Ripping CD for Ultra playback

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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
 
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Back in the day computers had built in cd/dvd drives.
Do you have a drive that can connect to the computer via usb?

Both those pieces of software have been suggested here, yes.
Personally I used eac because it was free and did what I needed. It performed a lookup to pre-populate the cd info and cover art, the info could update before ripping (I hated when song titles had typos!), and ripped to flac with a template file structure/ file name.
Any tagging errors found later can easily be fixed with programs like mp3tag.

I don't think there's a 'certain' way to set up the file system, but something like a top level 'Music' folder that contains a folder per artist which each contain a folder per album is one way.
The file names themselves are often something like track number - track title, where track number is always two digits so it orders nicely as a string when you look in the folder.
Maybe even disk number track number track title.

Depending on how you access the files you might rely solely on the tags, so some might argue that the physical file structure is somewhat irrelevant.
Do you intend the plug the HD into the ultra's usb port? If so, others here might have some tips as the media server used within the ultra is more limited than most.

I'd imagine a quick internet search for how to rip cd using eac / dbpower would throw up a few instructions / videos.
 
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Elsewhere here this has been discussed a couple of times already.

If you search you should be able to find
 
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Hi,
+1 to the reply from Mr Ee. This is what j used and how I did my 100+ cds.
It does take time, so a midwinter project is about right.
My early mistake was to not spend enough time getting the tags in good order, so do a few (and include some classical 8f you can) then test them out in the library of your choice, to see what tagging suits you. Genre and year turned out to be as useful for me as the obvious items, and I had to go vack and edit a lot!
 
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If dBpoweramp covers all your tagging needs then use it (notable exceptions are ReleaseType and OriginalReleaseDate), otherwise you're looking at multiple tools e.g. EAC and
  • foobar2000 & Album Art Downloader
  • Mp3tag & foobar2000 (for replaygain)
And that doesn't cover HDCD or discs with pre-empjasis (although both are only found in a small quantity of discs from the 80s/90s).

Personally I use EAC with foobar2000 and Album Art Downloader, but dBpoweramp is the right choice for most.
 
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I immediately smiled when I saw the word ‘project’. I love these.

Okay, to rip your CDs, unless you buy a standalone unit, you’ll need a PC with a built in optical drive, or with an external drive. If you don’t have an external drive, and you don’t need DVD or Blu-ray functionality, you can pick a CD drive up for £30 or less.

If the only thing you need to do for your music with your PC is rip the CDs, you can use almost anything. With Windows you can download Windows Media Player for free. It’s very much out of fashion, but if ripping is all you want, it’s Janet-and-John level easy.

It’ll add your tags, but I’m not sure about album artwork. But if you’re in a ‘project’ you’ll have fun looking into doing this yourself.

Anyway, rip to your PC (which will act as a back up, if you wish), then when you’ve ripped everything, put it on a USB drive. Stuck that in the back of the Ultra, bingo bango.

Good luck.
 
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Steve Woodhouse said:
I immediately smiled when I saw the word ‘project’. I love these.

Okay, to rip your CDs, unless you buy a standalone unit, you’ll need a PC with a built in optical drive, or with an external drive. If you don’t have an external drive, and you don’t need DVD or Blu-ray functionality, you can pick a CD drive up for £30 or less.

If the only thing you need to do for your music with your PC is rip the CDs, you can use almost anything. With Windows you can download Windows Media Player for free. It’s very much out of fashion, but if ripping is all you want, it’s Janet-and-John level easy.

It’ll add your tags, but I’m not sure about album artwork. But if you’re in a ‘project’ you’ll have fun looking into doing this yourself.

Anyway, rip to your PC (which will act as a back up, if you wish), then when you’ve ripped everything, put it on a USB drive. Stuck that in the back of the Ultra, bingo bango.

Good luck.
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Does Windows Media Player use AccurateRip? I've had some faulty rips when using software that doesn't verify the result.
 
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d6jg said:
Yes no issue. I am in UK.
If the artwork is there (it can be a little limited) it is very high quality as you probably know.
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It times out for me, also in the UK, even on a mobile connection!
A very good site for those hard to get, older covers.
 
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slartibartfast said:
Does Windows Media Player use AccurateRip? I've had some faulty rips when using software that doesn't verify the result.
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I’m not sure. I ripped all my CDs using it, but that must have been 15-20 years ago.

I’ve not bought many new CDs recently, but it appears to rip perfectly, and…I’m not sure if it ever pulls artwork, but I know it’s failed to do so at least once.

No problem, nice project to update everything anyway.
 
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I use dBPoweramp. Not free, but nice feature set, with Accurip and DSP functions like adding Replay Gain and album artwork in one shot. Also has other tools for file conversion, etc.
 
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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.
 
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rubato said:
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.
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Starting about 20 years ago in my LMS days I did this starting with genre, artist, album. It really helps down the road.
 
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rubato said:
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.
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You should be able to automate the vast majority of it with foobar (File Operations) or Mp3tag (Convert>Tag-Filename).
 
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