Ripping CD for Ultra playback

Reallyjoe

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Morning
Looking for a mid winter project. I would like to rip my CD collection and playback on the ultra.
So I have about 700 disc. A LG UHD disc player. How do I go about putting them on a HD to connect?
I gather I should use EAC or dbpower for software. Is their a certain way to set up the file system.
Any suggested tutorial to watch?
Thanks
 
The point I would make is that burning the CDs and creating the files is the easy part. My best advise (and what several other posters I think are alluding to) is you really want to be careful and organized with how you create the tags and you want to do the tags as you go, not as a separate exercise. Years ago I burned all my CDs and just used the tags from the CDs metadata, many were fine but lots were all over the damn place. Particularly multiple disk albums, soundtracks, classical, jazz and compilations, but even simple things can screw up the software from “just playing the album”.

A couple of years ago I ended up just re-burning all of them again, it was just easier than sorting them out one by one. I used the open source software from MusicBranz with their tagger software MusicBranz Picard (others mentioned above work great too). Here is their suggested work flow for your situation: https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/workflows/workflow_cd.html

It is much more enjoyable now to play my old CDs when the software finds the whole album with right cover art and it also makes all of the playlist generators work better and find songs I had forgotten about. Good Luck!
 
Fortunately the OP only has 700 albums.

Now that might sound like a lot, but 95% will be very straightforward, and the remaining 5% of multi-disc albums etc. will only amount to 30-40 discs to edit. He’s called this a project, and we all like to mess around with stuff. He’ll be fine.

I completely agree with ensuring you have artist and album folders. The ripping software will usually give you options, which is great.

The trick is, when you’ve finished ripping the 700, restructure your folders to how you want them. When you buy a new album, rip it up somewhere temporary (I have a folder for this on my desktop) then place the rip manually where you want it.
 
Here's what not to do: don't just dump everything into one directory. I did that starting out, figuring that the tags were enough organization, and years later I keep promising myself that I will straighten out that mess someday. One folder per album is much better.

I remember someone asking me to sort his music collection out

Roughly 20,000 files, in one single directory. Random filenames. Zero tagging at all. Tags were all empty

NAH I just said delete the lot and start again would be quicker just to re-rip/encode than to spend weeks going through each one
 
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