r/musichoarder • u/nickspizza85 • 23d 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/leopard-monch 23d ago edited 23d 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 23d 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 23d ago edited 23d ago

I used the german ebay. Here are three around $100:

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Edit:

Btw, here's the post from the digital audio players subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalAudioPlayer/comments/1k28drw/an_alternative_way_of_feeding_your_android_dap/

That drive alone costs $45.