Does this work with ease? Who uses this device? My tablet could work like this.
What OS is your tablet? Windows? My guess is it only works with Windows and maybe Mac OS.
Windows 10.
Thanks
Are these pretty good for ripping cds. Been looking for a CD drive to rip my cd collection onto flac files to my MacBook and don’t wanna spend like $80 on the official apple branded drive although I’ve heard these cheap drives don’t tend to last long in use cases like mine
ive been wondering the same… hope someone can chime in. I know most of these off brand cd/dvd drives go for these prices on amazon. From what ive read in the reviews of some of drives on amazon is that as long as youre not ripping CDs like crazy, they should be alright but eventuallu fail at some point. Some dude on amazon reviews said that his drive failed while his disc was still inside and had to disassemble it to get it out. Albeit, these were all reviews of other drives. Im kinda leaning towards the apple disc drive considering I have a mac and a ton of live grateful dead concert Cds I want to rip and convert to flac.
Woot- will this wotrk with Windows 10/11 and Apple OS?7
It should. Latest OSs have built in drivers for CD/DVD.
That’s exactly why I decided to just buy the apple branded one for my MacBook a few days ago since I have a huge collection of limited live Grateful Dead CDs that I plan on selling soon. I also had a $50 apple gift card leftover from Christmas so technically only paid about $30 out of pocket. Don’t have to install any software to use it on a Mac either although you will need a usb-A to USB-C adapter to use on a MacBook which I already had.
Who knows , the apple drive may also be shit as well in the long term for those of us that plan on ripping 100s/1000’s of cds but figured probably easier to deal with apple if something happens passed the return date
If it weren’t for the gift card I had, I most likely would’ve ended up buying one of the LG or Asus branded disc drives as I read good things about them online
Since the aging out of 5.25” drives in modern PCs, I have still kept an assortment of LG and ASUS external USB drives, all of which work reasonably well for the purpose of ripping media for archive. The one truly unusual drive that I keep is an LG 5.25” drive in an external enclosure, specifically for the “problem” discs that don’t agree with the other drives and software. For the most part, they all work decently with modern Win10/11, and with MacOS (haven’t tried it on an M1 or newer machine yet, just because I haven’t had occasion to bother).
Cheers!
If you keep old tech, like computers and consoles, the major fault/reason for them not working is the capacitors. Sad to think that people have scrapped good systems because a few capacitors leaked/bulged… Because they are very easy to replace and some people have even made it a business to provide capacitor kits for the power supplies, MOBO’s, video cards… Solder suckers are a lot cheaper than new stuff and CD DVD burners ran just fine in those systems. I’m just saying.