I have to quickly rip to MP3 250 CDs. What's the best way?

[BoberFett]

128? 128 sucks.

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: BD2003
He's trying to rip 250 CDs fast, how can you possibly suggest manually ripping and encoding?

RazorLame can do all 250 CD's in one batch. The manual part is switching the Cd's which he will have to do anyway.

You don't even have to do that, you can configure EAC to use Lame & encode as you go. If you're using a high quality setting (like I was) your CPU won't be able to keep up. EAC will set up a queue & continue encoding even after the ripping is done.

Viper GTS

Exactly.

I ripped about 30 CDs to Ogg Vorbis using EAC, and have done it with MP3 and set it up to queue encoding jobs, and with a fast CD drive, you'll be changing CDs every 5-10 mins.

If you need any help with setting it up to do this, just PM me


Confused

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Use whatever gives the best ease of use, quality compromise. You have tons to do so you don't want something thats a pain to use. Your gonna be using them in a car so super dupper quality is not all that important either.

 

[Workin']

I don't recommend using VBR due to it's inconsistency.

WTF are you talking about?

Read the FAQ's for cryin' out loud!

Or else do what Viper GTS has been saying.

Use EAC and LAME. It's no more difficult to use than inferior crappy products and the results are BY FAR the best.

 

[SuperSanta]

Excellent posts everyone. My wife will be using these in the car, but she will have the option to use them in the house too - so I think I will go the route with EAC and LAME. And if I get many done, but not all - atleast I will do her favorites first and do the rest later.

Again, thanks all for your help! This was an extremely informative thread. To the mods, sorry for putting it into the wrong forum. Figured it wasn't that techy a question, hence why I placed it in OT. Didn't realize how technical the question really was!!!

Everyone, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa!
-WC-

 

[SuperSanta]

BTW: r3mix.com had this quote:

"Remark: If EAC doesn't work on your computer (most likely on Win2000 or NT systems), you should try installing an ASPI layer. The best one is from Adaptec, but sadly this only works with adaptec hardware installed. There were cracked distributions called "ForceASPI" and "aspi4all" which do not have these requirements."

My 3 systems are XP Pro. Anyone run into this ASPI error on XP, and if so, what was your fix?

-SS-

PS: The link that held that quote was found at http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/ripping.htm on 12/23/02

 

[Antisocial Virge]

My 3 systems are XP Pro. Anyone run into this ASPI error on XP, and if so, what was your fix?

"ForceASPI" and "aspi4all"

You answered your own question