I have decided the time has come to put our CD library - around
400 of 'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive - that
will rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory system
that can be sorted by track name, artist, or album, and be able
to retrieve track information from the Interweb. Basically I
suppose I'm looking for something like iTunes but I already use
that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?

TIA


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CDEX or CD executive but it would take a long time however you do it, as
every so often you find an album which is queried that does not seem to
exist, or has several similar matches but no direct one. also of course home
made compilations would need to be filled out manually.

Brian

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"Woody" wrote in message
...
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library - around 400 of
'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive - that will rip
the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory system that can be sorted
by track name, artist, or album, and be able to retrieve track information
from the Interweb. Basically I suppose I'm looking for something like
iTunes but I already use that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?

TIA


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

In article , Woody
wrote:
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library - around 400 of
'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive - that will
rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory system that can be
sorted by track name, artist, or album, and be able to retrieve track
information from the Interweb. Basically I suppose I'm looking for
something like iTunes but I already use that and want to keep this
library separate.

Anyone in the know?

Can't help for Windows OS I'm afraid. But there are Linux packages that do
that, so I assume you can find them for Windows as well. If not. I assume
you could dual-boot or VM Linux.

I just use a ROX front end for things like cdparanoia, but since I'm not
reading commercial recordings I don't use any of the 'read details from web
database' methods as there is no such info for the discs I read.

Slainte,

Jim

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"Woody" wrote in message

I have decided the time has come to put our CD library -
around 400 of 'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or
inexpensive - that will rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac,
provide a directory system that can be sorted by track
name, artist, or album, and be able to retrieve track
information from the Interweb. Basically I suppose I'm
looking for something like iTunes but I already use that
and want to keep this library separate.
Anyone in the know?

I use EAC which is freeware.

Woody wrote:
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library - around
400 of 'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive - that
will rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory system
that can be sorted by track name, artist, or album, and be able
to retrieve track information from the Interweb. Basically I
suppose I'm looking for something like iTunes but I already use
that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?

TIA


Does this help at all.

http://www.cdfinder.de/

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http://www.anindianinexile.com

David Kennedy wrote:
Woody wrote:
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library - around
400 of 'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive - that
will rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory system
that can be sorted by track name, artist, or album, and be able
to retrieve track information from the Interweb. Basically I
suppose I'm looking for something like iTunes but I already use
that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?

TIA


Does this help at all.

http://www.cdfinder.de/

You'll probably need this to go with it though...

http://sbooth.org/Max/

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David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

"Woody" wrote in message
...
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library - around 400 of
'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive - that will rip
the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory system that can be sorted
by track name, artist, or album, and be able to retrieve track information
from the Interweb. Basically I suppose I'm looking for something like
iTunes but I already use that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?


I use dbpoweramp to rip CDs. It is not free but you can download a trail
version. It calculates a checksum for each track which it compares to the
totals that have been calculated by other users, thus telling you whether
you have an accurate rip. It is also very good at finding track names from
the Internet. Much better than Windows Media Player. My music is stored in
flac format. dbpoweramp will rip to other formats if you downlaod the
appropriate codec.

I use a file system of type (Pop or Classical) / Artist / Album / Track

This works well for Pop and Jazz music, but is not so good for classical
music where the composer, orchestra, conductor and performing artists all
feature more prominently.

The track names being 01, 02, etc so that they are in the original
sequence.

I store the music on a Mediatomb uPnP server which like other uPnP servers
provides cross indexing. I also keep backups.

Foobar2000 is free and something you might want to try. There are a number
of servers that come to mind such Twonky and Squeezebox/Slimserver.


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Michael Chare

On 17/02/2010 22:57, Woody wrote:
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library - around
400 of 'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive - that
will rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory system
that can be sorted by track name, artist, or album, and be able
to retrieve track information from the Interweb. Basically I
suppose I'm looking for something like iTunes but I already use
that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?

TIA


You can always create a new library in iTunes for the purpose - I think
you're stuck with the album/artist/track file and directory structure
though.

"Rob" wrote in message
om...
On 17/02/2010 22:57, Woody wrote:
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library -
around
400 of 'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive -
that
will rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory
system
that can be sorted by track name, artist, or album, and be
able
to retrieve track information from the Interweb. Basically I
suppose I'm looking for something like iTunes but I already
use
that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?

TIA


You can always create a new library in iTunes for the purpose -
I think you're stuck with the album/artist/track file and
directory structure though.




I did think of that but won't it want to sync the lot my iPod
every time I connect it?


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

On 19/02/2010 18:03, Woody wrote:
wrote in message
om...
On 17/02/2010 22:57, Woody wrote:
I have decided the time has come to put our CD library -
around
400 of 'em - onto HDD.

I need a software package - preferably free or inexpensive -
that
will rip the CDs to mp3/wav/ogg/aac, provide a directory
system
that can be sorted by track name, artist, or album, and be
able
to retrieve track information from the Interweb. Basically I
suppose I'm looking for something like iTunes but I already
use
that and want to keep this library separate.

Anyone in the know?

TIA


You can always create a new library in iTunes for the purpose -
I think you're stuck with the album/artist/track file and
directory structure though.




I did think of that but won't it want to sync the lot my iPod
every time I connect it?


IIUC (for a Mac, in any case) you can only run iTunes with one library
active - I have to press the Option ky as it opens, and then select the
library I want. Then, if I didn't want it to sync, I'd clear that option
in iTunes.

TBH I don't spend a lot of time looking at iTunes, too much going on. I
let it do what it does, and use another front end (Front Row, or iPod
Remote). At least it has an accessible and reasonably organised file
system. For now.

Rob