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Antiquated dads cd collection
Posted on 12/7/18 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 12/7/18 at 10:02 pm
My father has a huge cd collection that he would like digitilized to some format so he can access it on his iPhone.
I can think of multiple ways but I am looking for the quickest and easiest way.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I can think of multiple ways but I am looking for the quickest and easiest way.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted on 12/7/18 at 10:43 pm to LSUTigerDDS
Spotify
Posted on 12/8/18 at 6:06 am to LSUTigerDDS
Rip to iTunes and use iTunes Match. Pay $25/year and you have the ability to upload 100k songs to the cloud. He can either stream or download them to his iphone, access them over appletv
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Posted on 12/8/18 at 10:55 am to LSUTigerDDS
Create a mp3 or 4 using iTunes. It is then in your iTunes library and/or iCloud as you need.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 2:19 pm to Crow Pie
As had already been recommended why not just go to Spotify. Who buys music any more?
Posted on 12/8/18 at 2:21 pm to LSUTigerDDS
Some terrible answers in this thread.
If these are rare or collector CDs he wants to retain I can send you a link to a great toolkit that will rip them as 100% FLAC. That's right the geeks have figured out all FLAC rips aren't equal so this gives you the best result.
That way he has a lossless copy to preserve.
Then install Google music and point it at the directory where the rips are. Google will upload 50,000 songs for free and deliver it back at 320kbps on any computer, tablet or phone in existence.
frick apple and their bullshite services.
Back up the FLAC locally if he wants to keep a lossless copy.
If these are rare or collector CDs he wants to retain I can send you a link to a great toolkit that will rip them as 100% FLAC. That's right the geeks have figured out all FLAC rips aren't equal so this gives you the best result.
That way he has a lossless copy to preserve.
Then install Google music and point it at the directory where the rips are. Google will upload 50,000 songs for free and deliver it back at 320kbps on any computer, tablet or phone in existence.
frick apple and their bullshite services.
Back up the FLAC locally if he wants to keep a lossless copy.
This post was edited on 12/8/18 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 12/8/18 at 5:30 pm to CAD703X
Cad, I'd be interested in that.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 10:58 am to Geauxlden Eagle
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Cad, I'd be interested in that.
what platform would you be using? Mac? PC? Linux?
Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:43 am to weskarl
iTunes Match doesn’t guarantee you get the same mastering as your source. These can be very significant differences, far more so than bit rate, which is irrelevant for almost everyone under almost all conditions.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:47 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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iTunes Match doesn’t guarantee you get the same mastering as your source. These can be very significant differences, far more so than bit rate, which is irrelevant for almost everyone under almost all conditions.
i dont know what that is or means, but this did remind me that when google uploads your music if it finds a match in the database it defaults to that instead.
meaning, you're not uploading 100% of your music for free, you're uploading only the tracks missing from google's database and its 'giving' you access to the rest of 'your' music from its main library.
you can generally tell which is which by going into the track itself and if you see the checkbox 'play at original bitrate' that's a song actually uploaded (i think 320kbps is google's default transcoding).
the only way to retain a decent source is to archive your FLACs as well as uploading to google music for ease of access.
eta and don't forget to change it to 'play at maximum quality' under advanced settings to get the best quality streaming on your mobile device. i have tmobile so unlimited music streaming but i always have to remember to crank up the default quality in all my streaming music apps when i setup a new phone.
This post was edited on 12/10/18 at 11:50 am
Posted on 12/10/18 at 1:02 pm to CAD703X
CAD, what program do you use to RIP them? We have a bunch of CD's and would be interested in doing this.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 2:36 pm to RebelWithACause
It's a toolkit. Several utilities and a "how to" for best results.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 7:39 pm to CAD703X
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iTunes Match doesn’t guarantee you get the same mastering as your source. These can be very significant differences, far more so than bit rate, which is irrelevant for almost everyone under almost all conditions.
i dont know what that is or means, but this did remind me that when google uploads your music if it finds a match in the database it defaults to that instead.
That's what he's saying iTunes Match does, and he's saying it's a bad thing because you don't get the same exact version of a song as you originally had. For example, you might have gone out of your way to get a specific new remastered version of your favorite song, or maybe you just think the track sounds better on the 3rd batch of the Japanese release vinyl master like some crazy audiophiles do. But when you use Google/iTunes matching services you get the shitty common version.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 8:00 pm to efrad
Right, mastering differences includes things like the loudness wars and changing levels of instruments and voices. More rarely, there can be outright replacement of parts like with the original CD release of Tres Hombres, which somehow endured for 20 years before the original mix was released.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 9:09 pm to LSUTigerDDS
Got a pop-up ad on TD for this product. Might be the quickest and easiest way to digitize a large CD collection. It is definitely spendy though.
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Brennan B2 is a micro jukebox.
You can use it like a CD player - just put a CD in and press play. Instant gratification. But press another button and B2 copies the CD onto the hard disk.
Track, Album and Artist names are assigned as you load so you can find music by name later. By the way - you don’t need an internet connection to use B2 - its only really necessary for internet radio.
Store all your CDs on the hard disk and get instant access to any track and play unbroken music at the touch of a button.B2 uses FLAC compression that's a lossless compression technique so B2 stores an exact copy of what is on the CD.
2Tb model can store 5000 CDs as FLAC - perfect unadulterated copies of your CDs forever.
Find music quickly - just a few seconds to search for a track. Or simply scroll through albums using the volume knob.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 9:38 pm to efrad
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But when you use Google/iTunes matching services you get the shitty common version.
Because they can't store every single bit of data that every single person wants to upload.
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