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Ripping CD's to SSD?

OK, so be patient here with me, I am an "old" 68 year old audiophile from the 1980’s dealing with new technology. I was away from the Audio Scene for 20 years until I came back in 2021. SO I’ve updated most of my equipment. One of those updates is an Aurender N200, which I got this April. I added a Samsung SSD drive to it and was thinking I may like to rip a few CD’s to it for the sake of comparison vs streaming Qobuz.

 

Please understand when ya all start mentioning file types and all that I am in the weeds. I am behind the tiems.

 

What I can tell you is i have a 10 year old Macbook Pro running OS 10.14.6 Mojave. I have the external Apple CD drive. How do i go about placing the CD into the drive, attaching a USB cable to the Aurender and getting the file loaded onto the Aurender Samsung drive? Do I need any special software? Dom i just stick the CD into the drive and the Aurender is found on my laptop and i select it as the location for the file. Like I said this is all so new to me, I want to learn. I’d like to see how i like this compared to listening through my CEC Tl1x. If the explanation gets technical you will lose me, go slow and walk me through it if you are willing. And thank you!

 

You can see my system in my profile. New speakers are on order to arrive soon!

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lalitk
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+1, @blisshifi

One of the reason why I chose to invest in Aurender ACS100. Prior to acquiring ACS100, I used different methods to rip my CD’s and none of them were quite satisfactory in terms of ease, curation, playback and managing a large library of rips and downloads as ACS100. Since I continue to collect CD’s, ACS100 became essential to my system. Prior to ACS100, I owned Vault 2, while it ripped CD’s; the quality of metadata and playback was nowhere near the level of ACS100.

The ACS100 may be considered a luxury component for ripping and for those savvy with laptops and ripping but it does so much more, all from its superb ACS Manager iOS app. It is a must own component for those who wants no intervention with laptop, wants to rip on the fly and appreciates SOTA file management system and already own another Aurender.
https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10630

 

ghdprentice
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OP,

 

Sounds like you are well set up to perform your comparisons. I have done a lot of that over my time as an audiophile.it is the only way to be sure that the findings conform to your own hearing and values. Enjoy. It is also good to have a few CDs on your streamer in case there is a problem with your network and great way to evaluate futzing with your network.

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lordmelton
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@fthompson251 You only need ethernet for your Aurender to function.

You connect to your Aurender using WIFI so you need your Aurender’s MAC address, can’t help you there I only use Windows.

It’s important to connect using WIFI so you can re-name and organise folders and name tags. I like to change double and triple album CDs to a single CD.

Just rip your CDs directly to your 512GB thumb drive then put it in the rear USB slot of the Aurender and use the Conductor app to copy to your 2TB SSD.

2TB is 2 Million GB, a CD is around 650GB so 2T divided by 650GB equals 3000 CDs.

If you need more storage buy another 2TB or 4TB and put it in the second Aurender slot. You can copy from Slot1 to Slot2 BUT these SSDs are formatted using Aurender’s software so you can’t take them out and play them someplace else.

I’d keep your 512GB thumbdrive as a backup, buy another when it’s full.

mahler123
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OP I am not sure that you understood my last post.  To repeat, the first step is to record the files to the Samsung Hard Drive.  The Aurender doesn’t even have to be turned on for this.  Then attach the HD to the Aurender.  The MacBook doesn’t need to be turned on for this step.  As long as the Streamer can then play the files from the HD you are then set

p05129
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What a PITA! I remember when I had to do this before I got rid of my unit. You don’t need the usb stick, point XLD to your linked network drive which is the aurender disk.

BTW: how many of you aurender users backup your aurender disk drives that contain music data? Aurender is clueless about hardware when they claim they are “not content creators” so your drives are safe. Drives fail, no matter if they are HDD or SSD. Also, what happens when a drive fails and has to be replaced in the aurender server? Dealer fix or ship to aurender! No thanks

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