Complete beginner here, and just dipping my toes in the wonderful world of ripping old media.
I’m currently ripping my (and my parent’s) old CDs, and yesterday the optical drive broke due to a mechanical problem. So I’m looking for a new one, and then I thought: I also have a bunch of DVDs and blu-rays laying around and maybe I can rip those too.
But then I started my research and kinda got overwhelmed by the amount of information: internal/external drive, different file types, jailbreaking the drive, flashing the drive, makeMKV, Handbreak, etc. I’m scared of buying an expensive drive and then finding out I bought or did something wrong.
What I want is nothing fancy. I don’t need lossless FLAC music or the best possible video quality. I’m satisfied with medium quality mp3s and 1080p or 2160p movies. Can every blu-ray reader even read CDs? Should I even invest in a blu-ray reader or just go with a simple cd-dvd reader, and just download the blu-ray movies that I own through other means?