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lossless audio ripping/compression

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can anyone suggest a good program/format to rip/encode cd's to? ive been digging around and the APE format looks like it is pretty good. any thoughts or suggestions?
 
There are lots of good extraction/encoding programs out there. The most popular ones, it seems, are Exact Audio Copy and CDex. They do the ripping, then act as front-ends for encoder executable files. Then you just install the encoder you want, and point these programs to the executable and it will encode to that format.

There are lots of lossless codecs to choose from. Besides APE, I think the other viable alternatives would be FLAC (very popular) and lossless WMA (backed by Microsoft, so it probably enjoys broad compatibility). If you want to know more, I'd check out

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org
 
I would strongly suggest using FLAC as the lossless codec because it appears to have the most steam and suppport behind it. However the great thing about lossless is if you decided later you want a different codec all it takes is a script and CPU time and all your music is moved to the "latest and greatest" codec without a generation loss.
 
GodsMadClown said:
How to rip an album to a single file, and still be able to have full tracklists, etc

http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1026218339&postcount=25

Some of the file links point towards older software versions, and the batch files needed twaeking to get them working right, but the above guide is pretty cool and should get you walking down the right path.
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Hey, somebody remembered my foobar/EAC/FLAC bastard lovechild writeup =]

Over at HA somebody has made a new program, FLACattack, that should be able to replace my monstrous guide and be simpler / faster, but so far I haven't been able to get full tagging capabilities out of it. FLAC just really needs to have a full-featured internal cue-sheet, but apparently, the creator deemed that unnecessary =\

If I find how to get FLACattack to do everything you can with FLAC/MKA, I'll change that guide to reflect it.
 
Yeah. I did it once, and immediately wished that I'd used it to to rip the CDs that I borrowed from my friend and library Instead I ripped each track to an individual Monkey's Audio file.

Your format is more elegant since the cue and (losslessly compressed) wav can be used to write a bit-perfect CD copy. At least as bit-perfect as the original CD, your drive and EAC can get it.
 
GodsMadClown said:
Yeah. I did it once, and immediately wished that I'd used it to to rip the CDs that I borrowed from my friend and library Instead I ripped each track to an individual Monkey's Audio file.

Your format is more elegant since the cue and (losslessly compressed) wav can be used to write a bit-perfect CD copy. At least as bit-perfect as the original CD, your drive and EAC can get it.
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The only real downside I have with the method I posted is that it is a bit slow for writing tags, etc, due to added overhead from the MKA container. Other than that, it works just fine. Still, FLAC should support all those features in its internal cuesheet, which would make all this hassle obsolete.
 
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