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Best mp3 ripper? (from cds)

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Mexicorn

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I've mostly been using Easy CD-DA Extractor for my ripping needs, but i've recently reformated and was wondering what other possibilities there might be. Is this the best ripper around right now, or is there something better?
 
Bah. Very slow my ass. Get a good drive. My Liteon LTD-163 DVD drive will do upwards of 20x on a decent CD. It can do close to 30x on new CD. Secure ripping > *.
 
EAC isn't that slow, usually takes me 10 minutes to rip a CD. And what's the point of super fast ripping if you get bad results?
 
Originally posted by strid3r
And what's the point of super fast ripping if you get bad results?
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What do you define as bad results? Having slightly lower quality that your ear can't pick up unless you study the auido really carefully or having those damn annoying garbled sounds in your audio. dBpowerAMP uses LAME so it can't really go wrong.
 
Well I don't know what you define as "lower quality" but I can hear the difference between let's say 128 bitrate and 192 bitrate. And yeah, bad results = static noises and the like. I remember ripping this CD about 4 times with one of those fast rippers till I finally got no crackling.
 
When you are ripping a whole stack of CDs, it's pretty nice to have confidence that you get a good rip the first time, every time. This is why secure ripping is nice. If you have the good fortune or forethought to have an optical drive that does not do audio caching (such as the LTD-163 with the right firmware), then secure ripping can be plenty fast enough to outpace your encoding program.

Speaking of which, this is another reason that I like EAC. When set up properly, ripping and encoding can happen as two decoupled operations. This is good if you have a slow(er) CPU and a fast(er) drive. You can keep on dropping in the CD, while the encoding operations stack up in a cue. Then these operations can continue overnight, unattended.
 
I'm still using AudioCrusher for ripping all of my CD's. I have yet to get a bad result out of it, and don't notice any hissing, popping or anything else. I've ripped over 150 CD's with it.

Someday I will try EAC and see if their is a difference, but I like how easy AudioCrusher is to use: Install, put the LAME .dll in the AC folder, start program, select drive, press "Rip", select bitrate and format options, then select "O.K". A full disc takes about three minutes more or less.

The AC program has been upgraded with more options in it's latest release, so if you've checked it out in the past it may be worth checking out again.

Tim
 
wow, didn't know it was so complicated to just get a good rip of a cd. I did my main cd collection through eas cd-da at 192kbps and haven't noticed any degradations in quaity at all (except one cd which was badly scratched, and there are just spaces of silence within the mp3 track). What are the plusses of EAC?
 
Originally posted by Mexicorn
wow, didn't know it was so complicated to just get a good rip of a cd. I did my main cd collection through eas cd-da at 192kbps and haven't noticed any degradations in quaity at all (except one cd which was badly scratched, and there are just spaces of silence within the mp3 track). What are the plusses of EAC?
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The plus:

You know you're getting the best quality rip every time, and it tells you it's confidence level as well.

The minus:

Waiting a bit longer per CD


I think it's worth the peace of mind.


Also, if you don't want to use commandline LAME, try WinLame which is a freeware LAME frontend.
 
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