Importing cds
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As a refugee from win 10 and consequently iTunes, I have the latest iteration of Linux mint installed on my laptop as a tryout before installing it on my big pc, fundamental to this change is the need for a music server and player, I have a small collection of cds (300) predominantly classic choral all music which I have sung in and is close to my heart and is at present loaded into iTunes in a win 10 environment. I have done some research and came across clementines which I have tried, l managed to load some of my cds successfully, others all of the associated metadata was missing including track names, the rest I could put in manual but still quite a task. Further research suggested strawberry would be a more modern and better option. I found strawberry in the mint software library and it installed properly as far as I can tell and mint was bang up to date, so all should be good or so I thought. No matter what I try I don’t seem to be able to load my cds into strawberry as the new base for my music interests. Given the apparent lack of a detailed use guide I also can’t seem to get to grips with what I’ve done wrong , as this seems to me to be a basic function of any music repository/player.
I am now not only a refugee from win 10 but a very frustrated one, there are potentially 400 million people like me with perfectly adequate pcs who potentially are going to be left out in the cold by Microsoft, even if 10% go the Linux way that is a massive no of user who may help solve your money issues
Regards nigel
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@itunes-refuge WARNING: This will be a very unsatisfactory answer.
I'm an Apple/iTunes refugee now on Linux, where I found Strawberry. I got my music into Strawberry but I think I actually used another app called Rhythm Box. Strawberry wouldn't recognize my Apple Superdrive. I've since started ripping and syncing on my work macbook because I can't sync my iphone to Linux.
I told you it was an unsatisfactory answer.
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@mrbluebudo yes I tried something similar using Rythmbox unquestionably mor pain than gain, what troubles me clearly there are loads of technically ably folk on this site, and know one has popped up and said can’t be done from cds, reading from a number of sources I’m beginning to get the distinct impression that strawberry doesn’t have a cd ripper, which really surprises me as it’s pr says it’s clearly aimed at the classical end of the market which to me suggests it should be complete work based not song based ?. Common you guys put me out of my misery!!!!.