Ripping CD's to hard drive

dB Poweramp. 

As far as I know DSD 512 is the highest and be warned that one song takes up more space than a whole album at 44.1 kHz

I used JRiver on my Windows 10 PC, ripped entire collection to a NAS drive. I play my collection using JRiver software through a Parasound Zdac connected to Krell Preamp and Krell Amp, and Harbeth 40.2 speakers. Inexpensive, sounds great but slow ripping process.

@8th-note 

4000 discs?  Ulp!

I can't have ripped more than 400 of my discs and that was enough.

They're now in a bag in the attic along with the rest due to lack of space. I've probably only got around 100 still left downstairs.

It's hard to get the notion that the original CDs sound the best out of your head, even if there isn't the slightest bit of evidence to support it.

Besides some of them took a lot of getting hold of, eg 2003 Blonde on Blonde, Born to Run super bit mapping gold disc, Get Happy!! (Demon) and some are perennial favourites like Astral Weeks, Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper (87) etc

2) It compares your rip to a database to insure that it is completely accurate. 3) It fetches the metadata from the internet so you have the album info and the artwork all together in one folder.

Sounds like good features to have.

Ever since the Creevity Cover downloader software stopped working on my W7 PC I've had to add the art manually when I can be bothered.

CDBurnerXP is what I used to use to burn compilations after normalising levels with MP3 Gain.

These days it's easier to put the music on my phone and stream via my Ifi Zen Air Bluetooth streamer.

Of course it's even easier to use something like Amazon's Alexa but somehow for me that seems to cheapen the entire experience of listening.

And then there's the feeling that it's always listening to you...

if I may throw in a mini digression for my own situation: 

1. Ripped most of my small collection with a 2008 imac and itunes, mostly into lossless as offered by itunes of the early 2010s. They show as m4a, called AAC @ 256kbps bit rate, 44kHz sample, about 4mb for a two minute song.  I assume this is decent enough not to bother re-ripping, but what about going forward (I just downloaded fre:arc which looks promising and offers all relevant formats)?

2. been on Sonos for 2+decades so unllikely to use iTunes for any management but wondering if keeping similar formats in the library has any reason or consequence (i.e. mixing flac/m4a/wav in a single library). I don't remember (and paid little attention) to error issues (rarely streamed from my collection, used Rhapsody for access to much larger catalog, at pretty high and easily detectable compression). I guess I am still figuring out which management software I will use, but SONOS to lossless library on NAS or HD of the sweet little old iMac who is still kicking (but maybe ready for sale or retirement) is plan for now.