Suggestions for external drive for ripping?

[Fahzz]

Need recommendations to buy external cd/dvd drive for ripping. New
laptop has no internal drive. Have these things gotten to the point
where they are interchangeable or are there significant features I
should look for? Thanks.



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[w3wilkes]

Seems that if you ever use your laptop as a video player you should go
all the way to a bluray player. My laptop has hdmi out and I've used it.



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[maggior]

I think any drive you find will rip audio. The question is how fast,
reliable, and accurate will it be.

Throughout the years, I have always found built in laptop optical drives
to be horrible for ripping CDs. They would be VERY slow and generate
errors on the slightest flaw in the CD. It seems that external USB
optical drives use the same laptop optical drives in an external
housing. Unlike years ago when external drives were full size drives in
an enclosure.

It's more expensive, but you might find your best solution is to
purchase a 5 1/4 enclosure with a USB interface and install a full size
DVD drive in it. The drive will be much cheaper than the enclosure most
likely. All new drives are probably SATA, so you'd want an enclosure
that is USB out and SATA inside.

This might give you some ideas of drives that would work best from an
accuracy standpoint:
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?34019-CD-DVD-Drive-Accuracy-List-2014

Good luck!



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[Fahzz]

Thanks for the input. I went cheapo for now, but then I always used my
old laptop drive for ripping anyway. If I was just starting out I might
go upscale, but I'm too far along already. I'll see how it goes.



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[atrocity]

Post by maggior
It's more expensive, but you might find your best solution is to
purchase a 5 1/4 enclosure with a USB interface and install a full size
DVD drive in it.

I've also found it extremely useful to have multiple drives from
multiple manufacturers and different eras. I've encountered too many
discs that can barely be read in one drive but work fine in another. I
still have to pull out a circa 2000 Plextor or an equally ancient Teac
once in a while when nothing else will work.


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[w3wilkes]

One other thing to mention along with the hardware... Using quality
ripping software like DBPoweramp or EAC using AccurateRip helps to
ensure the rip is good.



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[RonM]

I'd get a BluRay capable drive; a lot of music is being distributed on
BluRay, and you can get ripping software specifically for capturing
audio from DVD/BR. You might be best served by going the route of
buying an internal drive along with an enclosure, as suggested above.
Doesn't have to be real expensive.

R.



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[DJanGo]

I have always found built in laptop optical drives to be horrible for
ripping CDs.
They would be VERY slow and generate errors on the slightest flaw in the
CD.
It seems that external USB optical drives use the same laptop optical
drives in an external housing.

Yupp and the reason "why" is quite simple:
Full 5/14" CD Devices (R/R-W) are powered with 12 AND 5 Volt -
notebook/laptop slimsize only with 5 Volts.
If you want to rip - go the "old" fullsize way.



Gruss

Jan
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[Fahzz]

Now you guys have given me something else to obsess over. So does EAC
correct hardware errors?



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[get.amped]

Post by Fahzz
Now you guys have given me something else to obsess over. So does EAC
correct hardware errors?

EAC will use the error correcting features of the HW to improve read
accuracy.



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[Julf]

Post by Fahzz
Now you guys have given me something else to obsess over. So does EAC
correct hardware errors?

But it can't correct uncorrectable errors. Accuraterip check is always a
good idea.



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fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt
edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953
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[atrocity]

One big advantage to dBpoweramp is the fact that it will read a track,
compare the results to AccurateRip and immediately move on to the next
track if the extraction is accurate.

Unless things have changed, EAC will always read the track/disc multiple
times and only at the end report AccurateRip results. You get the same
file in the end, but EAC will take significantly longer to give it to
you.

The frustrating thing is that in any big enough collection, you'll have
mystery CDs that look and play fine but will be a serious pain in
multiple body parts to rip. Some won't work well in any drive, others
will read quickly and well in another but doom you to thousands of
sector re-reads in another.


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