CD Ripping
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Truth of the matter is, most headphones can't reproduce and people can't hear the difference between 128K bps and 320K VBR.
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I'll probably get 'ripped' for this, but why not use iTunes? Even if you don't own an iPod, it does a perfectly reasonable job of ripping CD's. For that matter, what about Windows Media Player?
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CDex works for me.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
I strongly recommend Exact Audio Copy[^] for ripping your CDs to WAV. You can use Audacity[^] to drive LAME[^] to convert them to MP3. I recommend using a 320K constant bit rate. If you're willing to pay, I recommend buying a program that uses the Fraunhofer[^] encoder. /ravi
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I just downloaded and tried it. Didn't work for me. It claimed to have ripped a CD to "C:\Program Files (x86)\CDex\my music\..." -- however the folder doesn't exist. So forget that one if you're running Windows 7 64-bit or whatever.
Just configure it to write to somewhere that it actually has permission to write to and you should be fine. FWIW: the actual files it wrote can probably be found somewhere off of C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\ (or click the "Compatibility Files" button after browsing to c:\program files (x86)\CDex) - like many older programs, FS access will be virtualized on Win7.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
many portable MP3 players come with software that rips CDs along with a music manager ala iPod support in iTunes (the package from Creative comes to mind)
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I just downloaded and tried it. Didn't work for me. It claimed to have ripped a CD to "C:\Program Files (x86)\CDex\my music\..." -- however the folder doesn't exist. So forget that one if you're running Windows 7 64-bit or whatever.
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many portable MP3 players come with software that rips CDs along with a music manager ala iPod support in iTunes (the package from Creative comes to mind)
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I don't have a portable MP3 (or whatever) player. I've got a sound system hooked up to my computer in my home office that will blow my ears using less effort.
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As Shog said, write to an accessible directory. I use in under Windows 7 64-bit fine.
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As I mentioned, who would have thought that Windows Media Player 12 can rip to 320K in MP3 format, snagging the song titles and album artwork. It works good enough for me. CDex, aside from technical issues, and I'm not sure how to say this -- but it sucks -- in particular I hate UIs that suck. Thanks though.
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As I mentioned, who would have thought that Windows Media Player 12 can rip to 320K in MP3 format, snagging the song titles and album artwork. It works good enough for me. CDex, aside from technical issues, and I'm not sure how to say this -- but it sucks -- in particular I hate UIs that suck. Thanks though.
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I'll probably get 'ripped' for this, but why not use iTunes? Even if you don't own an iPod, it does a perfectly reasonable job of ripping CD's. For that matter, what about Windows Media Player?
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Far be it from me to tout WMP as a music player, but it does a good job of ripping to MP3.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
FreeRip does a good job.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
I completely agree with Kelly Herald. AudioGrabber is hasslefree and does what it's supposed to do, nothing else. It's also immune to so called "copy protection" as it simply only reads audio data.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
CDEx works great
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As I mentioned, who would have thought that Windows Media Player 12 can rip to 320K in MP3 format, snagging the song titles and album artwork. It works good enough for me. CDex, aside from technical issues, and I'm not sure how to say this -- but it sucks -- in particular I hate UIs that suck. Thanks though.
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CDex, aside from technical issues, and I'm not sure how to say this -- but it sucks -- in particular I hate UIs that suck.
Agree about the UI; but it was able to rip one CD that WMP wasn't because of DRM crap: As far as win7 was concerned it was a data disk with no audio tracks.
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CDEx works great
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Perhaps -- other than the fact it doesn't work on W7 64 "out of the box", the UI sucks, and when you uninstall it, it doesn't completely uninstall (at least in my case). I don't like stuff hanging around on my Start menu for no reason, nor folders existing for no reason, nor files or temporary files left about for no reason. WMP12 included with W7 64 worked quite fine. It rips an entire CD to 320K MP3 files in about a minute or two, has the proper album name and song titles and artwork. I didn't realize it would do that (I thought MS was stuck in WMA-land) so didn't try it until a couple of the above suggestions. Works good enough for me. Thanks everyone for all of the input though.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
I use BonkEnc[^] after it got a good review in a general comparison, beating CDEx. It does multiple formats and converts between them...handy if you've got an itunes aac or flac format file. No ads/malware, shove the disk in, wait for it to grab the track names and hit go. I found that EAC is just too fiddly for an occasional use app. I tend to use high quality VBR, more space efficient than 320cbr. For a library/player for those without ipod's, then Winamp is probably still the best. If you do have an ipod then unfortunatly itunes is still the best at managing it, it just sucks at everything else.
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I've got a giant stack of audio CDs that I've purchased over the years, and I would simply like to convert them into MP3 format (high-quality 384K or whatever). Any suggestions as to what the best product available is to do this with? I don't care what it costs, I just want to listen to my music on my computer -- and I don't want to deal with any shady companies shoving malware or adware or whatever down my throat. Thanks in advance for the advice.
Don't they all do it? WMP rips (although its default file type is Win media, and I'm not sure what quality levels it allows). CDex, which I used to use, has already been mentioned, but now I do it all with Quintessential media playe[^], which rips to any file type and any quality (and you only have to install the converters you need).
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