When you have a massive CD collection and want to convert it to losses Digital audio to run from a server, you want a fast way to do it, I set out to find out just how fast I could do it. I am down to on average 1 CD every 10 seconds. As of writing this I am now close to 7,000 CD’s already ripped!
Never seen so many drives on a single computer! Takes so much power and processing to run all of this, but so worth it in the end!
There are 10 drives per station, the other 10 drives are spares, for I burn through drives at about 1 per every 1000 disks. This is real hard use on them.
And here is what the process looks like in action, I have been at this for over 14 months now! I only do about 300 in one session per week, to keep me from going crazy!
UPDATE October 16th 2022:
All done! Almost 1 year to the day, I have now digitized 7,010 albums! All by hand. Spent over 584 hours of encode time to covert them all to FLAC. Some stats, over 101,819 tracks. That is over 1,095lbs of CD’s If I where to line them up end to end that would be a little over 1/2 of a mile! Better perspective, if I stacked flat into a tower, that tower would be 239 feet tall! or the height of a 24 story building! Total size is 2.25TB
Glad to be done with this project, I feel this photo that shows every album cover in one image puts into perspective how much work this was!