What's the best CD ripping software? - Page 2

Eac/ flac/ Foobar.......
Edited by citizen arcane - 12/26/12 at 1:15pm

dbPoweramp. In addition to everything above, it gives you accuracy results by comparing with other rips of the same music. So if you rip, no errors, and 5 or 10 or 50 other people had the exact same rip you know you have no errors.

I rip ALAC straight into the iTunes auto add folder on a NAS (Network Attached Storage, ReadyNAS brand). Squeeze Server runs on the NAS and serves it up to my receiver. Lazy iTunes purchases go straight into iTunes.

EAC is best if you want a free solution.
dBpoweramp is the best option available.

If you are ripping more than say 10-20 discs, or are ripping your entire library for archival purposes and need to guarantee your rips are perfect, I would say it's well worth spending the money on dBpoweramp. It's not that expensive, especially if you price it out on a per-disc basis.


And don't rip to anything other than FLAC or ALAC. If you are ripping to lossy files, you will end up having to re-rip them again at some point in the future. Do the job right once. Both FLAC and ALAC are completely lossless, and have good metadata support. I use ALAC because it is more compatible with the devices I use. Other people use FLAC for similar reasons. That's the only reason to choose one over the other, the quality is identical.

I ripped using Jet audio by Cowon and then checked samples using the foobar verifier and some other checking device (can't remember anymore) about three years ago.
EAC was too time consuming, and jet audio was free and did a fine job ripping to flac. I transferred to several harddrives almost two-thousand Cds in about three month.
I also did a final backup of all the flac files onto about twenty five double sided bluray discs.
Edited by kraut - 2/12/13 at 4:27pm

I now believe in over redundancy in backing up files. I gather lots of my digital music by trades with used CD stores. Not only do I travel a distance to do so but would be darn well impossible to replace my collection over the period of time I've been doing this. I learned the hard way when I lost a 320 G HD quite some years back and had no back up. I now have my collection backed up over three additional HDs (one stashed at a friend's) and as I type this I'm considering another to place in my safe deposit box - storage media is cheap.

I have the bluray disc stored the the bank's safety deposit box.

At present I run a four hard-drive raid 5 backup unit, files are on the computer hard drive and a tertiary removable 2 TB hard drive - almost full.
Those will be at the house at all times, a fourth one will be stored also at the bank, and regularly swapped with an updatet hard drive from the home.
Once every two years I also will reburn everything to new bluray discs - or to solid state drives should they become more affordable.

I still have my Cds stored in several boxes at the house, in a cool dry space.

Citizen--

What back-up program do you use? I've not liked the ones I've tried so far.

Old school here - wish I a had a system like kraut. I just drag 'n' drop in Windows; just have to remember to do it to all my drives after make I make music runs
Edited by citizen arcane - 2/14/13 at 6:21pm

Is the bunker in which you store the CDs temperature controlled and maintained at a constant humidity? If not, you're a reckless bastaRd with your music collection.

I think I'm the bastard kind...my living room is under an open beam ceiling, and I put kneewalls up 4' high where the roof meets the floor with access doors - cool and always dry space. There I store our emergency food supply and the CD's...

Wow I had no idea dbpoweramp can do this. Do any other ripping software do this sort of thing?

I used cowon by jet audio (or the other way round) to rip from two CD rom drives.
It is free so compression level is fixed.
Now I use just foobar to rip. Only a few CD's per month...

That's the system I was using. Unfortunately, I too often forget to do it. I guess I just need to try more programs (using free trial version) until I find one I like.

What do you all use for Mac computers?

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Edited by kraut - 3/5/13 at 9:15pm

XLD

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=XLD

anybody here tried winamp for flac ripping? is it any good compared to dbpoweramp?

Xld has worked great for me!