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Introducing the 25 cent Standard CD Ripping Service

Jonathan — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:56:23 +0000

For more than three years, we’ve heard our customers (and potential customers) saying the same thing – “I think your service is awesome, but I don’t need every feature you offer, and it’s just too expensive for me right now.” Well, we are finally able and willing to do something about it – as of last week, we now offer our new Standard CD Ripping Service for the super-low price of $.25 per disc – that’s right, a quarter per disc!

Your CDs get the same love and care as everyone else - we just trim down the service to bare necessities. We’ll pull your album information and artwork from the FreeDB and Gracenote databases. While they’re not GD3 and AMG, these are the sources Apple uses with iTunes, so you know you’re getting quality. Insurance is extra, and if a few of your discs are damaged and unable to rip, we’ll separate them out for you so you can replace them or purchase them digitally online. We’ve also made insurance optional. It’s highly recommended, but optional nevertheless.

In the coming weeks we’ll be posting more information about the Standard CD Ripping Service, but for now click over to our services page and check out what the new option has to offer!

Announcement – We Switched to WordPress!

Jonathan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:08:24 +0000

Long story short – we finally have WordPress up and running to manage the Ripstyles Blog! There will be a few changes over the next few days, and unfortunately we were unable to move our comments over. We’ll be adding a lot more content from here on out, so look forward to it!

P.S. – Please update your RSS feed! You can find our RSS link at the top right of every page!

Welcome

Jonathan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:00:45 +0000

Let’s just dive right in. In 3 years, we’ve changed the primary look and feel of the ripstyles.com website 4 times. That’s pretty impressive! This fourth version, which we’ve codenamed “Azimuth”, offers what we feel to be the best CD conversion experience in the industry. We’ve moved away from a hosted shopping cart to a new, completely original cart that was designed and built as a collaborative effort between the internal Ripstyles team and the amazing Obuweb (thanks, Josh!). We’ve gotten away from our shared hosting provider and are now running on a shiny new virtual dedicated server from Media Temple, and have used an amazing PHP framework called CodeIgniter to build the website and a completely new backend infrastructure. All in all, this allows us to provide unparalleled efficiency and features to you!

The Ripstyles Blog is going to be dedicated to three main areas – announcements about cool new technologies and gadgets we think our customers and friends should know about, discussion and interpretation of events happening in the industry, and a general news source for what’s happening at Ripstyles. We welcome questions and concerns, which you can access through our website contact form or the Get Satisfaction! link on the left of every page, and we’d love to make things change based upon your input.

You can also check us out on Twitter, Facebook, and a few other places around the internet – just ask Google nicely and it’ll lead you in the right direction.

Most of the writing on here will be from Jonathan and Jeff, but you might find some guest appearances by Rob, Chris, Maria, Liz, and others. Trying to get a hold of a specific blogger? Contact us!

We’ve had a great time making this website and building our business into something beyond our wildest imaginations, and we hope that you can join us to the next milestone!