Ripping CD Collection to Lossless Audio on Mac using iTunes
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Excellent, straight through, clean, informative.
Thank you!
So I’ve recently found my parents cd collection of Regional Mexican music and I’ve been doing this for awhile now too. What I would do after ripping is convert the alac to flac since it’s more acceptable in many more devices, make a digital copy onto a sd card as a backup, make another copy on cd-r as another backup, and then transfer lots of the music to a flash modded iPod for daily use. For some reason I like doing this stuff. Anyways, thanks for this awesome and informative video!
Oh boy... How I love ripping CDs!
Brilliant! Thanks Rick
Very welcome.
Exactly what I have spent the last 5 hours trying to figure out and before I went and messed things up by doing it wrong or buying unnecessary software. I have a 2015 MacBook Pro and a Asustor AS5304T NAS with Plex Media Server installed. I want to rip all my CDs and not use iTunes as my player or media organizer. Thank you Rick!
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this is exactly what i was looking for!
Rick, I know this was 4 years ago, but would love a follow up video showing how to then incorporate the new lossless music into Apple Music for streaming purposes. I don’t gave a NAS (yet), so I’d be going the external SSd route. When I think I get it, I realize I really don’t. 4 years later and I’m not sure if you’ll even see this…anyway, thanks, enjoying and subscribed to your channel.
Thank for the video. I am a little late to view it, but better late than never :). I have two questions, can you create a folder and have it on your Mac so it more readily accessible, and is there way to add a new folder/category in iTunes..now Apple Music under the library tab called "lossless".
Rick, Very informative and well demonstrated video! Thanks!
My question is, at the end you deleted the lossless folder then when iTunes rebooted, it asked where the folder was and you said “I’ll just point it to the old folder”. What old folder? The one that is now on the NAS?
The end screen was covering it. I fixed it. I choose the original iTunes library which was in the Music folder. It was named "iTunes".
Very informative, and then... Taylor Swift??? Dear god! 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for this vid, Rick. Exactly what I have been looking for. Just looking into ripping my cd collection to put on my Synology 418 Play. I have 2 bays with 8TB drives, currently filling up with Photos, RUclips videos and some Audio, but am thinking of putting two more drives in the two empty ports - either two more 8TB or something larger.
Using your method can I just rip the cds in iTunes (now Music?) in Lossless format and transfer them straight to the shared Audio folder on the NAS?
Right now I'm connecting iPads to the Gas using Synology DS software and it seems to be working great for photo, audio and video, but have also been looking at Plex as an option, just in case I want to start ripping some of my videos too.
Suggestions?
I am able to listen to lossless music on my NAS from the DS Audio app. You install the Audio Station app on the NAS. I think it has a setting on the app to transcode to mp3, like if you download the music to your phone with the app. I haven't done much with Plex but I'm guessing it works with lossless audio. I'm not sure how comfortable you are with the command line but I have a video on converting a lossess audio library to aac: ruclips.net/video/8ecH3THq38U/видео.html I have done this to copy all of my music to an SD card for my car stereo.
@@Rickmakes thanks Rick. Currently have Audio Station on my Nas and use DS audio on my mobile devices to listen. Pretty sure the lossless files will save time for me and space on the NAS. I’m ok with command line - enough to know to be very careful about input! May give it a go when I need to be mobile with the music! Thanks again.
Thanks for the video, I am ripping with two external Apple Superdrives but they read the CDs but rip one at a time not concurrently , so I'm I doing something wrong? I have 2000 CDs to rip and my thinking was to connect 4 CD Readers to speed up but Music only rips one at a time, any ideas? I am running a MacBook Pro 14" with Monterey.
Excellent. Very clearly presented. The only place I got hung up was when you moved the files you had created to something you referred to as a NAS file which was titled DS_Share on your home screen. What is this and where did it come from?
Also, have you done the followup video you refer to about converting the collection to mp3s? If so, could you supply the link? Thank you.
