Ripping Robot

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  1. bmannz

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    Looking for a usb ripping robot - have seen them in china - cant find them anywhere - these are a simple plastic device that connects via usb to a pc with one source and one destination stack - they drop premade dvd's into the tray for ripping or blanks into the tray for burning. Also known as autoloaders, the cheapest I have seen are 500$US - anyone know of a cheaper option or have an old one for sale???
     
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    Yeah, they're made by datatronics and are sold in the US and europe under the following names:

    Datatronics Minicubis
    MF-Digital Baxter
    Discmakers Pico
    Acronova DupliQ
    Mediatechnics Fusion X
    Stordigital 25
    Ripstation MT1

    And all of the above work great with the alpha/beta/release-candidates of dbpoweramp R13.

    The Discmakers Forte (aka Vinpower's "The Cube" and probably shortly under several other names) is a new one which sells for a bit cheaper at $500. Don't know if there's any ripping software for that yet.

    -brendan
     
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    Note: with respect to DVDs instead of CDs...if you're outside of the US, Ripfactory's mediagrabber dvd ripping software works with some of the above robots, IIRC.

    -brendan
     
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    Thats the one - cheers mate! the datatronics was on show at CES a year or so back. I just saw a RIMAGE RAS6 for $298 on ebay - wonder if that can be put to work for ripping to hdd rather than duplication?
     
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    For CDs, I'm developing code that works with dbpoweramp (see the beta subforum on the dbpoweramp site) for any serial-attached robots. Haven't tried with a RAS6, don't know if it is serial controlled (can do) or scsi/firewire controlled (no can do).

    As far as I am aware, there are only a couple of commercial DVD ripping programs out there that use robots to rip DVDs and none of them are sold to the US market* for legal reasons.

    -brendan

    * other than Kaleidescape's Speed Ripper, of course, since they ended up lucking out in the court case with their licensing situation...
     
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    I meant, of course "Keleidescape Speed Reader", not "Speed Ripper".
     
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    And of course spelled correctly, that would be "Kaleidescape Speed Reader".

    (sorry about the multiple postings, next time I promise I'll take advantage of the Preview system since I can't edit after I post)

    -brendan
     
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