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ripping cd's to mp3 or???
by mongo316 - 7/16/06 6:41 AMI'm in the process of ripping a lot of cd's (thousands) and I am trying to find the best, most efficient way to accomplish this. I am soliciting advice on naming and storage conventions, software, mp3 quality etc.. even pointing me to documentation would be great.. Do you know of any good web sites?
iTunes
by adkinsjm - 7/16/06 12:15 PM In reply to: ripping cd's to mp3 or??? by mongo316Just use iTunes, the tags seem to be accurate when it is able to get the cd info. I say 128kbs is good enough quality, but others may disagree. iTunes is good because the music is stored into folders for each artist and then a seperate folder for each album. Other software does this as well.
I'm in the process of doing this too
by alpabarot - 7/17/06 11:44 AM In reply to: ripping cd's to mp3 or??? by mongo316I want to rip my CDs into a great sounding format complete with tags, embedded cover art and my song ratings.
So far I've settled on MusicMatch Jukebox Plus 10 ($20) to rip mp3s using VBR at 67% (approx 160 kbps).
MusicMatch tag editing is good and super tagging is working for the common titles but I'm not convinced it's what I should be using. Warning: after the first year super tagging requires an annual service fee
After ripping about 20 CDs my wish list has changed a little bit. I now want a ripper that:
-Uses error correction while ripping
I can't find this option in MusicMatch so I'm using GuerillaSoft's EncSpot (http://www.guerillasoft.co.uk/encspot/download.html), the file size and my ear to find any encoding errors.
-Automatically search and downloads titles, tags and album art
-Creates cross-media player compatible tags
Ex. ratings, album art, etc
-Volume normalization
MusicMatch has a proprietary way to do this
-Doesn’t use Joint Stereo
I’m not sure if MusicMatch does this
After doing some more googling I am considering MediaMonkey. I haven't tried it yet but it looks like the free standard version does most of what MusicMatch Jukebox Plus does. I'm just not sure how well it does it.
You can buy the gold version for $20 or go with the free standard version and replace the time-limited mp3 encoder with the free LAME encoder dll (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Lame_Encoder.htm).
Hope that helps... I know I'm still confused.
James and Veronica, I've abandoned podcasts for a bit now but this sounds like a great topic.
Thanks for the tips...
by mongo316 - 7/17/06 8:01 PM In reply to: I'm in the process of doing this too by alpabarotI purchased the Nero7 Ultra edition and haven't been all that thrilled with it. I'm attempting to build folders with all of the artist then sub-folding into Title. It is quite time consuming and I'm wondering if it is a waste of my time considering all of the track information is stored in the track itself. My ultimate goal is to build a music database with artist, track, genre, owner, etc. For some reason I think I can do this better than Itunes.. sell my software and live the good life..
I need to do more research. thanks for the primer though
windows media player 11
by Boomstickedition - 9/9/08 3:54 AM In reply to: Thanks for the tips... by mongo316Love it or hate it but Windows Media Player 11 is great for ripping cds and converting it to MP3 or wma lossless. It also creates the folders for you for the artist and the albums for you so you do not have go through the hassle of doing all that.
WMP11
by docq1001 - 12/10/08 8:52 AM In reply to: windows media player 11 by BoomstickeditionI agree that WMP11 is easy to use. I just pop in my CD and click rip, and it starts without any issue.
Creates the folder, grabs all the propper info and it's done and on my zune within a few minutes.
I'm changing my opinion on MusicMatch
by alpabarot - 7/20/06 6:43 PM In reply to: ripping cd's to mp3 or??? by mongo316It's too much of a memory hog and too unstable to use. I'm investigating Media Monkey.
MediaMonkey has been treating me right
by alpabarot - 8/5/06 10:12 AM In reply to: ripping cd's to mp3 or??? by mongo316now I just bought a track from iTunes and trying to find a way to burn it to CD to enjoy in my car is another aggravation.
RE: ripping cd's to mp3 or???
by bishop8001 - 8/31/08 7:36 AM In reply to: ripping cd's to mp3 or??? by mongo316Don't use iTunes whatever you do. The rips are not accurate and clicks and imperfections can and will creep into your rips.
Follow the walk through at uberstandard.org to setup exact audio copy. Perfect rips every time, and with all free software.
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