IndianEars
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Im not so sure that your proposed solution would be portable.....transportable , Yes.... 
The fastest way to rip hundreds of CDs
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It is available on Amazon USA and within my budget. But due to covid, the movement between countries is restricted. Also I doubt it can handle metadata issues.
Im not so sure that your proposed solution would be portable.....transportable , Yes....
Transportable will be ok for me.
I just need to connect three USB devices twice a day to my laptop.I will read about the product when I get time but you can enquire because this is just a mechanical device for loading of CDs and it must be working together with some ripping software. And some of ripping softwares such as EAC and dBpower..should get meta-data automatically provided your pc is connected to internet.
Probably the perfect solution for me but getting it from there is not possible. I have sent an email to makers so let's see how they respond.
How was your experience with MusicShifter. I am thinking of using them for about 500 CDs
I used them some 10 years ago for some 300 CDs and it was a nice experience.
kjw
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A long time ago I built a system with 10 cd drives for ripping. I realized the real bottleneck was inserting and removing the CDs. I am a programmer, so I wrote my own software to process them in batches. Workflow was basically: load 10 CDs, go to work, come home. load 10 CDs, go to sleep, Repeat. So 200 CDs only takes 10 days. Since time is not actually a constraint, I only ran one drive at a time for vibration and stability reasons (Pentium 4 was not fast enough to rip more than one at a time), and the mp3 conversions and metadata editing as a separate process on a my main machine.
While SATA multipliers are generally not considered very good/stable, they are apparently OK for single-device-access-a-a-time, which this scheme would use. If I had to rip all my disks again, I'd buy an old dell "desktop" server that has 6 or more sata ports on the motherboard. You could even buy it, use it, then sell it to recoup your money.
Good luck!
While SATA multipliers are generally not considered very good/stable, they are apparently OK for single-device-access-a-a-time, which this scheme would use. If I had to rip all my disks again, I'd buy an old dell "desktop" server that has 6 or more sata ports on the motherboard. You could even buy it, use it, then sell it to recoup your money.
Good luck!
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