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Home ripping to flac

In my morphing hifi journey I have gone from vinyl records to cd’s and now streaming. I have 500 or so cd’s that I want to rip to flac files.  I’m looking for a player/gizmo that plays and rips with the ability to output to an external drive that I can load the files onto a Lumin L1. 

In the past I have used a service that rips but want to be able to rip in house and  maybe play a CD a few times a year. In other words the CD playing doesn’t have to be anything more than functional. 

I don’t want to rip with a CD drive into a computer….That’s to slow and a PIA for me.

I would be greatful for recommendations as to what to get. TIA




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tomcy6
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There are a number of music servers with cd drives for ripping CDs.  Innuos and Aurender are a couple off the top of my head.  How much do you want to spend?
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wsrrsw OP
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500-1500?

Maybe speed should be a factor too? The Astell & Kern AK CD Ripper MKII Seems slow?
djones51
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Astell & Kern AK CD Ripper MKII Seems slow?

You can only control this from an Astrell & Kern music player is that what you are planning one using? 
grey9hound
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If you are good with a PC , there is no better than Jriver Mediacenter .I would rip in uncompressed .wav.
Jriver gives you literally all options or format types for ripping and playing.
It gives you album art ,lets you categorize , make playlists sort ot search by Genre , artist , etc.etc.
You can tell it where to rip(store ) all of the files and you can use as many drives as you want . I use external USB drives personally . I have a 6Tbyte and a 4Tbyte drive .
I also highly recommend Backblaze or similar to backup all of them.
Well, i just saw that you said you do not want to use pc. JRiver makes it easy though.
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