By Rachel Cericola, Jan 17, 2006

With everyone and their mother coming out with portable media players, it's time to get ripped -- at least all of your CDs.

Ripping is the processing of converting all of your CDs into digital media. That makes it a lot easier to stuff songs onto your portable, versus physically trying to load a CD into an MP3 player.

The only problem is, no matter how many players and services guarantee that theirs is the fastest and easiest, if you have a music collection over 50 CDs, it's going to take some of your precious time to get everything iPod-ready. Should you set aside your vacation? Quit your job? Just pass the buck and have someone else do the dirty digital work.

Riptopa is such a service. Go online and you can place your order. If you're not even sure where to start, you can even purchase an MP3 player through their site. Don't expect to just send a handful of Stones CDs; the minimum order is 50 for $89. From there, you can increase the order in increments of 50. The larger the order, the more of a bargain it is.

From there, Riptopia will send you all of the shipping materials to send your CD collection. Don't worry -- your babies will be protected and insured. And you don't have to worry about separation anxiety either, because your digital music library and collection will be back in less than 48 hours. You still have to do some legwork and load them yourself. The library comes organized by artist, album and genre on high-density DVDs with instructions on how to get them to your player. If you order hardware from them, all of the work will be done for you as well.