CD Ripping by Rip-fast?

Several major publications - Rough Guide, The Sunday Times & The Daily Telegraph - have been very kind in recommending our CD ripping service podServe. The Telegraph have been kind enough to give us a mention again today on the Telegraph website.

I was interested to see another CD ripping service mentioned, by the name of Rip-fast. Now I'm not sure who the Telegraph had in mind but I think Rip-fast is a body building supplement, seemingly favoured by Arnie himself.

If you're looking for CD ripping service Rip-fast might I suggest you check us out first? We are at www.podserve.co.uk

Sonos Sweepstakes

Fancy winning a new Sonos system? Yes, me too. You can, just visit Sonos on Facebook and follow the sweepstake links.

Then get podServe to convert your CDs for your new music system.

Album Art

One of the most popular enhancements to our CD ripping service was including album art. I don't mind admitting at first I was sceptical but today ripping CDs without adding album art is unthinkable. Well, yesterday I thought the unthinkable.

One of the best decisions I made was to go with iAlbum Art as the software to embed album art in our clients music. It works like a dream and Mike's tech support has been great. Something I was taking for granted when we upgraded our version of iTunes. I don't know if the upgrade was coincidental and maybe Amazon made a change at their end but horror, iAlbum Art just stopped working. Program opened fine, seemed to run but resolutely no little pictures were added. Small panic, we've got a couple of thousand CDs in process right now.

Thankfully the fix was simple, iAlbum Art 2.1 plays nicely with iTunes 10 and co-operates with Amazon. If anything it runs better, with better art and a snappier response, I think. We breath a sigh of relief and stick more CDs into the computers.

drop.io

One of the best things I've found on the web is drop.io - an incredibly simple and effective file sharing service. So many time it's helped us deliver files to clients.

But no longer, drop.io is no more. They've sold ought to Facebook. Well done them, and thanks for what you've given us over the years.

iTunes Music Store Receipt Email

If you receive an email seeming to be from iTunes Music Store, with the header including a receipt number, some dodgy maths in the "bill" - whatever you do, DO NOT click on either of the hyperlinks in the body text.

I did, and spent the next couple of hours regretting it. More on the podServe blog.

Thanks to AVG Anti-virus and Spybot Search & Destroy for a happy ending.

Wow - Gracenote - 200 billion ripped CDs.

Gracenote has now processed its 200 billionth query, and received its one billionth metadata submission, according to data shared Thursday morning by the company.

Apple Synch Notifier Exe is Missing - Solved

Call from a CD ripping client with a problem on their PC (Vista Business). This is the error message -

Apple synch notifier exe is missing

Core file missing.

Did some digging, found a solution - go to Control Panel and you will probably see an entry for Mobile Me. Delete that, seems to solve the issue.

iTunes How To Videos

OK, we're going to blow our own trumpet here. We're a CD ripping company and we want you to get the best out of your music experience. We want happy clients.

So we've produced a set of How to ... videos covering topics such as how to load the music data files we supply, how to create smart playlists, how to move your iTunes music library ... and more.

Take a look at the videos. Hope you like them, if you'd like to see more let us know.

Low Cost CD Ripping

We rip CDs for clients, but mainly in the London / M25 region. Over the years we've had people express a demand for our services from outside our usual collection area.

So we set up a mail based CD ripping service called MP3 by Mail. Hard to believe we're coming up to four years old. But yes, we're still here, ripping CDs for iPod owners, for Sonos lovers and a whole raft of people who simply want to make their music portable. Check out our (other) site.

Apple TV

Just to update an earlier post - the installation with Apple TV running with Windows 7 (which previously stubbornly refused to sync) - has suddenly sprung into life and happily syncing music and photos.