"At last, a professional ripping service for opera and classical music lovers! Ready to Play turned my 500+ CD collection into a well organized and informative library. No scratches, no missing tracks, no dud burns.  Their detailed tagging system allows me to find specific tracks, artists, composers, genre and musicians with ease.  And RTP’s individual customer service is fantastic: Jeff Tedesco discussed my collection and library objectives in-depth, executed the rip promptly and followed up twice to make sure all was in order. I had previously tried another company who burned the collection without reference to movement/act names, poor tagging and lots of incomplete rips. I also called a few companies and they clearly had little experience with classical music collections. What a pleasure to find such tailor-made service. " Sarah Y. February, 2012

We've ripped more classical CDs than any other service in the world over the last 9 Years - and there is a reason: we are more thoughtful, more process driven and use the best databases in the world.

DOES YOUR COLLECTION LOOK LIKE THIS? DOWNLOAD THESE SPREADSHEET SAMPLES OF OUR WORK. (Of course, we can't supply album artwork with these spreadsheets but it is included with your rip!)

800 Classical CDs: Listed by album title: 800 classical cds

350 Classical CDs: With Opera Duplicates works 350 CDs with Opera

Call 650-213-9300 for spreadsheets with track data (they are too large)!

Problem #1 with Classical music: It is tough to do and there are no standards how how to present and incorporate all the different data pieces (Conductor, orchestra, movement, performers etc).

• Read our article "Why Classical Music is So Hard to Rip" for more detail.

Problem #2 with Classical music: Most services use free or inferior databases in which to get the all important data (album title, artist, composers, etc). Specifically we do what no one else does:

• We use AMG metadata (artist, album, genre, etc) combined with other databases (GD3, MusicBrainz etc) for clean library-quality data.  Your collection has consistent genres, artist names and album titles all logically-organized.
• Deep Classical Metadata. Composer data and classical sub-genres like Symphonic, Choral, Orchestral, Opera & Chamber are typically provided.   To see a list of the genres we use, click here.

Problem #3 with Classical music: Our databases are the best available, but they aren't right 100% of the time! To fix this, we provide the following:

• We hand check every cd for the data on the first pass and then examine the collection a 2nd time for consistency across the whole collection. Name a competitor that does this type of attention to detail!
• We hand-enter CDs for box sets insuring that all box sets show up consistently.

If you have questions, feel free to call us at 650-213-9300 (9am-5pm PST).
We'd love to walk you through the process of going digital.