Converting CD's to Digital - Is there a service in BK to do this?

[MrMiddle]

Am looking for a business that converts CD's to digital. Anyone know of such a service in BK?

[MJCM]

CD can carry lots of different things. so what is on the CD ?

If it's an Audio CD , you easily can do that yourself.

[CharlieH]

MOVING TO BANGKOK FORUM for local knowledge

[daveAustin]

CDs are digital

As said, easy to do. Most media players, like Winamp, will let you 'rip' audio CDs and store given songs as MP3s to be played on your computer and devices like iPods etc. If you don't have a CD drive, I'm sure one of the lads down Panthip will do it all for you onto a flash drive.

[VBF]

CDs are digital

As said, easy to do. Most media players, like Winamp, will let you 'rip' audio CDs and store given songs as MP3s to be played on your computer and devices like iPods etc. If you don't have a CD drive, I'm sure one of the lads down Panthip will do it all for you onto a flash drive.

Assuming these are Audio CDs, even Windows Media Player (yuk!!) will do it

If you've got enough of them and don't have a CD drive, buy a USB CD Reader/Writer and do it yourself

Edited December 14, 2014 by VBF

[Anthony5]

Try audiograbber

[NamKAheng]

CDex will do the job.

[ATF]

Apple iTunes is probably the most user friendly but you must decide what format to use. Go to settings before you start ripping.

In my opinion MP3 is trash. For best quality use WMA or FLAC but it will take up a lot more space on your hard drive.

[VBF]

Apple iTunes is probably the most user friendly but you must decide what format to use. Go to settings before you start ripping.

In my opinion MP3 is trash. For best quality use WMA or FLAC but it will take up a lot more space on your hard drive.

Certainly FLAC.... it's open source whereas WMA is Microsoft http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?30978-Pros-and-cons-between-WMA-Lossless-vs-FLAC

Of course in the real world that may not be a concern so my earlier comment about using WMP (Windows Media Player) to rip still applies - it will allow you to rip to MP3 or WMA if you choose.

Having said all that, if you're playing back over PC style speakers using an internal sound card, MP3 at 192 kbps will sound very very good. It's only when you go to headphones or high quality audio that you'll actually HEAR the difference, which is why I use both FLAC and MP3.

Also, many portable players won't handle anything other than MP3 if that's a concern.

Edited December 14, 2014 by VBF

[ATF]

Apple iTunes is probably the most user friendly but you must decide what format to use. Go to settings before you start ripping.

In my opinion MP3 is trash. For best quality use WMA or FLAC but it will take up a lot more space on your hard drive.

Certainly FLAC.... it's open source whereas WMA is Microsoft http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?30978-Pros-and-cons-between-WMA-Lossless-vs-FLAC

Of course in the real world that may not be a concern so my earlier comment about using WMP (Windows Media Player) to rip still applies - it will allow you to rip to MP3 or WMA if you choose.

Having said all that, if you're playing back over PC style speakers using an internal sound card, MP3 at 192 kbps will sound very very good. It's only when you go to headphones or high quality audio that you'll actually HEAR the difference, which is why I use both FLAC and MP3.

Also, many portable players won't handle anything other than MP3 if that's a concern.

Apologies my mistake I meant WAV not WMA. WAV I believe is a true uncompressed copy of the PCM CD file.

[VBF]

Apple iTunes is probably the most user friendly but you must decide what format to use. Go to settings before you start ripping.

In my opinion MP3 is trash. For best quality use WMA or FLAC but it will take up a lot more space on your hard drive.

Certainly FLAC.... it's open source whereas WMA is Microsoft http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?30978-Pros-and-cons-between-WMA-Lossless-vs-FLAC

Of course in the real world that may not be a concern so my earlier comment about using WMP (Windows Media Player) to rip still applies - it will allow you to rip to MP3 or WMA if you choose.

Having said all that, if you're playing back over PC style speakers using an internal sound card, MP3 at 192 kbps will sound very very good. It's only when you go to headphones or high quality audio that you'll actually HEAR the difference, which is why I use both FLAC and MP3.

Also, many portable players won't handle anything other than MP3 if that's a concern.

Apologies my mistake I meant WAV not WMA. WAV I believe is a true uncompressed copy of the PCM CD file.

WMA is a file format used by Microsoft as the above article says.

WAV (Wave file) is the closest you'll get on a PC to the original analogue http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-wav-file.htm and would REALLY eat the space up if you converted from CD to WAV.

I honestly don't think you would gain any audible improvement this way and you may find it very unwieldy to use.

(Wave is great if you want to convert an analogue recording to digital, and edit the file before doing the conversion - example might be a live recording or converting a vinyl LP to digital.)

Having experimented extensively over the years using high end audio kit, I rather stand by my comments above - as I write this I'm listening to an MP3 of Donald Fagen via a professional external sound card and a QUAD Amp/Preamp and some Spendor BBC monitor speakers (VERY old indeed!!!).

Don't forget that your source material is critical - the adage "garbage in, garbage out" does apply especially if you're not going to spend hours re-mastering...which I've been known to do!

My suggestion.... try it....rip the same recordings to FLAC, WAV, MP3, WMA and play the results "blind" (get a friend to set the levels equal and switch between them, so you don't see which is which!)

In years past, I did this with Vinyl > CD > Cassette > Digital in all sorts of odd combinations........ but I'm a sad geek!

Edited December 15, 2014 by VBF

[MrMiddle]

THanks to all for your responses. I didn't expect so many responses. As a newbie, i guess this "forum thing," really works.

I can see i didn't make myself clear enough in what i was asking. I have maybe 1,000 music CD's which i would like to transfer to digital…i guess which means to a thumb drive and decide from there where to load the songs for play.

I have a Mac and iTunes but don't want to take up a lot of space with music. Just want to convert the physical CD's to digital format like a thumb drive. And because i have so many, don't want to spend seemingly endless, mind numbing hours doing it myself. So, was wanting to hire someone or find a local biz that does this sort of thing.

Thanks again for all the responses. YOu guys are terrific !!

[ATF]

THanks to all for your responses. I didn't expect so many responses. As a newbie, i guess this "forum thing," really works.

I can see i didn't make myself clear enough in what i was asking. I have maybe 1,000 music CD's which i would like to transfer to digital…i guess which means to a thumb drive and decide from there where to load the songs for play.

I have a Mac and iTunes but don't want to take up a lot of space with music. Just want to convert the physical CD's to digital format like a thumb drive. And because i have so many, don't want to spend seemingly endless, mind numbing hours doing it myself. So, was wanting to hire someone or find a local biz that does this sort of thing.

Thanks again for all the responses. YOu guys are terrific !!

There's no way I'd trust someone, Thai or otherwise with 1000 cds. Get a decent external hard drive solid state if possible and do it yourself or depending on your budget you may want to invest in a music server.

[roamer]

THanks to all for your responses. I didn't expect so many responses. As a newbie, i guess this "forum thing," really works.

I can see i didn't make myself clear enough in what i was asking. I have maybe 1,000 music CD's which i would like to transfer to digital…i guess which means to a thumb drive and decide from there where to load the songs for play.

I have a Mac and iTunes but don't want to take up a lot of space with music. Just want to convert the physical CD's to digital format like a thumb drive. And because i have so many, don't want to spend seemingly endless, mind numbing hours doing it myself. So, was wanting to hire someone or find a local biz that does this sort of thing.

Thanks again for all the responses. YOu guys are terrific !!

Find yourself a smart kid with a computer who wants to earn some money and get him to rip them, try him out with a few to start with. Surely you must know someone who knows someone ?