An aquantance of mine has a CD collection and wants to rip it. They don’t want to stream it over a server but rather store it, say, on a hard drive connected directly to their speakers/receiver.
While they **don’t want to stream ** it wirelessly to/from their phone, they do want to control selection/playback.
Kind of like a remote controlled jukebox or, well, a really big CD player.
I am thinking there’s probably some raspberry pi project to play on-device music library that has a remote control library plug-in over LAN. I’d also like there to be a backup option, like a Pi GUI so they could see their library on the TV.
I’m envisioning an interface similar to the retro game players or kodi.
Does this exist?
FYI ripping wise, FLAC is the way to go.
And there are guides to using EAC and similar ripping software to get perfect rips.
Well worth the effort to do it once and perfectly.
FYI encoding wise, it’s unlikely that you can hear a difference between FLAC and e.g. Opus if you rip the audio from a CD.
Perhaps, but if you ever want to renecode to something else, it’s much better to have a lossless source to begin with. Storage is cheap.
This 100%. A FLAC CD rip is maybe 400MB. That’s 2,500 albums per terabyte, and I just recently got an 18TB drive for my NAS for $180. That’s $0.004 per album storage cost. I’d rather have a lossless permanent copy of any of my CDs than save fractions of a penny per album.
In most cases yes, but hdd space is cheap enough that lossless compression is just the best option. Can always use them as originals to spin off mp3s or other compressed files when needed.
300cds would only be around 120 gigs flac compressed
Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.
Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.