Ripping CDs

If you hate the idea of using a computer, there is all in one rippers out there.

I frequently use a Cocktail Audio X45 that makes the process very simple. I prefer that to using the computer.   If on a budget, here is an idea:

Get yourself a used Sony HAP Z1ES.  Add a slim CD drive and you are in business.  It even works as a music server, and is a excellent player in its own right.   I liked it so much, I did a review of it here:  

You can buy a dedicated CD copier, but they are expensive.  If you buy a

streamer that rips CD’s as well, that will be expensive.  Getting a used computer somewhere would probably be your best bet.

@ghdprentice 

I believe you are assuming that the desired content is available through some subscription service, preferably one to which the OP is subscribed.  Yes?  Or am I missing something?

There are a few (not many) CDs in my collection that I cannot find on Qobuz, which is my subscription service.  I have to rely on my ripped copies of those titles.

OP, if you have a good relationship with a dealer, they may be able to rip your CDs for you for a nominal fee.  That is the route I followed myself.

It appears you are not set up to rip cds. Contract the job out to someone local to perform the task. Their fee may be as low as keeping copies of your music…

@linnvolk 

Yes, you are correct, I am assuming most all content is available. Most is. However, what happened to me, and I suspect what happens to most folks is that once the sound quality difference disappears and you have access to more than a million albums your focus shifts from playing the really restricted amount of music you have collected… carefully chosen to sound the very best because of it’s high cost, to exploring new music, enjoying thousands of albums you never knew existed.

When my streaming sound quality rose to my other sources, I think I called up the albums I owned for about a week, before I noticed an album I had never heard before from the same group while searching. Then I would remember a band I did not own. Then I started to just look at new albums, then choose genera and listen to new stuff. Very quickly I seldom would listen to the old stuff I owned. And when I did, if it isn’t there, there is a high definition version of one of their other albums or a better band. 
 

High quality streaming changes everything.