Personally I have an external CD drive plugged into my computer into MusicBee and then also a portable one with a case for on the go :)

  • @HakFoo
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    41 year ago

    I rip the discs and put them in an old Sony 300-disc DVD jukebox. Theoretically, that’s wired to the hi-fi, but it mostly gets turned on to add discs these days.

    I actually ended up in a very interesting rabbit hole recently: reliable ripping isn’t always easy. I tried a brand new disc in several drives and got inaccurate rips when connected to my mainboard, but one or two drives would work. It wasn’t just bad checksums, it was data faults that were quite audible on mid-fi gear. Both a brand-new Piodata drive and a motley assortment of used LG ones misbehaved, but an old Samsung seemed reliable.

    However, once I bypassed the motherboard’s SATA chipset-- using either USB -> SATA adaptors or a $15 “m.2 to five SATA ports” adaptor, the drives all produced quality rips. I suspect this might have started when I swapped in an ASRock X670E Pro RS mainboard (TBH, I’m intentionally stuffing this comment with keywords in case someone else has the same issue and searches for it)