What is a good free cd mp3 ripper to use?

[Thoreau]

CDEX all the way!

 

[Kanalua]

Once and for all...EAC with LAME

 

[Supermercado]

EAC for ripping, LAME for encoding.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
EAC for ripping, LAME for encoding.

 

[dman]

EAC is kludgy and slow, but, it works.

Not free, but, AudioCatalyst is much faster at ripping and encoding w/ same quality settings.

I blame it on LAME mostly... just my experience. Could be I'm not using an optomized version of LAME or something.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: dman
EAC is kludgy and slow, but, it works.

Not free, but, AudioCatalyst is much faster at ripping and encoding w/ same quality settings.

I blame it on LAME mostly... just my experience. Could be I'm not using an optomized version of LAME or something.

EAC slow and kludgy? It flies on my dual XP1800+

 

[CraigRT]

CDEX fo sho.. excellent software, has all the right codecs, (LAME).. and its free.

there is nothing else

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: minendo
EAC with Lame.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: PliotronX

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: Legendary
Another vote for EAC.

:heart:

 

[brxndxn]

EAC is kludgy and slow, but, it works.

Not free, but, AudioCatalyst is much faster at ripping and encoding w/ same quality settings.

I blame it on LAME mostly... just my experience. Could be I'm not using an optomized version of LAME or something.

Get some higher quality speakers and you'll notice that AudioCatalyst totally screws up the higher end of the audio spectrum. It basically adds noise.

AudioGrabber is the program to use so you can still use the Lame ENC.. But, no way in hell you should be recommending AudioCatalyst to anyone. I don't care if you have it set at 320kbps and HQ, it will put noise in it.

Horrible recommendation. Who cares if it only takes 35 seconds to rip an entire CD if the entire CD sounds sh!tty.