Audio ripping software

[Brian Stirling]

About 9 years ago I ripped a bunch of my 250+ CD's using EasyCD Creator and played them on my desktop which is now dead.

About 3.5 years ago, when I got the iPhone 3G, I used iTunes to rip some CD's.

I now have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with ICS and I'd like to rip my CD collection and transfer them to my GNex. I'd also like to have as many of the covers for them as possible but because some of my music is a bit obscure I don't expect all of them to have cover art.

So, if the goal is to transfer to the GNex what's a good software to rip audio CD's? I would like to have control over the bit rate so I can lower the rate on somethings and go with higher rates for other things.

I should mention that I also have a company provided iPhone 4 and therefore the latest iTunes, but I'd prefer a more direct rip->transfer setup that doesn't involve iTunes...


Thanks,

Brian Stirling

 

[jhansman]

I still rip with iTunes, but sync the library with Double Twist, which I use to get music onto my Android. I have emailed the developers of DT asking that they implement both ripping and streaming radio, so those of us who want to ditch iTunes for good, can. No reply as yet.

 

[zokudu]

EAC. Do it right and rip to a lossless format such as FLAC or ALAC (guide: http://blowfish.be/eac/) and then transcode to any format you want.

Most likely mp3 -V0 using LAME through a program such as Foobar2k or DBPowerAMP. If you need a transcoding guide I could write one up for you but it may take a bit to take screenshots.

Save the FLAC files and if for instance you swap back to an iPhone you can then transcode those lossless files to an AAC without suffering a quality loss.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Thanks for the ideas guys. I'm testing out the WMAF format from within Windows Media Player and encoding at max bit rate. The fully lossless formats tend towards file sizes that would be too big to fit all the CD's I have (250+). It looks like using max bit rate WMAF would reduce the 250 CD's to about 16GB leaving about 10GB free for other media etc.


Brian

 

[sygyzy]

definitely use EAC with a flac or lame plugin.

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