My Double Feature questions

[Yohanes Salomo]

Hey guys, it's October now and since my CDPL order is arriving soon next week, I have a, and yes, you've seen the title, my first, double feature question, so I need some help. (I know this sounds a bit weird, but I needed a helping hand 😅)

1. How do I rip the CD?
2. What services that I need for private uploading for my personal library collection?

In context of these questions:

a) I wanted to rip those CDs by the time they're here, however, right now, I currently don't have any CD drives and scanner for ripping CDs. Also, the scanner for scanning CD cover was quite a bit expensive in Indonesia (my country), whereas the external CD drive cost less. What should I have?
b) I wanted to upload these albums online to certain services for private uploading, like Apple Music (which DoctorDoodle19 used for private uploading), so that I can listen to it anywhere, and especially when I'm on a road trip. Unfortunately, I'm not into Apple Music right now because I don't feel like it. I could be wanting to use it, but I need some alternatives for convenience and the ease of use and access. So what services I should choose?

Any suggestions please let me know! Thanks!

[redwave]

Mega NZ is good for storage and the app means that it's also portable and plays music. As a rule, most cloud services have a free tier with varying amounts of storage but I'd stick with Mega, Google Drive or One Drive as they're well known and easy to use.  Apple Music is quite expensive and probably not essential.

As for ripping CDs I have a cheap external CD/DVD that uses a USB connection. Amazon is a good place to look and expect to pay £15-20. For the ripping software. the free version of Niro CD Ripper is a good option with the ability to add metadata and change the bit rate or file type.

So, in a nutshell it can be done cheaply and easily.

[Yohanes Salomo]

Mega NZ is good for storage and the app means that it's also portable and plays music. As a rule, most cloud services have a free tier with varying amounts of storage but I'd stick with Mega, Google Drive or One Drive as they're well known and easy to use.  Apple Music is quite expensive and probably not essential.

As for ripping CDs I have a cheap external CD/DVD that uses a USB connection. Amazon is a good place to look and expect to pay £15-20. For the ripping software. the free version of Niro CD Ripper is a good option with the ability to add metadata and change the bit rate or file type.

So, in a nutshell it can be done cheaply and easily.

Ah, Thanks for the suggestion, redwave. Hope more might have other answer, but thanks for the answer, friend.

[DoctorDoodle19]

As for uploading services, I prefer Pixeldrain. It's simple to use and its free version is very fair.
and for the CD scanning, I usually just use the "Preview" app on iPhone and take a scan of something, then crop it to a square and make it look like a good CD scan.
Of course, if you don't have iPhone, there are many other apps that can do this function.
I have an Apple CD ripper so the music on the CD goes straight into apple music or finder, whichever I choose, I then put these files in folders and put them on Pixeldrain.
I hope this helps!
- DoctorDoodle19

[Yohanes Salomo]

As for uploading services, I prefer Pixeldrain. It's simple to use and its free version is very fair.
and for the CD scanning, I usually just use the "Preview" app on iPhone and take a scan of something, then crop it to a square and make it look like a good CD scan.
Of course, if you don't have iPhone, there are many other apps that can do this function.
I have an Apple CD ripper so the music on the CD goes straight into apple music or finder, whichever I choose, I then put these files in folders and put them on Pixeldrain.
I hope this helps!
- DoctorDoodle19

Ah, thanks, DoctorDoodle19! This helps a lot.

[redwave]

Pixeldrain is good however, it can be unreliable and slow and I'd not use it as my main cloud storage.

[BlackwatchPlaid]

If you use Windows, Exact Audio Copy is the gold standard for ripping CDs

https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Apple users, the program to use is X Lossless Decoder

https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

Pixeldrain is good because they will let you store as much as you want. Free accounts with most services limit you to a few GB, pixeldrain will let you upload multiple terabytes to a single free account.