DS_Share is a server I have at my house where I story my music. You can store them on a computer or an external drive. I have a video on converting them to mp3. ruclips.net/video/lUjHA9Pr3q8/видео.html I does requires working on the command line. This is a similar video for aac format. ruclips.net/video/GdcOp9t0ZhQ/видео.html
@@Rickmakes Thank you for this information. I appreciate it.
This was really helpful, thanks a lot! Can you choose WAV instead Apple lossles and still good? what is the file extension when you choose Apple lossles?
You can choose WAV instead of Apple Lossless. They are the exact same quality except Apple Lossless produces a smaller file size. Apple Lossless uses m4a extension.
@GREAT OASIS WAV, Apple Lossless and FLAC are all considered "lossless". This means they give the exact same quality as the original CD. WAV is uncompressed and has large files. Apple Lossless and FLAC produces files about half the size of WAV. Either one is a better choice than WAV. It is best to use whatever is compatible with the equipment you will be using to play the files.
@Great Less RickMakes is right. wav files are almost always larger. but I also would add that they are more universally accepted. for example, I use a lot of music production and DJ software. almost none of it accepts FLAC or AAC or m4a (except Apple software). but wav and mp3 is nearly always accepted
Hi could you share the name exact exact model of the Samsung optical drive you are using - the links are not going there, thanks!
TSST SE-208GB/RSBD
Thanks!@@Rickmakes
It’s better if you import to AIFF instead of ALAC cause ALAC is a compressed file and AIFF is not
ALAC is "lossless" compression. It give you the exact same output as AIFF but doesn't require as much storage space. A similar format is FLAC. ALAC and FLAC are both good for archival music storage.
hi,
can the losless file be stored on my Iphone ?
Thanksss
Hi Rick. If I follow this process and rip my CD's to a hard drive, will they play back on a Window's PC, or only if connected to my Mac? Thanks.
You can install VLC Player which can playback pretty much any format on Mac or PC.
@@Rickmakes Is VLC up to the same hi-res audio standard?
Saw the Alice in Chains and thought I was looking at my Library for a second :)
One of my favorite bands from that era. They are timeless.
@@Rickmakes Definitely. I was obsessing over Nirvana as a kid back then and now I have no idea how I never explored AIC until now.
I’m a music producer, I’m taking my stuff seriously, and I mix and master my own music, and I’m looking for lossless files to use as reference, I managed to get a few but I missing Hey soul sister by Train. Do you have that one by chance? If you do, would you be willing to share it with me for that purpose? Thanks!
Sorry, can't help you on that one.
Rick, thank you, cristal clear. But with Apple's new Music app I can't seem to create a new Library Can you help please ?
Close the Music app. Then open it while holding down the option key. This will allow you to create a library or switch libraries.
I've heard there's better programs to use to rip CDs to lossless. What you are doing is a method that I have been using only I've been ripping to aiff.
There might be. I've had pretty good luck with iTunes. You might want to convert the aiff to ALAC (Apple Lossless) or FLAC to save space.
how is yours ripping so fast and why is it taking me about 15 minutes to rip a cd?
Did you have encoding turned on? That would slow things down. Also if you go to preferences menu > General > Import Settings... there is an option called "Use error correction when reading Audio CDs". I had that off. It can slow things down when on. If you suspect your optical drive is slow, you can get a USB one on Amazon for pretty cheap. iTunes can use multiple optical drives so you can use the internal and a USB one at the same time.
@@Rickmakes thanks for the reply. just an update. i have error correction off so thats not it. im not sure about this encoding business. it says mp3, lossless, wav, ect i tried all of them and they are all painfully slow. i am using a external LG disc drive do you think that may have something to with it?
Flerg3 don't sweat the speed, you need to be concerned about quality. You want to rip lossless so apple lossless or aiff
Are CDs lossless music?
Yes. CDs are uncompressed lossless. Apple Lossless and FLAC are compressed lossless. They contain the same data and quality.
Thank you 🙏
Thank you, cuz I have no Clue.
No problem!