NAS box for storing CD and DVDs
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:54 pm
Hi all
I'm just interested to know what sort of solutions people are using to "rip" their music and video (DVD) collections to a NAS box?
Part One:
I've been using VortexBox to rip CDs but have found that in quite a few cases, the titles of the tracks and even the name of the artist and the album have not been recognised. (And then it's a question of going back to these "Un-named" folders and pulling out the original CD again and renaming all the tracks ) And then using MP-Edit to tag all the specific parts of the file).
I've tried some other software, that runs on Windows, and it's not very satisfactory. I've even installed Daphile (which is a bit like VortexBox in that it is a dedicated OS that takes over the entire PC). But that has limitations and seems a bit clunky.
Some others suggest to use FooBar 2000, and others say Media Player is good enough - but VortexBox rips to both high bit rate MP3 *AND* loss-less FLAC and I really want both types of files. It's just that VorteBox seems to be unreliable with regards to skipping tracks and the file naming and identification process...
which leads on to:
Part Two
I want to now rip my DVD collection to my NAS box...and thus far the only software that might do the job is WinxDVD (which is a free download).
Has anyone tried this or found a better solution? Ideally I want to retain the "special features" of the DVD as some software just converts the films to MP4 (say) and the special features are lost.
So, what say you?
regards
Tim
I'm just interested to know what sort of solutions people are using to "rip" their music and video (DVD) collections to a NAS box?
Part One:
I've been using VortexBox to rip CDs but have found that in quite a few cases, the titles of the tracks and even the name of the artist and the album have not been recognised. (And then it's a question of going back to these "Un-named" folders and pulling out the original CD again and renaming all the tracks ) And then using MP-Edit to tag all the specific parts of the file).
I've tried some other software, that runs on Windows, and it's not very satisfactory. I've even installed Daphile (which is a bit like VortexBox in that it is a dedicated OS that takes over the entire PC). But that has limitations and seems a bit clunky.
Some others suggest to use FooBar 2000, and others say Media Player is good enough - but VortexBox rips to both high bit rate MP3 *AND* loss-less FLAC and I really want both types of files. It's just that VorteBox seems to be unreliable with regards to skipping tracks and the file naming and identification process...
which leads on to:
Part Two
I want to now rip my DVD collection to my NAS box...and thus far the only software that might do the job is WinxDVD (which is a free download).
Has anyone tried this or found a better solution? Ideally I want to retain the "special features" of the DVD as some software just converts the films to MP4 (say) and the special features are lost.
So, what say you?
regards
Tim