Ripping Music

[Jahee]

What program do you lot use to rip music to your computer in MP3 format? I use Creative Playcenter but for some reason Playcenter isnt getting the CDDB information for my albums, any other recommendations?

 

[aircooled]

CDex with LAME works well.

 

[Schadenfroh]

CDex / LAME

 

[biggestmuff]

EAC + LAME.

I also use WMP with one of the MP3 codecs I purchased through Microsoft's site. It's incredibly easy to rip with this setup with little user intervention.

 

[TUKIN18S]

K.R.A.C. Free CD ripper

http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/Free_CD_Ripper__KRAC/4-123568-3.html

 

[Jahee]

Does CDEX have CDDB support because im not going through all my albums making tags and filenames! lol

also whats LAME?

 

[eLiTeGoodGuy]

I've just used WMP with the mp3 option selected. Never given me any problems

 

[mrSHEiK124]

EAC with LAME

 

[Jahee]

Just downloaded CD-EX, seems like a good little program... efficient! Thanks

 

[Mucho]

Audiograbber

 

[potato28]

Foobar2k

 

[bjp999]

1. EAC with AccurateRip.
2. Convert to lossless with WavPack.
3. Set tags from filename (and clean up tags) with Tag&Rename
4. MP3 encode using Foobar2000 (which will automatically copy tags from the WavPack files to the MP3 files as it goes). Foobar2000 uses Lame (or the encoder of your choice) behind the scenes.

AccurateRip checks ripping results against a database and lets you know if your RIP was perfect or not. Lets me rip in burst mode (which is usually perfect, but occasionally not) which is 3-4x faster than the normal ripping speed. If I get a bad result on a track, I just rerip that one track (once every 20 CDs or so). YMMV depending on your drive.

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: Jahee
Does CDEX have CDDB support because im not going through all my albums making tags and filenames! lol

also whats LAME?

Yep.

LAME, just google. Its the first link.

 

[daniel1113]

EAC + LAME

The last mp3 ripper/encoder you will ever need.

 

[Sureshot324]

CDex + Lame, but it has trouble with certain types of copy protection.

 

[FeuerFrei]

EAC + LAME = ♥

 

[KoolDrew]

EAC + LAME

 

[BoberFett]

EAC + FLAC

Regardless of your format, use EAC to rip.

 

[corkyg]

Audiograbber w/RazorLame

 

[CKent]

EAC -> ogg/vorbis 192 or flac, using dBpoweramp

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

itunes

 

[Frodolives]

I've been a faithful Cdex user for years, but started using BonkEnc a while back. Everything is added for you right out of the gate. Ogg, FLAC, AAC, LAME and so on.

Check it out! http://www.bonkenc.org/