So a friend of mine in the DJ industry acquired a competing DJ company in his area and is now in possession of at least 15,000 - 20,000 CDs in their collection. He has already started an ALAC rip of ...

While many people get music from digital sources—the iTunes Store, eMusic, Amazon.com and other on-line vendors—a lot of us still buy CDs. In addition, many people have never gotten around to ripping ...

Each time I look at a new MP3 player, I feel this urge to reboot my music collection—to sacrifice a weekend or two and re-rip all my CDs onto one system so I have everything in a consistent format.

It's 2026, and CDs are anything but dead. No, really — compact discs are the best bang for your buck medium for starting a physical music collection. Admittedly, I'm a vinyl head, but you won't beat ...

Two Washington-based companies have joined forces to offer a one-stop shop for iPod neophytes. MyerEmco AudioVideo is offering services from Riptopia — a company that specializes in “ripping” or ...

If you use an iPod or iTunes, you're familiar with the process of ripping songs from CD to convert them from their uncompressed audio file format, AIFF, to a compressed file, usually MP3 or AAC. The ...