Oh yes, it kicks much booty - Just ripped my whole CD Collection to MP3 with RipDigital

August 03, 2004 Comment on this post [12] Posted in Musings

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August 03, 2004 13:18

Sounds good, but do they do vinyl, too? ;)

Graeme Foster

August 03, 2004 16:37

I've been thinking about doing this for a while now. Maybe I'll actually do it this time, thanks for the push.

Greg

August 03, 2004 17:43

good

mobile

August 03, 2004 19:09

Nice news... I haven't found such a service in France until now, too bad. I know the pain it is to rip the CD by yourself. So far, I've just reached something like 100 hours of music, and much of my CDs remain to be processed.

Christophe Lauer [MS]

August 03, 2004 20:14

That sounds like a sweet deal. Wish I waited, before I sat down and ripped almost 1000 CDs on my own. I had 4 drives ripping at once, though, so I had a whole assembly line thingy going. All in all, it's awesome having all my music at the click of a mouse. Don't know if I'll ever open up one of these jewel cases again. They're basically backups. I'll only need to if I have to "reinstall".

Mark Freedman

August 03, 2004 20:15

Couldn't resist the joke.
Judging by the screenshot you now have 23.9 GB worth of garbage LOL.
The way things are going, sonn you'll be able to send your CD's and receive them back along with an already loaded iPod.

Sergio Pereira

August 03, 2004 20:20

Actually ;) you can send the CDs to these folks and they'll send back a Firewire Drive if you like!

Scott Hanselman

August 04, 2004 11:31

What _exactly_ is the "unique identifying mark" they put in each file?

That's one thing that lept out to my mind - outside of that it looks like a really nice service.

JasonM

August 05, 2004 6:01

What do you bet that RipDigital keeps a massive databased repository of MP3's and use the CD that you send in as a license of your right to get a copy of songs from that repository. If you send in some obscure CD then they add it to their repository. Over time it would allow them to minimize the amount of ripping they had to do and expedite the turnaround time.

Shawn Swaner

August 05, 2004 13:22

Thats what I thought. They do specifically say in their faq that they don't do this though.

If they were to do this, wouldn't it mean that they themselves would need a license for the tracks?

Would be pretty sweet to just take a copy for your own personal use though...

Pete

Pete Bassett

August 06, 2004 19:16

Am I the only one who thinks that >$1 per CD is a bit expensive? I have more than 500 CDs and really don't want to spent $500 getting them ripped. I guess I'll just keep going with my "a few a week" approach.

Peter Provost

August 11, 2004 19:51

Too bad they do not have a repository of CDs already ripped. They could add to their service that ability to recover scratched CDs, which may add a lot of value to their service.

Any idea on what happens if you send them a CD in poor condition?

theCoach

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