I was reading the Guardian as one does occasionally and getting increasingly discouraged by the chorus of gloom about the impending catastrophic overheating of the planet, exploitation of the working class by evil corporations in pursuit of short term profit etc. So I turned to the reader offer pages for relief and came on the X10 device.
Question:: is there a linux distro that does what the X10 does? What it seems to do is, you give it a CD and it then automagically rips it and sticks it into a database. Then it acts as a searchable player/server. Its basically a music server with an integrated ripping function. In short order and only by feeding it your CDs you seem to end up with a proper collection in easily usable format. Here is a review:
http://www.whathifi.com/review/cocktail-audio-x10-500gb
Is there a distro with all this stuff integrated for the purpose? Or a package? Do people do this with their old CD collections and if so what do they use.
Al
[Feeling somewhat more cheerful having diverted my attention to a safe technical topic... Must remember not to go there again!]