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!

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Showing 1 response by vonhelmholtz

I did this within the last year. You should download DB Poweramp from their website. It works with High Sierra and after, so you should be ok. You might need to ok downloading from a third party source when downloading. Make sure that your computer and your Aurender are on the same network. You should be able to format the SSD from inside of Conductor. I ripped and downloaded all of my CDs previously to a network server, but you can rip directly to the Aurender. It should show up on your network. Go through the conductor ‘Settings” menus in order to understand how network/storage..etc… all works. It isn’t that difficult. I’m older than you and just got back to two channel equipment/listening last year. It isn’t that complicated. In general you can make mistakes along the way and learn. That is what I did.

If you find it easier, you can rip to a local computer drive and then just copy and paste the ripped files to the Aurender’s SSD.