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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 23 for Windows => Topic started by: rec head on October 15, 2017, 01:01:53 pm

Title: Think about moving my MC server to a new PC - Can I rip MUSIC CD's on a Client?
Post by: rec head on October 15, 2017, 01:01:53 pm

The title says pretty much says it. I searched the Wiki and only came across Vinyl ripping.

I have long been annoyed by having to do a lot of library management from my server which is also my HTPC. The HTPC has a crappy handheld keyboard and poor ergonomics for anything besides sitting back and enjoying music and movies. So it just popped into my head that now that everything is moved from internal discs in the HTPC to the NAS why not just make my main PC in the office the server? The only thing I can think of is that the HTPC has the optical drive and the office PC is NUC. Ripping Blurays doesn't matter because I use MakeMKV but I use MC for ripping music.

So the question is can I use a client to rip music?

Title: Re: Think about moving my MC server to a new PC - Can I rip MUSIC CD's on a Client?
Post by: DJLegba on October 15, 2017, 01:48:51 pm

As far as I know you have to rip to a local library. So on the client, switch to the local library, rip, then move the files to the location the server watches for auto import. I could be wrong, but that's how I did it when I used MC to rip CDs.

Title: Re: Think about moving my MC server to a new PC - Can I rip MUSIC CD's on a Client?
Post by: rec head on October 16, 2017, 08:43:38 am

So Using the Client I could just rip the Cds to a directory that the Server monitors and that would be all it would take?

Title: Re: Think about moving my MC server to a new PC - Can I rip MUSIC CD's on a Client?
Post by: dtc on October 16, 2017, 09:06:57 am

Quote from: rec head on October 16, 2017, 08:43:38 am

So Using the Client I could just rip the Cds to a directory that the Server monitors and that would be all it would take?

Yes. The client does not have access to the optical reader on the server through MC. You really need a optical drive attached to the client and then you use a local version of MC to do the ripping. And put the files in a folder that the server monitors.

Title: Re: Think about moving my MC server to a new PC - Can I rip MUSIC CD's on a Client?
Post by: DJLegba on October 16, 2017, 09:43:52 am

I found that ripping to a network drive was very slow. Also, the auto-import process would start finding files before the rip was complete. It just worked a lot better in my case to rip to a local drive first, and then copy or move through the network.

Title: Re: Think about moving my MC server to a new PC - Can I rip MUSIC CD's on a Client?
Post by: rec head on October 16, 2017, 10:13:57 am

Quote from: DJLegba on October 16, 2017, 09:43:52 am

I found that ripping to a network drive was very slow. Also, the auto-import process would start finding files before the rip was complete. It just worked a lot better in my case to rip to a local drive first, and then copy or move through the network.

OK, I was wondering why you were moving them.

Thanks.