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The Last Album You Ripped

posted 13 days ago by parkerbot (10679)
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This will date me but whatever.

What was the last album you ripped from CD or other medium?

For me, it was yesterday and it was a The Best of Marty Robbins put out by Readers' Digest in 1993. I wanted to have it in MP3 format. I picked it up at a thrift store for a couple bucks a few years ago. Those Reader Digest sets were pretty neat back in the day and certainly weren't selling for a couple bucks.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.5LPNVbomi6LnkTdIRSX3dQHaGJ%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=a7bc5caf4d36089995c2aab4c7be4bc0504081ec6128cf00a72beab51b5f74f9&ipo=images

Unfortunately it doesn't include one of his best songs, Rainbow, but thankfully I have that on another CD and YouTube provides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KnlCA28HVY

So, what about you?

[–] fourlemons (3577) 13 days ago

I have never ripped an album and at a glance I thought maybe the title of this thread was The Last Fart You Ripped, but I can contribute in one small way.

My firstborn loved dressing up as a cowboy when he was around 4 or 5 years old and he listened to this album on repeat for months. Sounds like you might have some appreciation for it.

https://imgur.com/a/IMaoTcs

[–] parkerbot (10679) 13 days ago

The first memory I have of Marty Robbins was listening to the song Big Iron at my aunt's home.

I will imagine your son grew up to be a cowboy - don't ruin it and tell us he grew up to be an accountant or geologist.

[–] fourlemons (3577) 13 days ago

He listened to Big Iron many, many times.

While he did not grow up to be a cowboy, he did just go to Texas for a work meeting and sent me a picture of him and his wife wearing cowboy boots. They went to a honky tonk that night and listened to country music. There's still some cowboy left in him.

[–] samoanjoes (58554) 13 days ago

2 or 3 years ago.

[–] parkerbot (10679) 13 days ago

It was this album, wasn't it:

https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/600x600/https://images.genius.com/05c1848764b5a2b778f382ef9576ed8e.475x475x1.jpg

[–] samoanjoes (58554) 13 days ago

Nonsense. It was actually this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61405haA8lL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

It's nostalgic for me. We had it on cassette then CD. I went to my parents house and took the CD while I was there and ripped it.

[–] parkerbot (10679) 13 days ago

That's a great album.

[–] fourlemons (3577) 13 days ago

I love Boney M. (What I know of them.)

[–] Daft_Munks (4836) 13 days ago

Same here. have several of their albums on vinyl.

[–] fourlemons (3577) 13 days ago

👍🏼

[–] nyctc7 (44103) 13 days ago

My local used record/cd store moved and is no longer walking distance. I love to check the $1 bin, I rip and have no qualms about throwing it away. Now, I might venture there once every six months. A couple months ago I went and bought ($1 each)

Queen: Greatest Hits
Pat Metheny Group: First Circle
Johnny Cash: Playlist: The Very Best of Johnny Cash
George Thorogood and the Destroyers: Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock
Bob Marley & The Wailers: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers (The Millennium Collection)

When I purchase a download, such as from prestomusic.com or hdtracks.com, I don't call that ripping. I just call it downloading.

I also download music off YouTube. I have a program that can "rip" the audio track from a music video. If an album is in playlist form I can essentially rip the entire album in one go. While not CD quality it still sounds very good to my ears.

[–] parkerbot (10679) 13 days ago

A part of me died inside when you said you have no qualms about throwing away a CD you ripped.

#hoarders4eva

[–] nyctc7 (44103) 13 days ago

I'm talking about the $1 ones...I stopped collecting CDs years ago. I sold them all (300+ at the time) and haven't looked back. All my music is on digital files. My collection is 640 GB which may sound like a lot to some but really there are people who count their collection in the terabytes, especially if you buy a lot of high-rez music.

[–] samoanjoes (58554) 13 days ago

Are you saving them as .flac files? 640GB is insane.

[–] nyctc7 (44103) 13 days ago

Yes, mostly flac. And I have quite a few high-rez flac files. For example, Terrapin Station by Grateful Dead, which I have in 192kHz-24 bit is 1.36 GB all by itself! That's a 35 minute album!

To compare in Kbps,
mp3 file: 128-320 Kbps
CD quality flac file: 600-900 Kbps
192kHz-24 flac file: 5,000-6,000 Kbps

[–] samoanjoes (58554) 13 days ago

That explains why it's 640 GB. I avoid flac files because they're too big. My music collection is something like 25GB.

[–] Daft_Munks (4836) 13 days ago

Don’t remember the last CD I ripped, but it’s all I ever used to do when I bought CD’s.

Had a whole draw full of CD’s that only ever saw the light of day once when I extracted the MP3s off them, still have most of the digitized files on my hard drive.

[–] roger_dat (1678) 13 days ago

A best of credence Clearwater revival. Don't know why I did it with internet widely available at the time.

[–] parkerbot (10679) 12 days ago

That double disk green coloured one? I have that one somewhere.