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Stevethecoffee

As the evenings seem really long these days I’ve decided to use the time to rip my CD collection.

Am I doing this right?
I’ll get an optical drive - is the quality of this important? I’ll also get an external SSD, rip from one to the other via something like Exact Audio Copy, then plug the SSD into the USB in of my streamer where Volumio should handle the rendering.

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ChasnotRobert in reply to @Stevethecoffee

I’ll get an optical drive - is the quality of this important?

IME - no.

I've ripped a couple of thousand CDs to flac using dbPoweramp; all good.

I have them on a spinny disc in the PC which is mirrored to a NAS. It makes sense to have two copies as I don't want to have to do them all again.

At some point I'm going to change the NAS to SSD - mainly to get rid of the noise.

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Stevethecoffee in reply to @ChasnotRobert

Cool, so best get 2 hard drives, keep one connected to the streamer, write to the computer one then copy it across the network?

Oh and does the read-speed matter? Is slower better?

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