Does anyone know a good cd-ripper?

[Leon]

The Creative Cd-ripper that came with my mp3-player kinda sucks. You get all kinds of small glitches and clicks. ARGH!
Does anyone have a ripper that's flawless?

[sanblaster]

CdEx



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[Jason Roth]

I heard Tiesto can rip it sick.

[Eikman]

there is only one way to go if you want quality:

EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) (secure mode) in combination with Lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) (--preset extreme)

[dubman]

there is only one way to go if you want quality:

EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) (secure mode) in combination with Lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) (--preset extreme)

dude...!

what about i-tunes.

the guy just sounds like he needs something functional first before getting near 1140 quality

[Eikman]

itunes, cock.

[dubman]

itunes, cock.

i'm resisting its inception as being a word accepted in common lexicon... uh, dick.

like kleenex, or band-aid.

the apple brand is something to which no quarter should be given more than it's allowed in our cultural consciousness.

YOU TURD.

[BrotherLovesDub]

personally, i've burned several hundred discs with iTunes and have never had a problem. i also use Toast 7 when i need to burn dj mixes or do direct disc image copies. rarely have probs with Toast and the serial numbers are easy to get. i'd like to hear someone who doesn't like iTunes and who actually uses it or has used it extensively to say why they think it sucks.

Leon, if you want a free solution, use itunes unless the majority of what you're burning is DJ mixes seperated into diff. tracks, then iTunes always puts a tiny gap between the songs even when set to 0. you could get around this by joining tracks but thats a pain. Download Toast and then google for Toast Serial Hack or something like that and you'll be on your way.

[m.g.]

Download Toast and then google for Toast Serial Hack or something like that and you'll be on your way. :eek::eek::eek: hack? serial? what is it???!!! ;)

I never had any problem using iTunes or Toast (both used very intensively) & they're both very easy to handle...

[Eikman]

personally, i've burned several hundred discs with iTunes and have never had a problem. i also use Toast 7 when i need to burn dj mixes or do direct disc image copies. rarely have probs with Toast and the serial numbers are easy to get. i'd like to hear someone who doesn't like iTunes and who actually uses it or has used it extensively to say why they think it sucks.


the question, however, is not about BURNING, but rather about ENCODING audio cds to mp3, the other way around ;)

[BrotherLovesDub]

oops. suppose i could actually read the thread before replying.

guess it's more fuel for the fire. will i see that post spit back at me when the angry mob makes their case in front of the judge? hopefully Janie will represent me with her hemp soaked hands.

[Eikman]

hehehehe...

[patrick]

itunes is pretty good as if you are doing lots you can have it start on cd insert and spit them out when it's done... yay for automation


also, i used to have a lame set up when i cared but now i realize if i am burning to mp3 then i don't reallly care too much about the quality (as i have the cd or if i'm burning a friends i do lossless normally)

[stimpee]

PC:
EasyCDDA (very good, but not free!)
EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) (freeware)
WinAmp (http://www.winamp.com/player/) (speed limited in non-pro version)
Audiograbber (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/) (now freeware)

Mac:
Max (http://sbooth.org/Max/) (free, recommended)
iTunes (free)
Toast (very good, but not free!)

[patrick]

PC:
EasyCDDA (very good, but not free!)
EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) (freeware)
WinAmp (http://www.winamp.com/player/) (speed limited in non-pro version)
Audiograbber (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/) (now freeware)

Mac:
Max (http://sbooth.org/Max/) (free, recommended)
iTunes (free)
Toast (very good, but not free!)
once again: amazing post from an amazing man

[Ally]

itunes, cock.

Love it :D

[viddy]

The Creative Cd-ripper that came with my mp3-player kinda sucks. You get all kinds of small glitches and clicks. ARGH!
Does anyone have a ripper that's flawless?

This likely to happen in every bit of software you use to rip an audio CD, unless you change the speed at which you rip a CD. If you are able to change this speed, for the troubled discs, set it to rip a CD at 1x. This fixes errors much of the time because it is reading the CD more carefully at a slower speed. This goes for burning CDs as well; if you want really accurate CD burns, write at the slowest speed you can tolerate.

But I do agree, that not every piece of software rips a CD with the same quality. So try a few different ones.

[stimpee]

But I do agree, that not every piece of software rips a CD with the same quality. So try a few different ones.Software from Creative is notoriously buggy, sluggish, bloated and generally shite tho. But youre right with the ripping at lower speeds thing. My CD-RW drive rips better than my DVD-RW and rips those protected CDs with ease. Avoiding all Creative hardware and software will save you a lot of bother though.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Software from Creative is notoriously buggy, sluggish, bloated and generally shite tho. But youre right with the ripping at lower speeds thing. My CD-RW drive rips better than my DVD-RW and rips those protected CDs with ease. Avoiding all Creative hardware and software will save you a lot of bother though.
Oh be quiet!

Grrr! ;)



(although I get all mine for free, so it would be churlish to complain)

[viddy]

Software from Creative is notoriously buggy, sluggish, bloated and generally shite tho. But youre right with the ripping at lower speeds thing. My CD-RW drive rips better than my DVD-RW and rips those protected CDs with ease. Avoiding all Creative hardware and software will save you a lot of bother though.
Just to share my opinion and defend Creative; I've had a Creative Sound Blaster Extigy for a little over 3 years and it's always worked perfectly as it should. Besides the reciever I use to power my sound system, the Extigy has been at the heart of my home studio. It is the hub for all of my audio ins and outs and has worked great doing so. My MBox, television, and Ipod are connected to it, and the 6 channel outputs allow me to mix music and film projects in 5.1 surround sound (using Acid Pro). In my opinion not everything Creative is crap.

[Drix]

I put my vote on EAC with Lame.. can't get better and not really hard to understand either.

[spacefish]

I use Audiograbber (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/). Love it.