Tranquil PC have launched a great solution for rips music to your Windows Home Server via your Media Center machine. The system provides networked CD and DVD ripping from your Windows 7 machine so your PC will automatically rip your optical media and store it on a Windows Home Server. There is a Windows Home Server and a Windows Media Center addin and this video provides more info on the service.

The service costs £89.00 from Tranquil’s online shop

Here are the details from Tranquil

All the benefits of RipNet along with the renowned Home Server Add In – AVA Media.  This version provides automated ripping of Audio CDs, DVD*s and Blu-Ray* discs.  You also receive movie monitor, which gets cover art etc for your existing movie files.

The Music Disc Copier is a fully automated CD ripper, that allows you to automatically copy your music cd’s directly to the Home Servers storage making it available to Media Centres, such as Microsoft Media Centre, Media Portal, Beyond TV, and many others, gaming devices such as Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, and music playback devices such as Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos Digital Music Systems and many others.

Your music can be copied either to lossless music formats such as Windows Media Audio Lossless or FLAC, and/or to highly compressed Windows Media Audio or MP3 files, or a combination, allowing you to store a primary format for in-house playback, and a secondary format for mobile devices.

Your Video disks can be copied to either VIDEO_TS formats for DVD’s, ISO format for DVD or Blu-ray, or a Media Centre Extender compatible MPEG-2 format for DVD’s, or you can copy both to a VIDEO_TS format as well as an MPEG-2 format for DVD’s, allowing the full VIDEO_TS structure to be played on the main Media Centre, and the MPEG-2 file on your Media Centre Extender

The Movie Monitor will automatically identify movie folders in your Windows Home Server’s video libraries, and add high quality meta-data to the titles, making the meta-data available to several numerous Media Centre software products, as well as storing a folder image for the movie folders when browsing the folders with Windows Explorer. 
The data is be stored directly in the movie folder as an XML file, front and back cover image files, as well as a folder.jpg file, making the data openly available to any program that supports them, including My Movies, Media Centres DVD library, using the "DVD library Connector etc

All the benefits of RipNet along with the renowned Home Server Add In – AVA Media.  This version provides automated ripping of Audio CDs, DVD*s and Blu-Ray* discs.  You also receive movie monitor, which gets cover art etc for your existing movie files.

The Music Disc Copier is a fully automated CD ripper, that allows you to automatically copy your music cd’s directly to the Home Servers storage making it available to Media Centres, such as Microsoft Media Centre, Media Portal, Beyond TV, and many others, gaming devices such as Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, and music playback devices such as Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos Digital Music Systems and many others.

Your music can be copied either to lossless music formats such as Windows Media Audio Lossless or FLAC, and/or to highly compressed Windows Media Audio or MP3 files, or a combination, allowing you to store a primary format for in-house playback, and a secondary format for mobile devices.

Your Video disks can be copied to either VIDEO_TS formats for DVD’s, ISO format for DVD or Blu-ray, or a Media Centre Extender compatible MPEG-2 format for DVD’s, or you can copy both to a VIDEO_TS format as well as an MPEG-2 format for DVD’s, allowing the full VIDEO_TS structure to be played on the main Media Centre, and the MPEG-2 file on your Media Centre Extender

The Movie Monitor will automatically identify movie folders in your Windows Home Server’s video libraries, and add high quality meta-data to the titles, making the meta-data available to several numerous Media Centre software products, as well as storing a folder image for the movie folders when browsing the folders with Windows Explorer. 
The data is be stored directly in the movie folder as an XML file, front and back cover image files, as well as a folder.jpg file, making the data openly available to any program that supports them, including My Movies, Media Centres DVD library, using the "DVD library Connector etc

via Mr Endey

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