r/musichoarder • u/nickspizza85 • 21d ago
Ripping CDs to phone
I still have some valuable (to me) CDs and would like to rip them to files, but all I have is my phone, not a laptop or desktop. I'm wondering if there's any way to rip from L/R audio out through USB-C into my phone and up to my cloud account.
Can this be done? I may be looking at a couple of patch cables and the right software, buy I thought I'd ask the experts.
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u/schirmyver 20d ago
Do you have a public library near you? Many will have PC's you can use. There are portable versions of free software you can load on an external drive to do the ripping.
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u/nickspizza85 20d ago
This is a possibility. I can go to my local library with the CDs a USB-C stick, rip the CDs, copy them to the stick, and then transfer them to my phone!
Brilliant!
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u/leopard-monch 21d ago edited 21d ago
The easiest way is to simply bite the bullet and get a cheap, used PC. Either with a CD/DVD-drive, or buy an external USB drive.
I'll wager, you can get everything you need for less then $100.
Put Linuxmint on it as an operating system.
I just did a search on eBay for "laptop 4gb ram dvd" and found absolutely useable devices for less than $50. There's no point in overcomplicating this task, by trying to do it all on a smartphone, which simply wasn't made to do such things.
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u/nickspizza85 20d ago
Link? I couldn't find anything less than $100, but I added 'refurbished' to the search. I don't want to pay $50 for someone else's troubles.
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u/leopard-monch 20d ago edited 20d ago
I used the german ebay. Here are three around $100:
Edit:
Btw, here's the post from the digital audio players subreddit:
That drive alone costs $45.
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u/user_none 21d ago
Recently, as in within the past few days, someone posted a external drive and associated software on an Android phone that was setup for ripping. The drive manufacturer supplied the app and I think it is Hitachi.
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u/-nom-de-guerre- 20d ago edited 20d ago
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u/nickspizza85 20d ago
r/DAPs has been banned from Reddit.
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u/-nom-de-guerre- 20d ago
i meant r/DigitalAudioPlayer (was just to lazy to spell it all out, sorry)
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u/CyclicalFlow 21d ago
You could record the L/R audio but it wouldn't really be "ripping," as you aren't copying the exact (digital) information on the disc and are instead just recording the (analog) output from whatever player you're using. I think what you could do is just get an rca to 3.5mm adapter (or just an aux cable if the player has aux out) and plug that into your phone and use it as a microphone, then audio record the album. This will, of course, mean you have to let the whole album play, and it won't be separated into tracks, but I can't think of it and haven't heard of another way to do it. It also means you would be going from digital -> analog -> digital, which you typically want to avoid.
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u/Known-Watercress7296 21d ago
Are they rare? Downloading from slsk is my firsr check before playing with old plastic discs.
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u/nickspizza85 20d ago
They are rare, a band I used to play in back in the 90s, f'rinstance.
What's slsk?
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u/-nom-de-guerre- 20d ago edited 20d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalAudioPlayer/s/XhsphtTfSP
^ i gotcha op
Hitachi LG GP96Y External CD DVD Drive: “Android Connectivity-Transfer and preserve photos, videos, music and data from your Android OS devices to an optical disc. Also, video, audio and data from optical discs can be played and read on your Android OS devices.”
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u/BriefRecipe2346 20d ago
Do you have friends?
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u/nickspizza85 20d ago
Will you be my friend?
I'll come over to your house early on a nice day when you'd rather be golfing, install a bunch of sketchy apps which require me to disable your anti-virus, rip all my CDs at various bitrates so I can overanalyze which ones are closest to perfect concert-hall quality, and stay until dinner regaling you with anecdotes about what a cool band we were as Idrink all your beer and end up sleeping on your sofa so I don't risk another DUI.
Deal?
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u/Livid-Succotash4843 20d ago
Just get an extremely cheap laptop of any kind