January 2009: ReadyToPlay was our hands-down favorite among the services we tested. The resulting files sounded great, but what gave ReadyToPlay the edge was their thorough metadata. Read the Article

March 2009: An ex-computer sales executive has become one of the top people in the ripping trade because of the deluxe way he "grooms" and organizes the information from thousands of CDs for picky collectors. Read the Article

Audioholics is "Pursuing the Truth in Audio & Video"
...and they found us. Read the Review

2009: ReadyToPlay maintains a backup of their clients’ music on a Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 storage server . “Seagate storage plays a huge role in my business, because of the redundancy, security and peace of mind it offers me.” Read the Article

"My personal preference would be for ReadyToPlay. The company seemed just a bit more professional in its approach."

"Very accommodating."

"[ReadyToPlay has] done the heavy lifting, so now I get to sit back and enjoy the music."

"For custom installers this is a simple process that will save you time and money. You may have had to deal with your clients' music libraries in the past - now you don't. Life is good. For consumers, Ready To Play is a tremendous time saver and a great way for those looking to enjoy their music collections in a whole new (perhaps portable) way to save tons of time." Read the article.

What a Rip! A New Spin On Pay to Play - Ready to Play: "...the only service to offer convenient in-store drop-off service, through Cambridge Soundworks retail shops, and has close ties to the leading media server companies like Escient...overall, this is the service we'd pick for its balance of price and performance, especially if we were stocking a media server and needed handholding."

"ReadyToPlay isn’t limited to the iPod. It will convert music CDs into a variety of popular formats, including MP3s, Apple’s Advanced Audio Coding and windows Media Audio. And it will load the music onto any device, be it a portable player like the Apple iPod, or Creative Labs Zen or Dell DJ or a high-end home audio server."

Converts to MP3 disc-over a local option - "Cambridge Soundworks is challenging the online conversion services by offering an in-store option. "There is a tremendous emotional connection to your CD collection, and for anyone to take their collection and hand it off to a stranger or send it off in the mail is a very emotional thing," said Rob Mainiero, Cambridge Soundworks Vice President."

Digital ripping made easy by ReadyToPlay - "If your new toy is being sadly ignored or under worked, you might consider employing the services of ReadyToPlay. The high-tech equivalent of a dog grooming/walking service, RTP will feed and exercise your player, making it ready to rock... While there are other ripping services out there... ReadyToPlay has to be the most flexible... To test (and maybe torture) the mettle of ReadyToPlay's team, I'd sent them a highly eclectic collection of discs, including a bunch of reviewer advances and indie label titles. Yet all but two copy-protected discs and one brand new classical title came back properly loaded and encoded with meta-data."

"Cambridge will promote the service in its stores with signs and is packaging it with Creative digital audio players and its own speakers. The service and products will be sold in 5 combinations..."

"...great potential for…consumers with larger collections who want to pay someone to catalog their music collection because they do not have the time or patience to do it themselves."

Ready To Play is Ready To Rip - "Tired of ripping discs? Ready To Play isn’t."

"It’s (the Ready To Play service) available at all Cambridge Soundworks locations and through the company’s web site."

"Customers can now walk into any Cambridge SoundWorks retail location, drop off their audio CDs and have them digitized and loaded onto an MP3 player. Cambridge SoundWorks will have demonstration systems available in every store."

"The service will appeal to an older, time starved demographics that shops at national and regional A/V specialists…For custom installers that transfer CD music to music servers as a customer service, ReadyToPlay will free up employees’ time to sell and install more distributed audio systems...."