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Best app for encoding MANY MP3s?

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AndrewR

Lifer
I looked around last night and found a shareware encoder, can't remember the name (on a different computer), and it took forever to do, mostly because I had to rename the files and then rename them in the Properties to populate Media Player's listing with artist name, album title, and song title.

So, I suppose I should either find a different shareware/freeware program or find something commercially available that works well. Any suggestions?
 
I just use WMP.

You can set it to RIP automatically when you insert a CD. You can set it to automatically go get all the album info and everything. And I thin it can eject when it's done. Plus you can set MP3 vs WMA, etc.

That's what I used just because it's so easy and really doesn't need any interaction except cycling the CDs and every once in a while if I notice it pulls a wrong track inf o or something I have to fix it but that's it.

I just sat watching TV with 2 laptops and just swapped disks for a few hours on a Saturday and got through it pretty quickly.
 
the cd changer from sony lets you rip 200 cds at a time. Its 300 bucks...but something to consider since you'd be saving huge amounts of time.
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
the cd changer from sony lets you rip 200 cds at a time. Its 300 bucks...but something to consider since you'd be saving huge amounts of time.
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Hmm, I have a Sony Mega Changer for CD/DVD -- the one with 400 disc capacity. I guess I should RTFM and see if I can make that work! 😀

I'll check into WMP, too. Maybe I underestimate it. Thanks for the help.
 
Oh, just found out what you're talking about, and it's not what I was thinking (Vaio CD changer). Pretty cool, but I'm fairly confident that mine won't do that. 😉
 
Exact Audio Copy and CDex are the two most recommended here, both can do lookups to find the artist/song information.

If you plan to use your PC as a jukebox with good speakers, you could rip to a lossless format like FLAC for 100% CD quality (roughly 140 GB for 400 CDs) then use a program like dbPowerAmp to automatically build a second set of tracks in MP3 for portable use.
 
I've been slowly getting through mine.

Using WMP 10.

It cddb downloads and starts auto-ripping to a very nicely organized folder structure then auto ejects when complete.

 
I like Cdex because it allows for custom commandlines.

My FLAC commandline:
-8 -m -e -p %1 -V -f --replay-gain -T Artist="%a" -T Album="%b" -T Title="%t" -T Date="%y" -T Genre="%g" -T Tracknumber="%tn" -o "%2"

LAME MP3 commandline:
-m s --replaygain-accurate -q 0 -b 160 -p --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%b" --ty "%y" --tn "%tn" --tg "%g" --id3v2-only --pad-id3v2 %1 %2


High quality and good compression, at the cost of longer encoding times.
 
Originally posted by: KlokWyze
I use CDex.
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bump for CDex! I love it, ripped about 250 disc's with it, of course this was years ago and I used the OGG codec, now I'm stuck with 40 gigs of tunes I can't play in my MP3 Car Player or just about all portable devices. CDex is easy to use, and very fast, Exact Audio Copy is nice to. If you're picky about quality don't use WMP it's easy and fast but not good. the new Winamp Pro encodes audio, I can't comment on the quality but I'd imagine it's worth looking into, Winamp has always been quality to me.
 
^ that's one reason to rip to lossless FLAC, you can transcode to other formats as often as you want with the same quality as if you re-ripped from CD.

FYI, dbPowerAmp's mass select could transcode all of your Oggs to MP3 for car use, though with some lossy-to-lossy quality loss.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
^ that's one reason to rip to lossless FLAC, you can transcode to other formats as often as you want with the same quality as if you re-ripped from CD.

FYI, dbPowerAmp's mass select could transcode all of your Oggs to MP3 for car use, though with some lossy-to-lossy quality loss.
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I learned about lossless after I encoded 250 cd's, I just need to find a car stereo that does OGG and I'm fine. I agree if you have space, FLAC or Monkey is the best way to rip. 400 disc's would take a bit of space FLAC'ed but would be worth it

and the lossy-to-lossy quality loss is bad enough for me not to do it. OGG is great, but that's what I get for supporting "open source" hehehe.
 
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