Cambridge SoundWorks Offers Retail MP3 Ripping Service

<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>For those who have difficulty justifying the time it takes to transfer your CD collection to MP3 files (all three of you), Cambridge SoundWorks announced today that customers can now walk into any Cambridge SoundWorks' retail location, drop off their audio CDs and have them digitized and loaded onto an MP3 player. The new program, the first of its kind, is part of a partnership with Ready To Play, the premier company specializing in the conversion of audio CDs to digital format and loading MP3 players. Customer </FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>CDs will be shipped to Ready To Play, who has a team of specialists who professionally and quickly convert music collections to digital formats. Customers can choose to have their digitized music loaded directly onto an MP3 player or onto a DVD. The price of the service is $1.10 per CD.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>While I can see a group of executives crunching numbers over this idea and getting very excited, we would like to be the first to predict its rapid demise (with the additional guess that it will simply "quietly disappear" from the retail stores within a few months.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>[Read the Press Release]</FONT></P>
 
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psyclobe

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I think a service that tranfers ones mp3's to CD's would be of more value.

-Jason
 
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MDS

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hawke<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>While I can see a group of executives crunching numbers over this idea and getting very excited said:
I would back that prediction. There are a few such services, but $1.10 per disc sounds a bit lower than the other ones I've seen.

Let's see: 500 discs x $1.10 = $550. I can attest to the fact that ripping cds is very time consuming and some might be willing to pay for the service, but I think it's crazy. I do it manually, using Sound Forge, because sometimes you need to do minor editing. These services will just rip each track and you are stuck with the result. Not to mention the fact that if you ever lose those mp3s, you will get to re-rip all the cds again at additional cost (why I save the wavs from the cd).

Example: Styx - Paradise Theater. Track 1 is 'AD 1928'. Track 2 is 'Paradise Theater'. If you rip them as individual tracks, track one will end abruptly on the word 'Para' (the last line goes ...here at the Paradise). Track 2 will start abruptly on 'Dise.'. Those two tracks need to be combined into one song, the way you hear it on the radio - they never start directly at track 2.

Live cds have the songs run together as well. If you don't mind abrupt starting and ending with crowd noise, then those services will be fine for you. I, however, fade in and out to make it smooth. I can give countless other examples, but will spare you.

For casual listeners who value their time over the cash required, it may be useful. For music fans, like me, nothing short of 'as good as possible' will do.
 
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albakes

Audiophyte
Riptopia Rocks!

I think that this is a valuable service personally. Alot of people who have a combination of; an extensive cd collection, no time, expendable income and a desire to move to the convenience of a iPod or similar would benefit from this.

Personally I ripped maybe 10 cds to my iPod which took me three evenings, with a wife and kid breathing down my neck, then said "eff this" and went with riptopia
www.riptopia.com

Two days later and my iPod returned full, 300 cds on it. And as a back up they send a DVD (or DVDs) with the MP3s on it, so no worries about having to rip all over again.

And with Riptopia you can buy a new MP3 player that comes fully loaded and organized with your entire CD collection.

If you have the money and don't have the time then this is definitely the way to go.
 

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