Good Free progam to rip CD's to MP3?

Zascar

Windows Media Player is really not doing it for me, wrong track names and bad naming etc. Need an alternative.

Can anyone recommend something that does the job easily? All I want is to rip a few CD's to mp3 in 256kbs, downlaod correct tracklistings and name then "01 - Artist Name - Track Name" - that's it.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Wertz

CDex and the LAME codec

leche solara

Agree with Wertz. You could try DBPoweramp too.

falteringstar

......iTunes

DemonOfTheFall

EAC with whatever the latest stable version of LAME is. Ain't nothin better.

quintron

'nother recommendation here for CDex w/ Lame...

Orion

iTUnes? Are you mental?

CDEX works great - been using it for a long time now.

TempestSabre

EAC is the best, but I just like using Audiograbber and Lame. Its just simpler. I use Mediamonkey to manage and play the files, retag them, and rename them as required.

Mec-a-nic

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

EAC with whatever the latest stable version of LAME is. Ain't nothin better.

I agree, and it's all free/open sauce. Here's a step-by-step guide with links on how to set it up. A little work, but the results ensure you never get badly ripped mp3s:-

http://www.chrismyden.com/bestmp3guide.php

EAC also downloads the correct tags from freedb.org and only works in Windoze. I haven't found a Mac equivalent for EAC yet tho...
Mec

TempestSabre

Mec-a-nic wrote:

I agree, and it's all free/open sauce. Here's a step-by-step guide with links on how to set it up. A little work, but the results ensure you never get badly ripped mp3s:-

http://www.chrismyden.com/bestmp3guide.php

This is for PC. I haven't found a Mac equivalent for EAC yet tho...
Mec

What do you mean by badly ripped.

Mec-a-nic

TempestSabre wrote:

What do you mean by badly ripped.

If there are scratches, dirt on the CD being ripped, some software just ignores or guesses the sound that should be there which can produce pops, crackle or skips in the resulting mp3.

EAC is Exact Audio Copy which means it will do all it can in the way of error correction, etc. to create an exact copy of the data (wav) from the CD before it lets LAME create the compressed mp3 files.

OK?

TempestSabre

And if it gives you errors what do you do?

Cabaal

Macros42 wrote:

iTUnes? Are you mental?

whats wrong with itunes?
it gets album art and all now

Timans

EAC and LAME.

iTunes isn't bad but it isn't as fast as EAC. Also, EAC encodes at a higher bitrate so it has MUCH better sound.

melekalikimaka

Zascar wrote:

Windows Media Player is really not doing it for me, wrong track names and bad naming etc. Need an alternative.

Can anyone recommend something that does the job easily? All I want is to rip a few CD's to mp3 in 256kbs, downlaod correct tracklistings and name then "01 - Artist Name - Track Name" - that's it.

Anyone got any suggestions?

wrong track names? dont they all use the same database? so changing wouldnt help.

i'd go with itunes, unless your going full ultra high quality, itunes does exactly what it says on the tine. i use to hate it, now i think its great and i've been down the poweramp/winamp/foobar road. its the best all in one you can get imo, real player used to be the shizzle...not so much anymore

Wertz

The only thing "good" about real player is it's video compression...

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Cabaal wrote:

whats wrong with itunes?
it gets album art and all now

lol

Mec-a-nic

TempestSabre wrote:

And if it gives you errors what do you do?

Jeeze, you throw yourself under the next stampede of rabid nuns... :eek: What would you normally do if your CD skips when you play it? :rolleyes:

If you give a sh!t how your music sounds, you clean / descratch your CDs, and use the best method to rip/encode it so you can enjoy listening to it, happy in the knowledge the mp3 will never degrade.
If you don't care what it sounds like, you ignore this thread and rip your CDs with whatever software comes to hand and don't worry about errors.

Or RTFM....

duridian

Mec-a-nic wrote:

What would you normally do if your CD skips when you play it?

Probably hop the disc off the nearest wall.

TempestSabre

Mec-a-nic wrote:

Jeeze, you throw yourself under the next stampede of rabid nuns... :eek: What would you normally do if your CD skips when you play it? :rolleyes:

If you give a sh!t how your music sounds, you clean / descratch your CDs, and use the best method to rip/encode it so you can enjoy listening to it, happy in the knowledge the mp3 will never degrade.
If you don't care what it sounds like, you ignore this thread and rip your CDs with whatever software comes to hand and don't worry about errors.

Or RTFM....

I was asking you what you do, if I wanted a smart answer I'd talk to myself.

Personally if I can't hear a difference without doing extensive blind ABX testing then I reckon its good enough. If you get errors, do you live with the errors, or do you go out and buy a new CD. If not, or if it never happens, is there any point in doing extensive error checking on the CD? :rolleyes:

Anti

dbpoweramp for me, been using it years and se no need to change it.