2. Ripping Audio CDs
RipNAS is preconfi ured rippin to FLAC, a popular lossless format. FLAC is the format of
choice for Sonos and Lo itech devices. UPnP devices: view the RipNAS & UPnP (DLNA)
section later on.
Rippin is as simple as insertin an audio CD (silver side facin down) and waitin
approximately 3-4 minutes for rippin to complete, once complete the CD is ejected.
Metadata is retrieved from 4 internet databases: AMG, GD3, MusicBrainz and freedb, usin a
system called PerfectMeta™ where errors from sin le providers are corrected. Should no
metadata be available for a CD (perhaps is obscure, or new), RipNAS will reject the CD
without rippin (can take up to 30 seconds), if the CD is re-inserted a 2nd time it would be
ripped and tracks titled as ‘Unknown Artist #1 – Track 1’ etc.
Ripped audio tracks are automatically saved to the Music share to be streamed by devices
on the network.
2.1.Ejecting a CD
i) Click on the CD EJECT icon on the RipNAS desktop
ii) From WHS Console, click the Eject CD button,
iii) Shut down RipNAS (tap On / Off button) and when restarts RipNAS will auto-eject CD
on startup.
iv) Some models like Z500 have a hole in the front, where you can put a pin into it to eject
the CD
2.2.Secure Ripping
Secure rippin is available on ‘Secure RipNAS Models’ and is enabled by default. When
secure rippin is active tracks with unrecoverable errors are separated into a different folder
(Music\_InSecure) and the disc will appear in the With Errors section (of the Windows Home
Server Console, covered later). If the disc is present in AccurateRip's database, rippin can
proceed in a sin le pass (burst). Discs not in the database will take twice as lon to rip as the
2nd rip verifies the track.
Should a disc have errors, we recommend:
•Give the disc a li ht clean,
•The disc can be re-ripped in RipNAS after a different CD is first ripped (otherwise it is
rejected as a duplicate),
•If the errors can now be corrected (from cleanin ), the tracks with errors will be
removed from the _InSecure folder and stored in the correct [artist]\ folder.
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