Up till a couple of decades
back, it was difficult to get out of the house and not be confronted by the
sight of yards of glistening tape festooned over the hedges. Sometimes you
could see them in the grass, or even trailing out of the trash can.
This happened because
many cassette players used to eject the cassette, but the tape might end up
being caught up in a bit of machinery. The slender, slippery tape would emerge in
a loop with one end snagged deep in the player’s innards.
If the listeners were
technology savvy people, they might be able to tease it free and painstakingly
spool all that tape back into its plastic cassette case, only for it jam again. However, it is more likely that the
exasperated individual would just toss the tape into the trash can.
CDs were considered to
be a boon for such people, but only for a few days. Sure there was no need to
rewind, forward and spool the tape, but CDs, left in the sun would lose their
structural integrity and shape. Apart from being easily breakable, they also
got lost, especially if you wanted to listen to a particular track and could
not find the missing CD.
This is the part where
CD ripping technology comes into the picture. Once you ripped those CDs to any
portable memory stick or card, you will be released from the responsibility of
taking care of your CD albums.
You will be able to
listen to high-quality music hour after hour, as your digital player shuffles
through its massive repertoire of tracks. Apart from that, you will be able to
enjoy a trouble-free experience. Just hook up your music player to your speaker
system, or a pair of Bluetooth headphones, and that’s it.
This way, you will be
able to pack away your cassettes, records, CDs, turntables, amplifiers, wires,
and speakers, once and for all. Never before has great music been so easily
available, and this is all thanks to the rapid advancement of CD ripping
technology. In fact, it is now possible to save both time and space, like never
before.
Till only a few years
back, CD ripping consisted of painstakingly ripping your individual CDs into a
digital music album, one track at a time. Sometimes, the process was
interrupted midway and it led to the corruption of the data. It was so
time-consuming that people felt glad to convert even one CD in a day. And for
those music enthusiasts who had hundreds of CDs, the very idea of creating a
digital music collection, seemed the stuff of science fiction.
Today’s increasingly
more advanced CD ripping technologies effectively ensure that you can rip your
entire collection. And what is more, you can get it transferred to the digital
medium of your choice, within a few days at most.