CD Single ripping

Posted by: Mulberry on 22 December 2017

Hi,

I have ripped nearly all my CDs using XLD, my ancient Mac mini and its internal CD/DVD drive. But I have so far refrained from feeding my few CD singles into it. Am I right to assume that slot-loading drives and the miniature discs don’t work together?

Would it be safe to use an adapter (I should have one or two of them lying around somewhere), or should I simply try to borrow a top-loading drive? Otherwise I could unearth my wife’s equally ancient laptop and get some ripping software for it.

Other ideas, suggestions etc?

Posted on: 22 December 2017 by blythe

I wouldn't put a mini cd anywhere near a slot loading drive! It'd vanish never to be seen again and render the drive unusable until the disc were extracted from the drive.
For the price of a few mini singles, I'd personally download those singles titles instead.

Posted on: 22 December 2017 by notnaim man

Or, if a friend has a pc with a drive that accepts mini discs, copy it to a blank CD.......

Posted on: 22 December 2017 by hafler3o

I would have thought a ring adapter would be safe enough, but it would be best to post them to a forum friend who could then rip them saftely and upload the files to the cloud for you.

Posted on: 23 December 2017 by Mulberry

Thanks for your responses so far!

Blythe: somehow that hadn’t occurred to me. But as they are pretty obscure ones, only one is legally downloadable and only as MP3

Notnaim Man: that would work, but without Accurate Rip verification unless EAC or something similar is installed on the PC. In which case he could drop the WAV or FLÄCHE files on a stick.

Hafler: that sounds like the perfect solution nod