white_shadow Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Which cd ripping software do you use. From CD to compressed formats and vice versa. For backup purposes of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olorin Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 On Windows -- Exact Audio Copy if you can find it for ripping. Lame plus RazorLame for encoding. On $FREE_OS -- Exact Audio Copy in wine/wineX when it feels like working, cdparanoia when it doesn't. Lame and a shell script for encoding. For running them back out from compressed, WinAmp on Windows or XMMS on $FREE_OS. Enable the Disk Writer plug-in and push play. For backup purposes of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meuge Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 CDEx all the way. It's free and very highly configurable. P.S. For backup purposes I recommend using lossless WAV... if you want, you can convert the WAV to FLAC to save some space (FLAC is also lossless). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnysal Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 I use windows media player 10, make sure error correction is set for read and write on your CD/DVD burner, and set the player to rip using windows media audio lossless, sounds great to me! regards, tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaveli Posted October 7, 2004 Share Posted October 7, 2004 dBpowerAMP Music Converter for me. Works great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 ---------------- On 10/6/2004 4:58:02 PM white_shadow wrote: Which cd ripping software do you use. From CD to compressed formats and vice versa. For backup purposes of course. ---------------- What operating system are you looking for? I use Toast on the Mac G5 and I'm a fan of Nero for the pc. Though the reason I use is Nero is because it has a very nice noise reduction system that I use for recovering old cassette tapes (it's better than a lot of the mega thousand dollar VST plugins that you can buy). I've always found windows media player to be a pain as well as the Roxio Easy CD Creator lineup (which is software that comes with a lot of burners). They both don't let you have access to all the features on a CD. There's a whole forum dedicated to this at: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org They've got lots of info regarding all the compressions (Ogg vorbis and FLAC) and all the programs out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 BTW, Nero itself doesn't have the noise reduction...it's a bundled program that comes with most of the packages called Nero Wave Editor. I had trouble getting it working on a P3 running windows 98, but the latest patches seemed to fix that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dblue Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Exact Audio Copy with LAME all the way. By far, the best ripping software on the planet. And it's all open source = FREE! Just make sure you take the time to read the documentation and set it up properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelShaffer Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Another vote for EAC and Lame combo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooting_monkey Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 I find myself using Easy CD-DA and Vorbis over the EAC/Lame MP3 more often, but both are very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meuge Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Don't ever rip to MP3s. The format is pretty much dead. For the same space, you can get much higher quality if you use Vorbis or MPC. You can search in the Promedia forum for my post earlier this year, where I compared MP3 and OGG vs. WAV. Vorbis was such a clear winner, it's not even funny. But with current hard drives running less than 50c/GB it's a shame not to rip uncompressed. Also, if you ever scratch of lose your CDs, you could recover them by burning your uncompressed rips without any loss of quality from the original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dblue Posted October 11, 2004 Share Posted October 11, 2004 i don't agree at all with the format being "dead". I do agree that there are newer, better formats out there, but what has the highest portability and compatibility? Mp3. And eventually, uncompressed will be the way to go, but for now, I'm sticking with high-quality VBR compression, I can't even come close to telling the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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