Does this device exist?


I’m looking for a convenient way to get the music from my CDs (a couple thousand) into digital form. In my mind’s eye, I see a one-box device – I pop in a CD, it quickly and accurately rips the disc, with the option of choosing various formats, compressed or high-quality lossless. It stores the resulting files on an internal hard drive, or it allows storage on external drives, and easy external backup, too. It has a navigation interface as familiar and easy to use as iTunes (heck, it can be iTunes). It has a good digital output (preferably AES/EBU, but if that’s not available, then SPDIF or USB), so that I can use the DAC I already own. It is completely quiet during music playback – no fan noise, no strange mechanical or digital noises. It’s simple to use. It doesn’t result in a mess of wires and boxes all over the place. It doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. It just has to provide copious storage and a clean, audiophile-quality output to the DAC – and just for a single system, no whole-house server needed.

Any nominations? Thanks.
jhold

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I did my initial conversion in the background while surfing the net and reading this forum. It was mostly painless and easy. Two stacks and just pop them in and it does its thing. Now that it is done, I listen to more music than I ever did. More varied to, as it is all at your fingertips. Spin vinyl, your bet! Spin CDs, never again if I can help it...
"The biggest problem is ripping the cds. A couple thousand cds at 6min a cd = 200hr if you rip constantly "

One can do this as they listen to them as well. In either event, they would need to be ripped regardless of what type of server. The cataloging is worth the effort alone.