On 09/06/2018 07:22, RJH wrote:
On 08/06/2018 12:10, John Rumm wrote:
On 07/06/2018 23:43, Bill wrote:
In message , "dennis@home"
writes
I wouldn't be surprised if the Pi can't run the drive at full speed
anyway. It can't run anything else at full speed not even on the 3b+ I
have.
They are nice devices but quick they ain't.

anyway..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ITC22031-5-...sure-suitable-

5-25-IDE/dp/B000YX7EOI/ref=sr_1_3


https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-DRW-24...Q/ref=sr_1_8_m



Thanks for the pointer to that enclosure. That didn't come up in my
searches. I had seen one or two more expensive ones priced from over
£50 upwards, which seemed excessive.

Internal drives are not the problem and I know that many of the 24x
writers will read CD's at up to 48x.

If you can find one of the one of the Optiarc DVD/CD writers, then the
are very quick handling CDs - also particularly so on audio extraction
which lets down many of the drives which are quick reading data CDs.

I have some of the 7240S drives and they will rip an *audio* CD in
about 3 mins using EAC.


About 6 minutes using iTunes and a portable USB2 Samsung drive on a
reasonably quick computer.

Either way, it's going to be a long haul ripping (maybe) 500 CDs. Then
there's hoping they're in decent condition and copy over nicely,
catalogued and gaplessed correctly. And then there's the backup . . .

I found doable using a couple of machines and 4 drives.. run a couple of
instances of EAC on each machine. It keeps you busy enough uncasing,
loading, ripping, onloading and recasing disks etc... I did batches of
about 90 disks at a time.

It helps if your music collection is something for which you can rely on
the catalogue databases to identify and name the tracks etc. Something
that can be less successful on some classical recordings.



--
Cheers,

John.

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