About to rip my CD's to my computer

[Mathlete]

I just bought a phone that has a built in MP3 player, so I have come to the point where I need to put my CD's on my computer. I have never changed the original setting on my computer because I don't really use it for music(never had an MP3 player). It has iTunes on it but when I did a trial run itunes->computer->phone none of the files showed up in the library under Artists or Albums but showed up in All Files. I have a Samsung Delve if ti makes any difference.

So here are the things that I am concerned with in order from most important to least

1. Has to be a MP3
   Ease fo use
   One program to rip, tag and play files
   Would like album art attached
   Would like it to organize them for me
   Don't need the greatest sound quality just good(I am 25% deaf in one ear)
   I want to start this tonight

My plan is to download a new program and try a cd or 2 first.

I hear MediaMonkey, fubar2000, Winamp, VLC, EAC, FLAC all tossed around but I want one thats easy to use and does it all that does not rhyme with "die moons".

Please help!

Thanks

 

[rivan]

Search.

For mp3, the consensus seems to be EAC+LAME. It's what I'm using to RIP all mine now. The only thing it's missing is album art (not super important to me).

 

[roid450]

Windows Media player ALWAYS did the trick for me. I always choose 192kbps quality or higher If i feel like it. It puts them in folder and gets audip info and album art. I use WM Player 11

 

[armstrda]

Only if you change WMP 11 to use a different database (Like Freedb) Anyone know if there's a way to do that?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: roid450
Windows Media player ALWAYS did the trick for me. I always choose 192kbps quality or higher If i feel like it. It puts them in folder and gets audip info and album art. I use WM Player 11

I use WMP also. That's about as easy as it gets.

 

[theAnimal]

CDex.

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: theAnimal
CDex.

/thread

 

[corkyg]

I always use Audiograbber. It has LAME built in and rips nicely to WAV, then converts that to MP3 using the LAME encoder. It will place files anyrwhere you specify in your system.

Grab

It is now freeware.

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

qft.

I used to use EAC + LAME for years. But then I wouldn't use it for awhile and having to set it up all over again with the multitude of settings on new PCs really sucked. It was a time-sink.

I bit the bullet and bought dbpoweramp. It is a MUCH more elegant solution and just works flawlessly out of the box with barely any configuring at all. If you like to tinker, and figure stuff out, you can really get deep into EAC/LAME. If you're short on time and don't care to learn the ins and outs, and just want to rip CD's without potential configuration headaches, dbpoweramp is the perfect solution.