Ripping High quality music from cds? Which program?

noobvious said:

se7ensins said:

zzz2496 said:

I rip my "regular" cds using iTunes, I rip my "special" cds using EAC. The difference is minimal, but noticeable in higher end audio equipment. As far as GUI concerned, I don't think it's something you'd be worried... hint: rip as wav first, then transcode to whatever your preferred format.

zzz2496

Could you possibly post a guide on ripping with eac?

I'm pretty sure this is the guide I used....EAC Guides

Thanks. youtube also has some pretty decent tuts.

se7ensins said:

MilesAhead said:

Believe it or not, even though it hasn't been updated in a bit, this app works in Windows7:

Audiograbber, free CD ripper, mp3 encoder and audio recorder for Windows

The UI is a bit quirky, but if you have a .wma player this will rip CDs to .wav, then you can convert tracks to .wma. I can't detect any difference between .wma @192 and .mp3 @320 except the .wma file is smaller. Great for sticking a lot of tunes on a CD for your car stereo.

I'd be interested in knowing if there is any difference between the 2.
Anybody

Raymond.cc just posted this today: Audio Formats: Comparing and Contrasting the Formats Raymond.CC Blog

kurahk7 said:

se7ensins said:

MilesAhead said:

Believe it or not, even though it hasn't been updated in a bit, this app works in Windows7:

Audiograbber, free CD ripper, mp3 encoder and audio recorder for Windows

The UI is a bit quirky, but if you have a .wma player this will rip CDs to .wav, then you can convert tracks to .wma. I can't detect any difference between .wma @192 and .mp3 @320 except the .wma file is smaller. Great for sticking a lot of tunes on a CD for your car stereo.

I'd be interested in knowing if there is any difference between the 2.
Anybody

Raymond.cc just posted this today: Audio Formats: Comparing and Contrasting the Formats Raymond.CC Blog

informative article. To bad iTunes doesn't support many of those formats.

anybody got a suggestion for a media player?
I tried media monkey. Disgusting interface not to mention the third party plugins rarely work.
Doubletwist didn't support my iPhone which was a bummer cause at least they had a decent interface even if it was ripping off of iTunes.

Arc said:

I want to add something in this discussion .

Generally a music rip may be of two types - lossless and lossy . The common lossless formats for windows are wav and flac , another popular format is apple lossless code. Among them, we may use wav format to rip (it will rip the exact) and if we want something lossy to shrink size, most popular format is mp3.

Both the two are done using WMP12, and nicely.

What about ripping from cd to cd. Is that considered lossy or lossless?

zzz2496 said:

se7ensins said:

Arc said:

I want to add something in this discussion .

Generally a music rip may be of two types - lossless and lossy . The common lossless formats for windows are wav and flac , another popular format is apple lossless code. Among them, we may use wav format to rip (it will rip the exact) and if we want something lossy to shrink size, most popular format is mp3.

Both the two are done using WMP12, and nicely.

What about ripping from cd to cd. Is that considered lossy or lossless?

You don't "rip" CD to CD, you "copy" CD to CD...

zzz2496

Jeeze you know what I mean....The answer to the question is?