Unitiserve to borrow

Why aren't you using a normal PC (Win, Mac, Linux) to rip the CDs? 

Hi

Well after investing in the Superuniti, I like the fact that the unitiserve is an easy approach and very accurate.

I have looked at dbpoweramp and XLD but would prefer the U/S route.

TM

You would go stir fry crazy ripping 2000 CDs in a week. 

Sorry, I do not know if they can be rented but I suspect not. 

If you can't face ripping your CDs with your computer, have you considered a ripping service?

I ripped 600 CDs in six weeks. A bit of a pain, but I got through it.

ATB from George

If the unitiseve rips at the same speed as the hdx and you rip to wav you would struggle to rip 2000 CDs in a week. Takes an average of 6 mins per cd on my hdx which is 10 an hour, 240 a day, 1680 a week if you were working 24 hours a day!

Sounds unlikely to me, unless you've got a very good relationship with your dealer. Maybe worth looking out for a used one and selling it once you're done. (If you do it, remember to save rips as FLAC before you part with the Unitiserve, or you'll be stuffed.)

I don't understand this "rip all my CDs to my SuperUniti". The SuperUniti won't store your CDs.  You either need to keep the Unitiserve, which does store the CDs, or a NAS on which you can install a upnp server as well as the CD rips (or you could also store on a PC). So if you did rip all your CDs to a rented Unitiserve, you will then need to copy them all out again into a NAS or PC and 2000 rips will take a couple of days to copy across on top of the time you spending ripping.

best

David

I have a UnitiServe feeding a SuperUniti, with which I am very pleased. I spent the first 4 weeks of ownership ripping my 1500 CD collection in WAV format to the UnitiServe's hard drive, and was almost brain dead at the end! 

However I have since bought myself an A&K Jr player, which I wanted to load with FLAC files. Rather than convert my U/S collection, I decided to rip specific CDs via my iMac, using dbpoweramp, storing them in the U/S download folder, a folder on my Synology NAS and the music folder on my iMac.

To cut a long story short, the quality of the flac files is virtually indistinguishable from the wav files when played back via my SuperUniti! If you're not going to own the UnitiServe and benefit from ease of ripping, storage and playback, I really would recommend you do as advised previously and use your computer with dbpoweramp, rip into either flac or wav and store onto your NAS. 

Regards

tonym182 posted:

Hi

I want to rip all my CD's to my superuniti by using a unitiserve however my budget doesn't extend to purchasing the unitiserve.

Does anyone know if I can 'rent one' for a week to rip my 2000 cd's?

 

cheers

 

Tony

Tony, I do not know whether one can rent a US for a week and I never considered buying one for ripping my CDs.

I do not know why you want to rip 2000 CDs in a week. If you are not planning to do that for money or because of a specific need, I would suggest that you take a different approach. Ripping 2000 CDs in a week (or even in a month) is not fun, will likely yield poor results and leave you with a number of unsolved problems.

Take your time, start ripping 50-100 CDs, play around with what comes out, refine your workflow, folder organization and tagging scheme, test how well this scheme does support your searching and browsing preferences and habits. Configure your MinimServer installation (I would not consider any other server, in particular, if you are interested in classical music) to optimally exploit your tagging scheme, set up a simple and reliable backup strategy. Play around with a couple of control points.

When you are there and you feel confident about your approach, start ripping the rest of your CD collection in small bits. Achieving a well structured and well tagged collection should be a long, pleasant journey. Not a boring, mechanical work to get done as fast as possible!

It goes without saying that this is just my personal view. Whatever you'll do, good luck and have fun! Best, nbpf