Backing up CD library

[Doomhunter]

Personally I am sticking with iTunes as my ripping and organization program. iPods can always be fixed if they break down, besides, my first iPod, the classic, is still doing fine after about twenty years. Plus I have a smaller iPod for travel and another larger iPod in case my classic ever breaks down and can’t be repaired. There are repair shops all over the place. Typically ripping into Apple Lossless would completely maintain the file, but ripping to mp3 would mean less storage space required and you may not notice the difference anyhow. Streaming is no good for me as I couldn’t edit songs and iTunes makes album creating / organization so much easier

[bigkid43]

I went with a Bluesound Vault 2i and back it up with an external drive. All files are FLAC. I have other Bluesound products so I can listen anywhere in the house.
Just be aware that CD's don't always have the correct information, e.g. album art, track order, and you may spend some time fixing things after ripping everything. I use MP3tag.

https://www.bluesound.com/products/vault/

[stonesfan129]

I did all mine a few years back with a program called dBpoweramp CD Ripper. I added in my own artwork from Album Art Exchange and the Ben Dodson iTunes Artwork database, but it's nice because it goes through, tags everything for you (pulls metadata from multiple sources), and is faster than EAC. It costs $38 but I think that is for a lifetime license. My parents also used it on their Mac to rip all of their CDs after their 300-disc Sony CD changer died a couple years back. I liked that setup was far easier than EAC and it does a burst pass first so doesn't take as long.