So a friend of mine in the DJ industry acquired a competing DJ company in his area and is now in possession of at least 15,000 - 20,000 CDs in their collection. He has already started an ALAC rip of ...

It's 2026, and CDs are anything but dead. No, really — compact discs are the best bang for your buck medium for starting a physical music collection. Admittedly, I'm a vinyl head, but you won't beat ...

I can’t remember the last time I played music on a spinning compact disc. It’s been the better part of 20 years since I spent countless hours ripping CDs into a bloated MP3 collection, trying to call ...

Hi all, either I am weak with the Google-fu or this has not been addressed. I just recently lost my server and backups to bad karma (backing up server to external drive and got flooded. Say goodbye to ...

Learn how to rip CDs on Windows and Mac so that you can turn a physical format into a digital one. In ancient times—back in 2001—people knew how to do this, but much that should have been remembered ...

The EStone Ripper is an in-dash CD player for your car that can rip CDs directly to its internal hard drive. After filling it up with 5,000 songs or so, you can pop out the hard drive and back it up ...

In brief: Do you remember ripping CDs to save your favorite tracks, create a personal library or burn your selection to a new CD? Perhaps the last time was a decade ago. Nevertheless, the ability to ...

So a few weeks ago we reported that the RIAA had claimed that just ripping CDs was enough to get you sued. Later, jumping on the bandwagon, the Washington Post reported the same thing. Turns out, it’s ...

Two Washington-based companies have joined forces to offer a one-stop shop for iPod neophytes. MyerEmco AudioVideo is offering services from Riptopia — a company that specializes in “ripping” or ...

BMG Entertainment said Monday it will work with security technology provider SunnComm to create copy-protected CDs, one of a growing number of efforts by the record labels to combat alleged Internet ...

The RIAA has decided that, in its great wisdom, it disagrees with you ripping your own CDs to your own iPod. RIAA and other copyright industry associations have previously submitted a report claiming ...