Good music Ripper.....

[quackerww]

I have tryed these and they all have there probs

Yahoo
Music Match
WMP
Itunes
Real PLayer
Ezcdextractor
J river
Raphsody
Napster

Anyone know of any others? I'm looking for a good one that has really good quality and does not sound like im listingng to my music on mute.

 

[Lonyo]

EAC + LAME?
Or a Flac or Ogg encoder.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
EAC + LAME?
Or a Flac or Ogg encoder.

Ftw. dBPowerAmp is a nice frontend for all of the above.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I've ripped over 1,000 CDs using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) using the FLAC (lossless) encoder. Worked great.

EAC verifies its reads and tries multiple times if necessary so if at all possible you'll get a perfect rip on every CD, and it will warn on of the ones that had problems.

My music server box is a Tualatin 1.3 GHz, 512 MB RAM, old Asus 40X CD, and rip + encode time was about 10 minutes per CD.

 

[BW86]

EAC and Flac.

 

[Loop2kil]

One of my favorites is AudioGrabber with lame...works great and has some nice options

 

[imported_jb]

ripper? stream ripping?
winamp is great for CD ripping. takes care of scratches pretty nicely.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
EAC + LAME?
Or a Flac or Ogg encoder.

can't beat it

 

[Gooberlx2]

I use WMP10 with WMAlossless. Perhaps it sounds "muted" because you have the volume leveling on and it's leveling the volume of some of your music to some of your quieter CDs?

 

[Evander]

as mentioned eac is considered to me the most accurate, but not all that fast.
go here for proper usage:
http://www.chrismyden.com/bestmp3guide.php

for a better speed/performance ratio and ease of use, i use CDex (go here for an unofficial updated version that supports unicode (foreign) characters as well as some other features:
http://www.rarewares.org/others.htm
theres some other good stuff there too if you look arouind

if both give me errors when ripping a stubborn track, i use audiograbber which seems to report ripping without errors, and i dont hear them either.
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

also, let me plug my little page for those who are interested in making low-bitrate encodings at the best quality, using mp4 (from aac plus). it is better than ogg:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/emazur/audio/audio.html

 

[Schadenfroh]

CDex + LAME
open source goodness

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
CDex + LAME
open source goodness

that's what I use

 

[yosuke188]

EAC + Lame
Can't be beat

 

[Thump553]

Another EAC and FLAC fan. If you want to avoid the "music on mute" phenomena, you should be ripping to a lossless format. FLAC is common and open-sourced. There are several other choices as well (SHN, Apple lossless, etc.). If you must degrade your music by ripping to MP3s, at least use LAME with a high bit rate.

It probably takes me ten minutes or so to rip an average CD. Frankly, I don't care how long it takes. I'll play back my (bit-perfect lossless) copies dozens of times for each time I rip one.

BTW, what do people use for playback. I've heard a lot of good things about Foobar but it left me underwhelmed. Currently I'm using MediaMonkey, which I like a lot (especially the beta version).

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: yosuke188
EAC + Lame
Can't be beat

:thumbsup:

BTW, what do people use for playback. I've heard a lot of good things about Foobar but it left me underwhelmed. Currently I'm using MediaMonkey, which I like a lot (especially the beta version).

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