Professional Grade CD Import

Hey Everyone,
I was hoping that you guys could help me answer a question that I have. I am starting a small business that specializes in mp3 and other audio products and I was thinking about adding a CD to digital format conversion service, but I do not think that my Powermac and iTunes will cut it. It would take forever to copy an individuals entire music collection using this consumer method, so does anyone have a more professional method of doing this?
It needs to be quick and allow the songs to be converted to many different formats (mp3, wmv, aac, loss-less, etc.). I think that this would work best with different hardware, not just different software.
Please do not take this wrong and think that I am bashing my mac because I am not. I currently own 4 macs, have been a long time user, and owned one as my very first computer. I just think that a piece of hardware that specializes in this job will be able to do it quicker, and I do not have the time to sit and wait for 20 minutes of importing per CD. Now if there was a way that I could put all of the CD's in my 200-disc CD Changer and have my mac automate importing all of them, then we would be in business.
Let me know what you guys think about this. Thanks for your help. You can always depend on the Apple community...It's a beautiful thing!
Thanks,
Jason

I'm sorry, I did not mean to sound condescending.
It should not take 20 minutes for your computer to rip a CD, unless the CD is heavily scratched. It never takes me more than 5 minutes to rip a CD on my laptop. When I was using my old Power Mac G4 with an LG GCC-4320B combo drive, I could rip as fast as 20X. If you get a modern, fast drive, you should be able to rip a CD yourself in 2-5 minutes. There are programs like Max for OS X, and Exact Audio Copy and Foobar2000 for Windows, that can rip to multiple file formats at once.
I don't know what specific hardware CD ripping services use, but the fact remains that an optical drive is an optical drive. If someone has invented superfast optical drives beyond what is already available to modern consumers, then I would think they'd be out in the market by now. I assume CD ripping services just have multiple computers with multiple drives, maybe multiple employees, and well-oiled procedures. They may use an internal database and scripts of some kind for auto-tagging, so they don't have to worry about entering in tags manually or fixing the sometimes-bad info you get from Gracenote or FreeDB. They may or may not be even sophisticated enough to care about cover art.
Using a stereo component CD changer would probably end up being even slower, because they aren't capable of playing at more than 1X, so it would end up taking the full running time of those 200 CDs to rip them all.

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