SuBXeRo Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 anyone has any suggestion, free is preferable but i am willing to pay for a quality program. I have a ton of cd's including part of my fathers collection that i want to upload. I am testing a few out right now. I need something that will let me encode mp3's at a minimum of 320kbps CBR, i want the highest quality mp3's i can get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formica Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Why not rip them in FLAC?... http://blog.bowers-wilkins.com/speakers/definitive-guides/the-definitive-guide-to-24-bit-flac/Rip: EAC or Exact Audio Copy : http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Play: Foobar 2000 : http://www.foobar2000.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbsl Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Why not rip them in FLAC?... http://blog.bowers-wilkins.com/speakers/definitive-guides/the-definitive-guide-to-24-bit-flac/ Rip: EAC or Exact Audio Copy : http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Play: Foobar 2000 : http://www.foobar2000.org/ That is what I have been using. [Y] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o0O Bill O0o Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 I use Phile Audio for Mac. http://www.c7software.com/. iTunes works great for free & has error correction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tromprof Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Exact Audio Copy. It is as the name says, exact and very anal about getting the rip right. It is also free. If you are going to take the time to do this, rip them as FLAC files, then down convert to mp3 as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KdAgain Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 If you don't mind paying about$50 "for a quality program" I strongly suggest you look at JRiver Media Center 17. Using their 'Secure' ripping mode will give you as high quality of rips as any program out there. JRMC is highly rated in the computer audiophile community. As others have suggested, do your ripping to FLAC. It's a 'Lossless' form of compression and has the ability to store a lot of metadata with the files. With MC17 you can easily make copies of the files to various MP3 qualities. But keep your originals as FLAC so if you get your computer hooked up to your playback system everything will be available in the best quality. If you have "A ton" of Cds you will also find it to be by far the best program for organizing your media. It can a times be a little difficult to learn some parts of the program but they also have an excellent & helpful forum. I started using it just for audio. We now have all our DVDs ripped to it and have switched from SageTV to it for our TV recording and playback. The program has incredible picture quality if you're into such things. They come out with a new version about once a year, and it is being constantly improved/updated throughout the year. I'm not on commision but obviously am very pleased with this program. Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 whats wrong with Apple lossless or Nero? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I had issues with my Mac Minis and Time Capsule along with the PC. I have gone to an external drive USB'd into my router. I am now considering this box: Vortexbox.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o0O Bill O0o Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 whats wrong with Apple lossless or Nero? Nothing, I guess different strokes for different folks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psg Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Exact Audio Copy. It is as the name says, exact and very anal about getting the rip right. It is also free. If you are going to take the time to do this, rip them as FLAC files, then down convert to mp3 as needed. That's what I'd use on Windows. I used abcde on Linux to rip to FLAC (abcde is a frontend program to cdparanoia and other stuff). It can convert to mp3 at the same time and store in a parallel directory tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tromprof Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 If you don't mind paying about$50 "for a quality program" I strongly suggest you look at JRiver Media Center 17. Using their 'Secure' ripping mode will give you as high quality of rips as any program out there. JRMC is highly rated in the computer audiophile community. As others have suggested, do your ripping to FLAC. It's a 'Lossless' form of compression and has the ability to store a lot of metadata with the files. With MC17 you can easily make copies of the files to various MP3 qualities. But keep your originals as FLAC so if you get your computer hooked up to your playback system everything will be available in the best quality. If you have "A ton" of Cds you will also find it to be by far the best program for organizing your media. It can a times be a little difficult to learn some parts of the program but they also have an excellent & helpful forum. I started using it just for audio. We now have all our DVDs ripped to it and have switched from SageTV to it for our TV recording and playback. The program has incredible picture quality if you're into such things. They come out with a new version about once a year, and it is being constantly improved/updated throughout the year. I'm not on commision but obviously am very pleased with this program. Rod J.River also works very well with Exact Audio Copy (EAC). I rip using EAC and J.River within seconds automatically adds the file to it's library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_benjammin Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 another vote for EAC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I have been using Media Monkey to rip in FLAC, it handles MP3 as well. Handles metadata as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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