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Hi Guys,

 

I'm going to send out most of my music CD collection to Ken of ALOaudio for him to rip into wav/flac with his new industrial CD ripper at 3.30pm later on today.

Before I send my CDs off on their journey, I'd just like to check if there is a local company that does the same as well. Shipping to the U.S. is expensive :(

 

The motivation for me to send my CDs in is because I want to enjoy my music in their full resolution with my new and incoming UE10Pros.

However, my entire music library is currently encoded with LAME in 320kbps, and since I don't have the time to rerip 150+ discs, I figured I'd just spend the money and get it done professionally.

 

If you know someone/company that provides a professional ripping service with the use of an industrial CD ripper, please PM me! Thanks!

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Congrats on the UE10Pros :D

 

First time I've heard of such a service though.

Is there anything special about the industrial CD ripper as compared to your average CD drive? Batch processing for all the discs?

 

Anyway, from my POV, I would stick to the 320kbps and do a slow transition over to lossless (encoding to FLAC seems to be pretty fast for your modern C2D processor), just to see if there is any difference in quality.

 

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I'm afraid you won't hear much difference between 320 kbps MP3 and FLAC encoded files, even with your UE10's. Certainly not enough to justify sending your collection overseas. You may even run into trouble at US customs when they see your collection because lately they've been checking CD's for hidden information or IP right violations. If you're really concerned, you might want to hire someone to do the ripping for you but I wouldn't do it if I were you.

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I'm afraid you won't hear much difference between 320 kbps MP3 and FLAC encoded files, even with your UE10's.

 

some people will be able to distinguish between the 2 formats. thru my cowon + customs, the difference is night & day. again, your mileage might vary.

 

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i suppose with accuraterip, the ripping should be fairly accurate when using cd-roms isnt it?

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Another reason why I'm using this service is because all the tags and album art will be in. If I were to rip them myself using EAC and accurate rip, coupled with my tagging process, each disc will take me 30mins. 200 CDs x 30mins = 100 hours, madness.

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i suppose with accuraterip, the ripping should be fairly accurate when using cd-roms isnt it?

 

exactly. and when the FLAC is decoded and burnt into CDR, it's the exact copy of the original, and to some people even better coz the burn is fresh.

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Another reason why I'm using this service is because all the tags and album art will be in. If I were to rip them myself using EAC and accurate rip, coupled with my tagging process, each disc will take me 30mins. 200 CDs x 30mins = 100 hours, madness.

 

 

speaking of tagging, i assume all your disc are english albums? I'm actually in the midst of ripping my cds into flac too. So far, i get 90% cd/track indentification with Freedb, but only 10% with album art. For non-english cds, i only get 50% indentification via freedb.

 

With metaservice, i get 80% for non-english. For the rest of the 20%, either type myself or copy and paste from websites. And trust me, i spent an equal amount of time tagging and setting up foobar's UI to my liking.

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I have finally received my CDs with the encoded tracks in a hard disk (:

I don't have a good comparison with regards to sound quality, but one immediate thing I noticed was a tighter bass when playing through my speakers

The CD repair process is just AWESOME, I can hardly believe it. Very badly scratched CDs are now almost flawless, save for a few hairline scratches.

 

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Ripped by Ken!

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Everything safely back home

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Whats the diff between industrial ripped and normal way of riping it?? moutain tortise here

 

well its like outsourcing your task to someone else.

 

the industrial is faster and has lot error rates because they are specialized for ripping.

 

 

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