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!
You can see my system in my profile. New speakers are on order to arrive soon!
There are two ways to do this but firstly you need to rip your CDs to your computer using DB Poweramp or Exact Audio Copy. Then copy those files to a clean USB stick and stick it into your Aurender. Then go into your Conductor app and select Library and then USB and then select which files you want to copy from the USB directory. Otherwise use the method above. |
@fthompson251 You only need ethernet for your Aurender to function. You connect to your Aurender using WIFI so you need your Aurender’s MAC address, can’t help you there I only use Windows. It’s important to connect using WIFI so you can re-name and organise folders and name tags. I like to change double and triple album CDs to a single CD. Just rip your CDs directly to your 512GB thumb drive then put it in the rear USB slot of the Aurender and use the Conductor app to copy to your 2TB SSD. 2TB is 2 Million GB, a CD is around 650GB so 2T divided by 650GB equals 3000 CDs. If you need more storage buy another 2TB or 4TB and put it in the second Aurender slot. You can copy from Slot1 to Slot2 BUT these SSDs are formatted using Aurender’s software so you can’t take them out and play them someplace else. I’d keep your 512GB thumbdrive as a backup, buy another when it’s full. |
