Ye ol' "ripping my CD collection" thread

[CKent]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: CKent
Mp3 is old and outdated. Ogg-vorbis, aac and wma are all more modern and sound better at a given bitrate. I'll concede that installing linux on the ps3 just to play ogg files is a bit extreme, but then, both linux and consoles are stupid anyway. Most portable players can (and should) be rockboxed, meaning ogg-vorbis has plenty of portable support.

As for DRM, I just assumed anything related to Apple will have gobs of it.

Just because its newer does not make it better. There's plenty of sound quality to be found in LAME encoded MP3s, so that's not even an issue. The comment about consoles being stupid, well, I'm not even going to think about. I completely disagree about Rockbox (and again, not all portables are able to be Rockboxed, so that could make it a moot point anyways).

:roll: for the Apple comment.

Your definition of good sound quality is... what, 128kb nickelback mp3s through your iBuds?

Even at 320kb, the mp3 format falls a bit short, notably on the highs and of course in good recordings (garbage in, garbage out applies to all the many, many bad recordings out there). And of course the same differences apply at lower bitrates, where you can fit more music of the same quality with a newer codec, or the same amount in higher quality if you prefer.

Rockbox is GREAT. What's not to like about software that allows support for more filetypes and allows you to load the thing in a file manager like every other portable mp3 player?

Don't even get me started on Crapple.

 

[scootermaster]

Great thread hijack guys! One of the best I've seen in awhile.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: CKent

Your definition of good sound quality is... what, 128kb nickelback mp3s through your iBuds?

Even at 320kb, the mp3 format falls a bit short, notably on the highs and of course in good recordings (garbage in, garbage out applies to all the many, many bad recordings out there). And of course the same differences apply at lower bitrates, where you can fit more music of the same quality with a newer codec, or the same amount in higher quality if you prefer.

Rockbox is GREAT. What's not to like about software that allows support for more filetypes and allows you to load the thing in a file manager like every other portable mp3 player?

Don't even get me started on Crapple.

I'm not even going to bother trying to discuss it with you, as you're clearly wanting some sort of an argument where I don't really see one.

I do have to say though, I find your fervor for Rockbox and against Linux to be strange.

Oh, and FWIW, I listen to either FLAC or original CDs on home equipment (currently searching for a decent quality DAC and headphone amp to go with my Denon D2000s), but nice failed attempt at a personal attack anyways.

OP, sorry for derailing your thread, I've offered about as much advice as I can (LAME MP3 or well encoded AAC is likely your best choice, at least in my opinion).

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Great thread hijack guys! One of the best I've seen in awhile.

Lol. I still think you should rip to FLAC for archiving/home playback and then to mp3 for portable use (--alt preset standard ~200kbps ought to be sufficient for iPods and whatever unless you care THAT much). FLAC is nice because you never have to touch the CD again (unless you want to play it in a normal CD player). No second thoughts of re-ripping or anything.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Great thread hijack guys! One of the best I've seen in awhile.

Thanks, I try

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
I do have to say though, I find your fervor for Rockbox and against Linux to be strange.

Rockbox works and improves a subpar product, the ipod.

Linux just fried my storage drive, and no it wasn't user error or 'natural causes'.

 

[kalrith]

I have a related question. I want to rip my CDs to lossless for my hard drive, but want them to be 192k for my iPod. It's 4GB, and that just doesn't hold much in the lossless format. Does anyone know of a good way to do this?

Thanks!

 

[jalaram]

Is dbPowerAmp's ripper as good as EAC? I've heard good things about it and it's only ~$40 IIRC. However, I want the rips to be excellent.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: kalrith
I have a related question. I want to rip my CDs to lossless for my hard drive, but want them to be 192k for my iPod. It's 4GB, and that just doesn't hold much in the lossless format. Does anyone know of a good way to do this?

Thanks!

I have a 4gb ipod too, I just manually convert them to q6 ogg-vorbis (~192kb) and delete them once they're copied to the ipod. It's not hard to fill up 4gb, especially when usually ~25% of that is State of Trance episodes, which ar already in 192kb mp3.

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: jalaram
Is dbPowerAmp's ripper as good as EAC? I've heard good things about it and it's only ~$40 IIRC. However, I want the rips to be excellent.

I don't think it's as good. EAC is the best and it's also free...

 

[Arkaign]

I do 192kbit for general use MP3, and 320kbit for classical/opera MP3s, using LAME codec. No quality issues here, but I'm not really an audio fanatic anyway. Good thing about MP3 = the files work on damn near anything.