Pick up an internal drive and get a good enclosure. Way better than any of the external junk on Amazon. Better yet get one of the LG bluray drives that support ripping 4k discs. Might need to flash the firmware. That’s what I use and it’s great and really fast for plain cds as a bonus.
Yeah, there are a lot of installer apps/helper scripts that assist with installing LibreDrive firmware for compatible drives on different threads on the forum. I was asking about other approaches to doing the same thing that LibreDrive/MakeMKV does.