Greetings! This is my first post here and I hope I will be able to contribute to this community.
My question is this - I'm about 1,400 discs into ripping my cd library into iTunes in ALAC format using my 20" iMac and a Drobo connected via firewire...I've always been hesitant to listen to music in my iTunes library while ripping cds into iTunes - is this a problem or can I do this without affecting the ripping of the cd?
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to listen to the music that I'm currently ripping. I'm listening to other files in the library while iTunes imports a different album.
Because of my hesitation I've typically listened to other cds via a traditional cd-player while I import albums. It would be much nicer to use that time to explore the albums already imported.
I'd appreciate it if anyone that has a definitive answer to this can chime in. Thank you!
Also - by way of introduction, I typically listen to headphones. I usually use the optical out from my iMac into either a DacMagic or my Cambridge 840C cd-player, run the outputs into either my SPL Auditor or Decware CSP2+ headphone amp, and then into either Denon AH-D7000, Senn HD650, Grado RS1i or 325is headphones. My speaker based rig is a pair of Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 fed by a Naim Nait XS integrated. I will look forward to learning more about computer audio from this crowd!