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Home ripping to flac

In my morphing hifi journey I have gone from vinyl records to cd’s and now streaming. I have 500 or so cd’s that I want to rip to flac files.  I’m looking for a player/gizmo that plays and rips with the ability to output to an external drive that I can load the files onto a Lumin L1. 

In the past I have used a service that rips but want to be able to rip in house and  maybe play a CD a few times a year. In other words the CD playing doesn’t have to be anything more than functional. 

I don’t want to rip with a CD drive into a computer….That’s to slow and a PIA for me.

I would be greatful for recommendations as to what to get. TIA




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grey9hound
1,112 posts
 
If you are good with a PC , there is no better than Jriver Mediacenter .I would rip in uncompressed .wav.
Jriver gives you literally all options or format types for ripping and playing.
It gives you album art ,lets you categorize , make playlists sort ot search by Genre , artist , etc.etc.
You can tell it where to rip(store ) all of the files and you can use as many drives as you want . I use external USB drives personally . I have a 6Tbyte and a 4Tbyte drive .
I also highly recommend Backblaze or similar to backup all of them.
Well, i just saw that you said you do not want to use pc. JRiver makes it easy though.
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wsrrsw OP
901 posts
 
"Astell & Kern AK CD Ripper MKII Seems slow? You can only control this from an Astrell & Kern music player is that what you are planning one using?" 

Shows what I don't know. I will not be using one. No.


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pjr801
192 posts
 
Always used a pc and EAC.
djones51
4,947 posts
 
  Ive seen people had good luck with the Bluesound vault not sure you can play CDs on it but once they're ripped to it you're good to go. 
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fuzztone
5,508 posts
 
dBpoweramp pretty easy.
At least you can tag as you prefer.
Better databases than EAC
You'll need them for classical.
Free trial.
WMP in 10 finally does flac. Run as administrator if it gives you any crapola.
I can't justify getting another box to accomplish what I can already do.
And I highly doubt comparable results at that price point.



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