I recently used Progressive Labs in New York to rip 400-plus CDs. They were a mix of pop, classical, obscure and weird. $1 per CD, 3-4 day turnaround, reasonably good metadata (including classical) and excellent customer service. I researched and communicated with a number of other services before choosing Progressive.
This was after several years of planning to rip my own CDs “real soon now.” I also wasn’t looking forward to getting “CD elbow” from handling all those CDs and having to review and possibly clean up my own metadata for each CD. (Roon’s metadata was another reason for choosing Roon as my playback platform.)
If requested, Progressive will keep the CDs in the order in which they were submitted (except for CDs requiring manual intervention), making it easier to put the CDs back in the jewel cases if you are planning to do so.
Just a reminder - It is a copyright violation and a ripoff of the artists to sell the CDs after having them ripped.
I use iTunes and rip my CD’s to Apple Lossless (win 10) it’s takes a few minutes per CD but this will be laptop/PC specific. I’ve never had a problem with identification of the CD with iTunes although the artwork can sometimes be ‘absent’ but this is easily rectified. Roon recognises my Apple Lossless files and displays and plays them correctly.
You guys are way ahead of me, but I used JRiver for ripping, and I’m very pleased with the results. Still use JRiver from time to time, (for my local library), and still like it a lot.
Download Exact Audio Copy, it even compares your rip to a database of rips of the same disc for accuracy. It does a better job ripping than your CD player probably does playing it. It’s totally free.
No kidding about time–it took me 2 nfl seasons feeding one disc at at time to an Apple CD player/ripper–don’t think dB… was around when I did this Then pretty much lost it all when Apple Music appeared and My Library disappeared!! Thank you Qobuz/TIDAL on either ROON or Audirvana but not as good by a longshot to my YAMAHA dvd-c750 which is 5 disc changer playing dvd- dvd audio-sacd and they are still available on eBay and various audio sites
Ouch… So important creating backups. I’ve had the same beep happening as well in the past with iTunes erasing my library. Thank God I had a complete backup on a second hard disk which I was able to copy back.
All due to a setting in the iTunes options. Suffice to say, I’ve never used iTunes anymore after that debacle.
Nowadays I have my local library saved in the Cloud and on 3 hard drives at home. One is connected to my Roon Core. Number 2 is hooked up to my MacBook Pro and number 3 is stored in my desk.
I’ve ripped my music CD collection to uncompressed FLAC earlier this year using dbPowerAmp on my MacBook Pro with the aid of my good old Apple Super Drive. Worked fantastically most of the time. The handful of albums that dbPowerAmp failed to read were done with XLD instead.