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Compile (of crap) - CD burning hell

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eggrock

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All I want to do is this:

  • Rip selected tracks from several CDs to the hard drive
  • Play around with the tracks (eg listen to them) to determine the 'best' order
  • Burn those tracks to CD in the order I desire.

The last item has some selective criteria. It must be 'normal' music, eg something a regular CD player can play. Plus I want the exact same quality the original CD had (or best approximation thereof).

WTF???? I thought this would be cake. I've done .wav compilations but the quality has been substandard, and for whatever reason C-Dex wants to take 35 minutes to rip 3 tracks!! Nero ctd's when I try to access Tool: Undertow. I got an EasyLAME recommendation from the Ars forums--it's that kind of night, I get a 'forbidden' message when trying to get to the download page.

Damn... I just want a quick compilation of tunes! I paid the $16 several times over for the 2-3 good tracks on each CD; all I want to do is combine all the good tunes so I don't have to filter out the bad.

If this keeps up I'm going to hang it up, buy a bunch of Neil Sedaka CDs and drink myself to death--if the music doesn't kill me first, that is. Help!!
 
I personally like using the Exact Audio Copy program to rip the CDs first, then Lame to encode. There are many different GUIs for Lame, so if you can't find that one try RazorLame (the only one I use on those rare occasions I use a GUI for Lame.) Anyway, Lame is a free and commonly used encoder, so if you can't get to it's official website (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/) then just keep looking on major download sites until you find it. Probably sourceforge would have a minimum of 5 I would guess.

Oh, and the reason it takes so long may likely be due to damaged spots on the CD slowing the process down. If the CD is really bad, be prepared to spend a lot of time on it. An unfortunate downside of the way this medium works is that a small scratch of the right nature can do serious damage.
 
If you get the LAME executable, you can just point EAC to it, and it will encode each track right after it is finished ripping. It's by far the quickest, easiest, and best quality method for ripping/encoding that I've found.

Look in the "External Compression" section of the "Compression" menu.

Also, if you don't delete the .wav files after encoding, you can use the CD-writer component of EAC. I've never had problems with the writing component. The software author is incredibly compulsive about data integrity, so I would tend to trust that there will be no quality problems.
 
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