Best CD Ripper software

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Im in the process of converting all my CD's to mp3's and I need to know what the best CD Ripper is. Im looking for quility as well as speed. I dont care how big the files are, I just need the best quility. I have bought Winamp pro, but need something better. Any ideas would be appreciated.:)
 
Hi

I am not a specialist, but recently went through the same exercise and did a lot of reading on the subject. I use Audiograbber to rip, and Lame to encode to mp3. Both are considered to be excellent. Both are free to download! :cool:

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
http://tinyurl.com/4w5mb

Here is a link to the basic settings for Audiograbber -

http://www.rockit2000.com/RockItProDJ-AudioGrabberRipping.html

After you download LAME, copy the .dll file to the Windows/System32 folder and Audiograbber will recognise it.

The link above gives you most of the settings to use for AG. The one I changed was to use LAME as the external encoder. Then, in the "argument" section choose "predefined" and add "%s %d --preset standard" as argument. This is a high quality preset standard from LAME, which gives excellent, CD quality sound (to my ears, in any case, and according to other forums I've read) at a decent size. It uses VBR.

I've been ripping a lot and it sounds great over my hi-fi system.

Good luck! :D
 
iTunes lets you set the quality you want as well as the format.

Its fast, free, and easy to use.
 
If you want to archive your songs you should use WAV or lossless FLAC.
FLAC achieves files bigger than Mp3 but they have the full 16bit 44Khz
quality of PCM WAV/AIFF files at about 50-30% of the size.

If you want to rip hard to rip or damaged CDs I'd use ISOBuster.

I think you can find FLAC plugins for Winamp and maybe Itunes
or AudioGrabber.

For MP3 encoding your best bet is LAME.
 
Personally I use iTunes but if you're serious about quality there is only really 1 choice: Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

Here is a wikipedia writeup..

My favourite feature is that it'll rip at high speed 'till it picks up a glitch on your CD and then it'll step down (to 0.1 speed if necessary) in order to get max fidelity. It'll also automatically encode into flac...
 
PeterCH said:
If you want to archive your songs you should use WAV or lossless FLAC.
FLAC achieves files bigger than Mp3 but they have the full 16bit 44Khz
quality of PCM WAV/AIFF files at about 50-30% of the size.
Click to expand...
If he's considering iTunes there is also Apple Lossless.
 
FreeRip works for me. Supports mp3, ogg and FLAC. Also fetches the CD information to populate the ID3 tags.
 
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