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fredr123 · 02-28-2012, 11:17 AM

This past weekend the wife and I moved our CDs from the media cabinet to a box in the basement. Ripping and converting the CDs came up in conversation and since then I've casually been looking into ways to make that happen. Ideally, I'd like to take everything in that box and convert it to an mp3 or something on a hard drive.

We have something like 250-300 disks to deal with. At about a $1 per CD plus shipping and media costs, it looks like a lot of the services advertised online will be pretty pricey.

On the other hand, the only computer I have access to at home is an oldish Macbook. Doing this myself is going to take a lot of time and time is money.

Have any of you gone through something similar?

Can anyone recommend a good service to take care of this for me (preferably an inexpensive but reliable service)?

If I undertake this myself, can anyone recommend some software (if more than iTunes is required) to accomplish this task? What about format and settings? I'd like a compromise between file size and audio quality. Is mp3 at 190 or 320 good enough?

02-28-2012, 11:17 AM	#1
fredr123 Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2004 Exp:	Digitizing CD Collection This past weekend the wife and I moved our CDs from the media cabinet to a box in the basement. Ripping and converting the CDs came up in conversation and since then I've casually been looking into ways to make that happen. Ideally, I'd like to take everything in that box and convert it to an mp3 or something on a hard drive. We have something like 250-300 disks to deal with. At about a $1 per CD plus shipping and media costs, it looks like a lot of the services advertised online will be pretty pricey. On the other hand, the only computer I have access to at home is an oldish Macbook. Doing this myself is going to take a lot of time and time is money. Have any of you gone through something similar? Can anyone recommend a good service to take care of this for me (preferably an inexpensive but reliable service)? If I undertake this myself, can anyone recommend some software (if more than iTunes is required) to accomplish this task? What about format and settings? I'd like a compromise between file size and audio quality. Is mp3 at 190 or 320 good enough?