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
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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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 |
Yesterday I tried ripping a CD to a random thumb drive to see if I could do it. I used Exact Audio Copy soft ware "ripper" and it ripped the CD. My problem is in the software I cannot figure how to tell it to rip to USB thumb drive. The folder labeled "Alice in Chains" is somewhere on the laptop in the EAC software , I just have to find it so I can send it to my thumb drive, once it’s there I can stick that in the N200. So it’s a process, I will get it figured out. My son will be here next weekend and I am sure he can help me too. Thanks guys! (I wanted to add I am recovering from back surgery so I’m a little slow in getting after things, secondly my pre amp is back at VAC for repairs so i am not in a hurry because of that. So this is delaying things too. ) |
@fthompson251 I would prefer to rip to my local hard drive and then copy direct to the Aurender unit or to the thumb drive anyways. The reason for this is that the internal disk’s writing speed is much faster and reliable to ripping direct to a thumb drive or network drive. I may be superstitious but it might be a way of ensuring a slightly lower noise floor in the ripping process, and I don’t mind copying the files to their destination after. |
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