Ripping from multiple CD drives - enqueue rip?
 

I've got a separate CD and a DVD drive and a bunch of CDs I want to rip. Is there a way I can get Winamp setup to first rip from one drive then the other so I can get through this pile of CDs faster and more unattended?

You mean that you want to swap two discs in and out every 10 mins instead of one every 5 mins.

Nothing that I know of.

UJ

I think the concept here is imagine you have 5000 CD's and you lose your collection of MP3's. you have a PC with 2 or 3 CD-Rom drives, and maybe you happen to have a USB drive or 2 handy. You could start up one instance of winamp for every CD drive you have and after 2-3 it would start slowing down the system encoding all of those discs, or you could have winamp queue each drive up. as it finished with one, it could eject it, and all the user would have to do is put a new disc in the drive (or wait until they all finished and replace all of them and winamp would automatically continue. I have a program that can do this with DVD's... would be a nice implementation--even if you could manually queue up more than 1 disc at a time...

Well I've decided to backup some of my cds to .bin/.cue so having multiple cds mounted at once means i can save some time ripping back to whatever format. I don't have multiple physical drives so can't say if this works with more than one real CD, but I don't see why it wouldn't:

Open Audio CD (F: or whatever) in Media Library. Enqueue all tracks in Playlist Editor or drag all tracks to a playlist in Media Library. Enqueue/drag your tracks from other drives (G:, H:, etc...), and que fresto, you can now right click > Sent to > Format Converter.

Using a naming scheme such as "<albumartist> - <album>\## - <artist> - <title>" ensures your tracks are put in their respective folders.