I would like to know if there is a service that will convert your
regular old fashioned compact discs into mp3 files for you. When I say
old fasioned-- I mean regular music compact discs that have been
around for years; the kind one buys in a music store. I want a service
that converts these CD's into new CD's that have mp3 files on them
that is the music from the CD provided. To re-phrase, a service that
you give them your CD's, in return they gve you new cds with mp3 files
on them that is all the music that you provided to them with your 'old
style' CD's. Very important note: I am not looking for equipment to do
this. I am well aware of products that do this. Please do not answer
this question with products that do this. The answer I am looking for
is a commercial service that does this task for you.  In other words--
you mail them 150 CD's, they mail you back your CD's and new CD's with
the music converted to mp3 files. I would like to know if this type of
commerial service exists anywhere, at any price. If it does exists,
please cite several places where this service is offered.

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 25 Apr 2004 20:02 PDT

Hello Puravida77,

I located one service, based in New York that converts your CDs into
MP3 files for about a dollar a CD, in just a few days.

Here?s how it works: box up your CDs (they supply the box and  packing
material), send them , and a few days later you will receive data DVDs
with your entire music collection in CD-quality sound organized by
artist and album, along with your CDs.

You can also pay extra for all your music to be loaded onto a new
external hard drive.


Would this service be of your interest?

Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by puravida77-ga on 26 Apr 2004 06:32 PDT

Bobbie7, that is exactly what I am looking for. Please let me know
whetehr there are other like it (competitors). I have **Hundreds** of
CDs to convert-- and price is an issue at that quanitity. So are there
other servcies like the one you found? Good work so far !!
Thanks!
Note to Scarbonie; I already have equipment and software to do this
conversion. I am only interested in a service because the time
investment to do this myself  would be enormous.  In other words "the
outsourcing" of the work is the whole point :->

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 26 Apr 2004 06:37 PDT

Hello again Puravida77,

As I mentioned previously, I was only able to locate one service.

Here are the prices for volume ordering.

600.............................$570
700.............................$665
800.............................$760
900.............................$855
1000............................$950
1100............................$1045
1200............................$1140
1300............................$1235
1400............................$1330
 
   
1500.............................$1425
1600.............................$1520
1700.............................$1615
1800.............................$1710
1900.............................$1805
2000.............................$1900
2100.............................$1995
2200.............................$2090
2300.............................$2185
 
   
2400.............................$2280
2500.............................$2375
2600.............................$2470
2700.............................$2565
2800.............................$2660
2900.............................$2755
3000.............................$2850
3100.............................$2945
3200.............................$3040
 
3300.............................$3135
3400.............................$3230
3500.............................$3325
3600.............................$3420
3700.............................$3515
3800.............................$3610
3900.............................$3705
4000.............................$3800
 


Thanks,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by puravida77-ga on 26 Apr 2004 07:26 PDT

Okay. That's good. What is the service? The name, the website?
Thanks!

RipDigital is the online service that converts your CD collection into
an MP3 library

Website: http://www.ripdigital.com/index.htm


Pay Service Turns CDs into MP3s

?RipDigital is another sign that music is steadily going digital...
For about a dollar a disc, the company converts entire CD collections
to MP3 files, all nicely organized by artist and album. Instead of
downloading MP3s from file-trading networks and ripping them to CDs,
customers are more interested in converting their CD archives into
MP3s.?
http://www.ripdigital.com/press.htm


Price list
http://www.ripdigital.com/index.htm


Order here
http://www.ripdigital.com/order.htm


Large volume orders
http://www.ripdigital.com/order_big.htm


Phone: 877-759-3914 
Fax: 877-759-3914 
Mail: 150 West 22nd Street
5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
http://www.ripdigital.com/about.htm



Sales Inquiries
http://www.ripdigital.com/inquiries_sales.htm



Description of this service rom Beststuff.com:

?The answer to every digital music fan?s burning question ? how to
turn their entire CD collection into digital music files without
wasting endless hours ? is here. Manhattan-based RipDigital simplifies
the switch to digital music with a service that converts your CDs into
MP3 files for about a dollar a CD, in just a few days. Here?s how it
works: box up your CDs (RipDigital supplies the box, packing materials
and pre-paid shipping label with insurance for $10/CD), send them to
RipDigital, and a few days later you will receive data DVDs with your
entire music collection in CD-quality sound organized by artist and
album, along with your CDs. Customers can also receive their music
pre-loaded on a portable hard drive sold directly by the company.?

Beststuff.com
http://www.beststuff.com/articles/6325/



?For a price, you can hire a service to do the grunt work for you.
RipDigital will mail a spindle that you load with CD's, which you ship
back. In about a week, you'll get your CD's back, plus one or more
discs that contain all of your music in MP3. It costs a little more
than one dollar per CD. You can also pay extra for all your music to
be loaded onto a new external hard drive.?

Minnesota Public Radio: March 2004
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2004/03/15.shtml


Search criteria:
CD to MP3 service
CD?s to MP3 service


I hope you find this helpful! 


Best regards,
Bobbie7

Fine answer

Puravida77,

While it may be an option to pursue paying someone for this service,
using your computer, you can do the same process for absolutely no
money whatsoever. This is barring of course the electric bill.
Download Winamp 5+ located here: www.winamp.com . This program comes
with a rather extensive help file regarding the ripping of CD sound to
.mp3 files. Although it is a moderately involved practice, with a
little time, you can produce quality .mp3 files. I would reccomend
ripping at a rate of at leat 160 Kbps in joint stereo, to preserve
decent sound quality.

Best of luck to you,

Scarbonie

Very interesting!

Many thanks to all.

Bryan

On the Macintosh side, iTunes will rip CDs and access the CDDB, thus
giving you titles, artists and other info for each CD. Now that Apple
is releasing some Macintosh applications cross-platform, you can get
iTunes for Windows. The download site is:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and the informational site is:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/ .

This should help you...It would take a weekend or two with Winamp or
iTunes, both of which are excellent. Just be ready to swap CDs every 5
minutes.

Here's another service that will turn your CDs into an MP3 library:

"Get Digital? offers a fast, affordable, and easy-to-use method for
converting large personal CD collections to MP3s or other digital
audio files that can be used by today?s home, portable, and automotive
audio players including MP3 jukebox products and personal computers.

Get Digital's patent pending high-speed transfer service can convert
your collection to MP3s in a few hours and then return your collection
the next day on the media of your choice."

http://www.get-digital.net

Thanks so much for your commentary, Scarbonie--you were a lot of help
on this one!  The next time I see a question begging an uninformed
version of the obvious response, as specifically and repeatedly
discouraged by the author, I hope to see another of your insightful
followups at the end of the thread.

I found this which I thought might be of interest, another company
that has recently (June 17 2004) started offering a similar service:

Here's a press release
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/6/prweb134477.htm

Here's the company website
http://www.pacificrip.com/