About
Stream digitally. Collect physically.
Unrip helps you turn the music you already love into a physical collection, without paying more than you need to.
Why I built Unrip
I’m a software engineer who loves music and hi-fi. I started collecting physical albums later in life, after years of saving music on Spotify. I had hundreds of albums I loved and no physical collection.
Starting meant looking for a lot of albums at once. Comparing prices was only part of the work. I also had to check which sellers carried several albums I wanted, work out shipping, and keep searching for better combinations.
I built Unrip to take care of that work, to help turn a library of music you love into a collection you can hold.
The thinking behind it
Each album adds more choices: copies, conditions, sellers and shipping costs. The best single prices don’t necessarily add up to the best way to buy your list.
Unrip uses mixed integer linear programming, a mathematical optimization method, to work through those connected choices. It looks for the combination that meets your standards at the lowest delivered total it can find, from the listings it has checked.
Free to use
Your Wantlist, the cheapest way to buy it, and watches on records and your Top albums are all free. Unrip never takes payment: you buy from each seller directly. Making an account never turns on alerts by itself.
How Unrip makes money
Guides are researched and drafted with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed with each guide.