Music Ripping Robots !!!
As you may have heard, KCRW is undergoing a massive campaign to modernize and restore our music library. Part of that effort is the digitization of our entire music collection. The music library contains over 60,000 recordings on CDs and vinyl. We're also going to be restoring and archiving our live performance collection which goes back over 20 years, and is currently stored on rapidly deteriorating reel to reel and DAT tapes.
Just the CD digitizing part alone is expected to last several weeks during which time a group of MUSIC RIPPING ROBOTS has taken up residency in our office.
Click on the picture to see one of the robots hard at work:
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I'm the designer of the robot system that KCRW is using.
We can rip 4 CDs at a time and it averages 4-7 mins a CD.
All CD information is downloaded from All Media Guide (allmusic.com) or FreeDB.org. Technical: the CD's unique identifier is a concatenation of all the tracks’ length which is submitted to the database and identified.
KCRW hired Moondog Digital to convert their 40,000 CDs for their 'Save The Music Library' campaign (http://www.kcrw.com/music/save-the-music-library).