best precision and quality ripping software needed for music teacher

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

Hey peeps,

I've got a customer who runs a music franchise where they develope musical skills ect.

They receive audio cds from Europe , and don't want to wear out the cds quickly....

How can i without listening to each track after ripping with Nero8 - get a quick solution that works nicely?

I've heard about EAC - but that needs custom fine tuning.

I'm using nero at slowest read speed with the tick box disabled at ignore audio bad sectors/blocks.

Just need to save time

 

[greggpb]

wav ?

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

i want something that does proper verification/error/jitter correction..

i'm not worried about output format type.

i've done ripping in past with nero8 - slow/fast speeds - with some jitters happening.

 

[gifs]

Use EAC, you don't need much custom fine tuning, it is might be a little tricky to use but nothing serious and the quality is excellent. Have a look at this thread and if you have any questions I'm sure someone from the avforums.co.za will be able to help.

http://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,1408.msg16401.html#msg16401

 

[d0b33]

I rip with iTunes and just tick error correction, no probs

 

[wmaker]

i'm not worried about output format type.

Output format type affects quality, so as greggpb said: no compression like wav will be best quality?

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

nee...i'm worried about input quality...not output..as it is ALWAYS going to be .wav raw anyhow...


EAC only rips at 2.5x ....that a BIT wee long

 

[Gnome]

nee...i'm worried about input quality...not output..as it is ALWAYS going to be .wav raw anyhow...


EAC only rips at 2.5x ....that a BIT wee long

EAC is the only option for complete accuracy.

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

It's THE audio enthusiast encoding community online (what doom9.org is to video encoding) and that is the link to their wiki.

You'll find guides there. Rather use FLAC than WAV uses less space and it's lossless also.

Btw. for a copy that's as close to 100% perfect as possible look at the following EAC Guides:

* EAC Drive Options
* EAC and Cue Sheets

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

many thanks!

 

[Gnome]

many thanks!

Btw. If CUE sheets don't make sense to you also look at the:

* EAC Lossless Backup

Section of EAC. Forgot to mention the guides I'm talking about are all located under, Guides -> EAC Guides.

 

[HavocXphere]

Most people who are fussy about output quality use FLAC.

I doubt that anyone can hear any difference above 256kbps on mp3s though.

 

[Gnome]

Most people who are fussy about output quality use FLAC.

I doubt that anyone can hear any difference above 256kbps on mp3s though.

True but for backup purposes it's preferable to keep audio lossless in my opinion (the amount of space lost isn't that much compared to hard-drive sizes these days), lossy format popularity changes, AAC seems to be gaining a lot of ground these days, especially for portables, and if all your audio is encoded in MP3 you lose quality when transcoding.