Fast CD Ripping- opinions please

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I would like to pack several hunderd CD's away in the basement, but need to rip them first before I do that.

Now I do not want to sit here forever ripping CD's, so my question is which CD ripping program (free) is out there that would minimise ripping time?

What else influences ripping time? bitrate? type of drive? processor?

The missus generally uses iTunes (she has a couple of iPOD's) whereas I favour WMP more, but I would gladly use something else seeing as both itunes and WMP are a little slow when it comes to ripping.

Looking forward to hearing 'bout your experiences with ripping programs.

Cheers r
 
I use audiograbber with lame encoder to rip to mp3's. Don't have much experience with anything else.
 
AudioGrabber is good.

Also dBpoweramp. Install FLAC plugin if you want to rip to lossless (mp3 is a lossy format) - takes up about 4 - 5 times as much space as mp3 though.
 
Problem is both my cars can only read the MP3 format, so I am limited to using the MP3 format.

Of course I would like to maintain as much quality as I could but also don't want to sit here forever ripping.

Space is not a problem, time is. :)
 
dBPoweramp will rip anything for you, as long as you have the plugin - I use it for all my MP3 (for the car) and iPod rips - works great and is fairly quick. Ripping to any format that needs encoding will take some time, so if you're looking for a program that rips a CD in 10 seconds, you won't find it... :)

Ripping to a raw format like WAV is the quickest, but you then need lots of space, but then you'll need to re-encode to MP3 or M4A.

If you want to archive digitally to Hard Drive, rip the disc as an ISO - again you need plenty space.
 
rudirautenbach said:
Problem is both my cars can only read the MP3 format, so I am limited to using the MP3 format.

Of course I would like to maintain as much quality as I could but also don't want to sit here forever ripping.

Space is not a problem, time is. :)
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Oh okay.

I ripped a CD to FLAC yesterday with dB and I must say it was pretty damn fast. <10 mins. Got a quad core though, maybe it helps.
 
if you are going to archive the disks, then the only obvious choice of format if flac, no matter how long it takes.

you do not want to do the job again every 5 years when something new come out, and recompressing to different formats the whole time is tedious and loses quality.

just suck it up, rip to flac, store somwhere handy and then convert and copy to whatever format is flavour of the day
 
Mp3 is surely the flavour of the day and has been for as long as i can remember. I use winamp pro and it is really fast.
 
This is gonna be a k@k job.

I tried ripping all my cd's once but eventually got so bored I gave up and this was with two optical drives. I just don't have the patience...
 
...patience is a virtue... :p

If you want to do it right, you need to spend the time on it - do you only have the one PC you can use? Maybe borrow a friend's PC or laptop and use them both?
 
Have you try Windows Media Player (9,10 or 11) rips cd's quite fast.

It's for free
 
howardb said:
...patience is a virtue... :p

If you want to do it right, you need to spend the time on it - do you only have the one PC you can use? Maybe borrow a friend's PC or laptop and use them both?
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or a virgin :p

I have a laptop as well and a older PC in the cupboard.

I actually think the best bet would be to build a tower full of sata optical drives and rip like 6 cd's at once on a quadcore cpu and then do the encoding at a later stage as a single batch job. Will cost a bit of money though.
 
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