The RipFactory

Making Digital Music Simple

The MetaData - the information about a song, album and artist as contained within an audio file, has become key to the future of digital music.

 

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 Digital Music Facts & Figures

 

• Single track downloads are estimated to total 795 million in 2006, up 89 % on 2005
• There are nearly 500 online music services available in over 40 countries worldwide
• Digital classical music was the fastest-growing music genre, growing by 23 %
• Portable music players help drive digital music consumption
• Leading global HiFi manufacturers now are ensuring 'Digital Music Library' integration into their products

Why go Digital and what does it all mean?

You can't put all your CDs in your pocket, but you can fit 1000’s of your songs on an MP3 player. Plug it into your car stereo, HiFi system, powered speakers or just put the headphones on. This is what Digital Music is all about!

How does The RipFactory makes this possible?

The RipFactory turns your entire CD collection into your own personal Digital Music Library. We return your Digital Music Library on your choice of drive, either an external hard drive, NAS drive and/or DVD.

Why use The RipFactory for your media conversion?

It's a simple equation really – we are here to ensure you can receive the maximum enjoyment that your Digital Music Player can bring to your lifestyle – whether it is a portable music player like the Apple iPod or a Multi-Room Digital Music System like SONOS.  We have the solution to suit.

With The Ripfactory’s audio conversion service, you benefit from our experience in digital audio encoding without the hassle.

What is the Metadata?

The MetaData is information about a song, album and artist. The MetaData is contained within an audio file and has become the key to the future of digital music.

Metadata has been traditionally used as a means to navigate a music collection by album, artist, composer or genre.

As the digital music phenomenon spreads, metadata is becoming increasingly important. It adds a whole new dimension to your music experience by means of visual information such as artist, title, genre, album artwork and discography's. Metadata can be harnessed as a powerful tool to help you build playlists, and build additional profile information for such areas as related artists and alternate titles.

An issue with metadata historically has been its lack of consistency. For example composers such as Bach presented as 'Johann Sebastian Bach', 'J.S Bach' and 'Bach'. Box sets can be numbered non-sequentially, artists can be catalogued incorrectly and genres can be highly inaccurate.

The RipFactory MetaData engine ensures:

• Consistent disc numbering - Disk 1, Disk 2, or CD 1, CD 2.
• Accurate classical artist names.
• Consistent capitalisation - your Digital Music Library will have correct capitalisation throughout.
• No CD naming duplication - Greatest Hits, Best Of will be named and catalogued under the appropriate artist.

Thinking about ripping your music collection?

Don't waste your time, we are the experts, so use us to 'rip'.  At approx 10 minutes per CD (6 CD’s an hour), it is a enormous job for you to undertake, not forgetting to ensure the MetaData is correct as well.

Using the services of The RipFactory, this entire conversion takes you less than fifteen minutes. Save yourself the hassle and get it right the first time. Let us 'rip' for you.

Some of the benefits of a Digital Music Library