Any suggestions on good audio ripper?

[Isocene]

I'm going through all my 300 or so old cds laying around and Im trying to get rid of most of them.

For the audi cds, I want to rip them to my computer and later to mp3 cds for my car. My deck can read mp3 tags.

I'm looking for a good ripping program that will download all the tags for the cds and rip them to my hard drive efficently.

Also, what settings should I the mp3s at? I have a good audio setup in my house and my car so I want preserve all the audio quality I can. Hard drive space is not an issue.

Any advice would be much appreciated!


Thanks,

Mike

 

[minendo]

Not really sure about the tags since I don't use them, but I do all my ripping with EAC + Razor Lame + Lame at 192kbps.

 

[BurnItDwn]

EAC with Lame is what I use to rip my collection. I generally rip to VBR with an average bitrate of 224 kbit. It takes about twice as much space as the old 128kbit standard, but it sounds the same as the original to me.

 

[anxi80]

^ both great answers, imho. listen to the penguins man!!!

 

[spunkz]

make sure you know what your mp3 deck can read first. some can only read up to a certain bitrate, and some cant read VBR.
personally i use iTunes or MusicMatch @ 192 bit and it sounds great in my car, but if you're throwing away the cds go for the highest quality you can get.

 

[randomlinh]

cdex+lame

 

[Isocene]

Does it usually take 15 minutes or so to rip a cd with EAC and Lame?

 

[BurnItDwn]

EAC + Lame takes longer than most other programs I have used in the past. I turn on all the error checking stuff when ripping, so my drive only rips at like 4x to 8x on the average Encoding takes a couple minutes per track as well. a CD with 10 6 minute songs takes about 30 minutes or so to rip the way I do it. In the old days, my Cyrix p200+ with a 4x CDrom used to take 6 to 8 hours ripping and encoding with DAC and l3enc. And that was just to 128kbit.

 

[Isocene]

Wow I guess Id better be grateful for what I have then

I'm doing a little reading on EAC and LAME. Looks like a really nice setup.

its going to take a while to go through these 150 or so cds....


Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
cdex+lame