Search on Google and you can find CD ripping as low as $.59 a CD.   At ReadyToPlay, our value isn’t based on lowest price or time savings.  Our value is based on quality and our proven ability to deliver the best library of digital music available today.

You get what you pay for.

• We only work with premium metadata.  Artist names are consistent, album titles and genres are accurate.  There are a number of lesser, free databases that can be used, but we want the best results for our customers, so we pay for great data.

• No matter how good the database is, every collection is manually reviewed.   Our engineers hand-certify each project and manually edit the metadata for consistency across the whole collection.  This is the only way to ensure that your collection is clean and usable.

• Before your job leaves our office, we review the work one more time to ensure the highest possible quality.  We don’t simply rip and ship, leaving the work of editing your collection up to you. 

There’s a real difference between premium and lesser databases.  With lesser databases you get:

• Multiple iterations of artists

• Gladys Knight, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Gladys Knight and the Pips
• Sheryl Crow and Cheryl Crow
• No intentional differentiation between Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band OR Bill Evans and Bill Evans Trio
• Some artist names are last name, then first name, others are first name, last name (John, Elton and Elton John).

• Inaccurate artist naming for classical music

• Simply Mozart or Beethoven is in the artist field, instead of Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein or the London Symphony Orchestra.
• RTP puts the performing artist in the artist field and the composer name in front of the work, in the album title for easy sorting.
• NO composer data.

• An overwhelming number of genres

• You get Alt. Rock, Alternative and Alternative Rock.
• You get a huge list of unknown or bizarre genres (Mariachi, Death Grind Metal, Unclassifiable, Goth/Industrial, Post-Punk, etc).

• Albums with the same title that are combined

• Greatest Hits CDs from five different performers all listed as Greatest Hits which mixes them together. 

• Inconsistent Box Set naming

• Inconsistent box set CD naming where the first CD of a box set is called something totally different from second disc.

• No album art
• No styles

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.