn more of this as digital playback is continuing to progress. I gave up on vinyl and sold all of it a few months ago. I am all digital now. For better or worse, it has always pleased me. Thank you every one.
@mahler123 I will give that a try, I will connect USB to my N200 from Macbook and see if the the SSD is recognized. My laptop doesn't have a ethernet connection, wi fi only so it's not discovering the N200. |
Yesterday I tried ripping a CD to a random thumb drive to see if I could do it. I used Exact Audio Copy soft ware "ripper" and it ripped the CD. My problem is in the software I cannot figure how to tell it to rip to USB thumb drive. The folder labeled "Alice in Chains" is somewhere on the laptop in the EAC software , I just have to find it so I can send it to my thumb drive, once it’s there I can stick that in the N200. So it’s a process, I will get it figured out. My son will be here next weekend and I am sure he can help me too. Thanks guys! (I wanted to add I am recovering from back surgery so I’m a little slow in getting after things, secondly my pre amp is back at VAC for repairs so i am not in a hurry because of that. So this is delaying things too. ) |