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Started by mink_trapper Jan 28, 2004 at 8:21 PM 17 replies 1.2k views
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mink_trapper
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HELLO PEOPLE!!!! I need to know if there is any free cd ripping software. No, im not trying to rip my cd''s to put the songs on kazaa or anything, i just hate running all my music off of CD''s, my cd drive is sorta loud. and i would assume that the life of my cd player would last longer if it werent running so much. Thanks for any help! ______________________________________________________________ "It takes all kinds." -Adam Carolla My Site
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llyod
llyod
CD to MP3?

LAME with EAC works wonders.

Avoid 128kbs like the plague. Use 192kbs and up for great results.
Promit
Promit
I use MusicMatch Jukebox.

I think MusicMatch Jukebox is evil. But then, I feel the same way about iTunes, Win Media Player, WinAmp, Quicktime, and just about every other existing media player on earth, except maybe XMMS.
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krikkit
krikkit
EAC - Exact Audio Copy. Good stuff.
smart_idiot
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If you''re going to rip your own CDs you might as well do it right the first time and encode them with Ogg Vorbis.
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Promit
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quote:
Original post by smart_idiot
If you''re going to rip your own CDs you might as well do it right the first time and encode them with Ogg Vorbis.


Show me a portable player that plays Ogg Vorbis CDs, seriously.
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mink_trapper
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wow, is there anything you people dont know, Thanks a bunch, i ended up using EAC.

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fisheyel83l
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I use FreeRIP2. Which of these rippers deduces track titles the best? Or does that sort of thing vary from CD to CD?


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quote:
Original post by Promit
Show me a portable player that plays Ogg Vorbis CDs, seriously.


Plenty of portable ogg players exist, and here''s one that plans to play them off CDs with a firmware upgrade.

But I don''t have a portable player anyway, so that sort of thing doesn''t worry me. Vorbis rules.

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quote:
Original post by Promit
Show me a portable player that plays Ogg Vorbis CDs, seriously.

You said "seriously": iHP-120. I''m pretty sure there are one or two more, but I haven''t memorized their names (I don''t really feel a need to buy that sort of thing, after all) and that''s the first thing Google turned up.

Like others have said: If you''re ripping CDs in Windows go with CDex. In *nix anything that embeds cdparanoia is great; Grip, SoundJuicer, or just the command line cdparanoia program (it''s perfectly simple to use), et cetera.

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Original post by fisheyel83l
Which of these rippers deduces track titles the best? Or does that sort of thing vary from CD to CD?

Depends on which CD database the program uses. To be honest, I have no idea which CD database is the best. Most of them will be "close enough" and you can tweak capitalization, puncuation, or any little things that aren''t exactly like the CD''s case''s titles.

amish1234
amish1234
quote:
Original post by llyod
CD to MP3?

LAME with EAC works wonders.

Avoid 128kbs like the plague. Use 192kbs and up for great results.


Definately do use EAC and LAME, but use "-alt preset standard" as the command line parameter. This makes LAME use variable bitrate (VBR) encoding with an average of about 192. Unless, of course, you have shitty speakers or are completely tone deaf. Then you can just use 128 kbps.

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Aerolithe
Aerolithe
Another vote towards CDex, open source and worked great for all of the one cds I''ve used it on.
Wolfmanyoda
Wolfmanyoda
Easy CD-DA Extractor
Quite simple to use. Also converts audio formats and burns them to a disc.
Can''t comment on the burning part, never used it. But the ripper is great.

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benryves
benryves
CDex is okay, but nothing beats WMP9.
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