Does this device exist?


I’m looking for a convenient way to get the music from my CDs (a couple thousand) into digital form. In my mind’s eye, I see a one-box device – I pop in a CD, it quickly and accurately rips the disc, with the option of choosing various formats, compressed or high-quality lossless. It stores the resulting files on an internal hard drive, or it allows storage on external drives, and easy external backup, too. It has a navigation interface as familiar and easy to use as iTunes (heck, it can be iTunes). It has a good digital output (preferably AES/EBU, but if that’s not available, then SPDIF or USB), so that I can use the DAC I already own. It is completely quiet during music playback – no fan noise, no strange mechanical or digital noises. It’s simple to use. It doesn’t result in a mess of wires and boxes all over the place. It doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. It just has to provide copious storage and a clean, audiophile-quality output to the DAC – and just for a single system, no whole-house server needed.

Any nominations? Thanks.
jhold
I use my IMac for the same purpose.
AND it connects wirelessly to my stereo thru and AirPort Express, though if I were doing it today, I'd use an Apple TV.
Then, from the AE to a nice DAC and use an Ipod Touch as the remote.

What could be easier?

Back up to an external HD or online and there 'ya go.
Magfan is right -- You've just described the Mac Mini in your question -- which I use exactly as you have described -- with output via both a USB connection and Airport Express with a TOSlink connection. It does have a fan, but I've never been able to hear it from more than a foot away. And you can use Time Machine to automatically back up your music collection.
Yes, but why would you want to waste your time doing the conversions. Best to hang on to the cd's, catalog them and spend your time listening to the music.