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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Wed May 16, 2012 8:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ripping CDs? |
Okay, so I've got a new phone coming in, and will probably be taking the opportunity of it not having a microSD slot to freshen up my CD rips which, I think I've mentioned before, are sprinkled with maddening glitches on a few tracks. I also haven't bothered installing iTunes on my new (well, since the last time I did my own rips) computer, so it's not just "handy" as a default option. I prefer to rip at a 160-192 (uh.. I can never remember for sure... kilo-?)bitrate Does anybody have any recommendations for a good freeware program that'll rip CDs to mp3 quickly and cleanly? Bonus points for auto-populating track & album metadata. |
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| Author: | Shelgeyr [ Wed May 16, 2012 9:17 pm ] |
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I use Windows Media Player. |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Wed May 16, 2012 11:30 pm ] |
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Okay, wow. Problem solved beyond my wildest expectations. It's not speedy (it's ripping at ~5x right now), but it's good at catching and correcting errors. And that means it's faster than proofing each track by ear. |
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| Author: | Stathol [ Wed May 16, 2012 11:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ripping CDs? |
This is on Windows, I assume? Probably nothing will ever beat EAC + LAME. EAC is both very sophisticated and easy to use. It is especially good for trying to rip from problem discs/tracks. It can query online databases to fetch all of the album information. And I do mean all. This can (optionally) include cover art and lyrics. It stuffs the lryics into an Lyrics3v2 tag, which I had no idea even existed until now. I'm not sure if there's even any players that use this information (VLC doesn't seem to, FWIW), but its neat nonetheless. A note on EAC's default encoding options for LAME: Since EAC defaults to using "--vbr-new", the "Bit rate" dropdown actually has no effect. If you have "High Quality" selected, it will encode with the "-V 2" quality setting (~190 kbps VBR). If you have "Low Quality" selected, it will encode with "-V 5" (~150 kbps VBR). It's pretty well accepted that anything beyond -V 2 is like buying $300 gold plated audio cables. And it's pretty debatable whether -V 2 really offers any statistically significant benefit over -V 3. Even at -V 5, most people will have a hard time distinguishing between MP3 and uncompressed original. At the same time, I don't doubt that you can get a slight "castanets" effect (pre-echo on strong impulses like high-hat hits) at -V 5 that won't be audible at -V 3 or better. Personally, the only thing I might change is bumping the high quality setting down to -V 3. It would be somewhat closer to your target bitrate range, since -V 2 would lay on the upper edge thereof. In other words, change the "Additional command-line options" to: Code: %islow%-V 5%islow%%ishigh%-V 3%ishigh% --vbr-new %source% %dest%
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Thu May 17, 2012 7:35 am ] |
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Yeah, EAC is what was recommended to me. It's already fixed one of the songs I knew I had a glitch on from ripping with iTunes. Thanks for the heads-up on the command line options overriding the bitrate dropdown. I only got ripped the one test CD last night, so not much backtrack work to keep consistency. |
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| Author: | Darkroland [ Thu May 17, 2012 8:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ripping CDs? |
I also vote for EAC and LAME, I have ripped hundreds (if not thousands) of CD's (converted my entire collection to lossless a few years ago) and it's always caught any disc read errors. |
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