Since i haven't played a CD in some years, i finally got around to getting rid of the dusty cd cabinet in the upstairs 'media room' sometimes called living room. As i boxed them up i realized there are some songs i don't have digital copies of so i will have to either spend time searching and downloading or digitizing them myself. Most of the stuff i have is eclectic so it is unlikely to be in an online music store.
Now that we are using Connect360 on the mac pro for all the existing MP3 files and Tversity on the windows server for all the FLAC's and movie files, there is no need to keep audio CD from long term storage. We will not be converting any audio cd's to MP3 but rather to the higher resolution FLAC as digital masters and then downconverting to MP3 as needed.
The problem is that i want to use the mac for ripping the CD's but i don't want to use iTunes for that. I want to rip to high resolution FLAC's and then convert to MP3's if needed. First we take a look at Max (http://sbooth.org/Max/) for OSX. While this is still beta (less than version 1.0) it has a lot of nice features. We set the output as FLAC to a folder on the external drive and insert and an audio CD. It gets the metadata from the net, rips and converts the files and ejects the disc, all in 3 minutes. Excellent!
Wonder if it supports multiple drives, i have a couple of Firewire external cd-rom drives, a plextor and a lacie i could hook up. All you would have to do is to feed it a CD every few minutes.
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