Ripping program

[joeparaski]

I am considering ripping all my cd collection to a hard drive. Which is better, I-tunes or EAC and why? Are there other things I should consider?

Joe

[sucks2beme]

I am considering ripping all my cd collection to a hard drive. Which is better, I-tunes or EAC and why? Are there other things I should consider?

Joe

EAC. It's free and proven to work well. Itunes? I avoid anything with the big
"I" in it. Is EAC better? I don't know, but EAC works very well.
I'll leave it to the Apple fans to tell you how good I-tunes is.

[nadams]

I typically use CDEx paired with the FLAC plugin. Rip straight from CD to FLAC :)

[seeclear]

I use CD Xtractor from sourceforge. It is free, but I don't know if it does flac. It hasn't been updated in a while, and is no longer in development, but it works well for ripping to mp3 format.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtractor/

[spwuinmk67]

I've used itunes for years with no problems, it gets your track info, and keeps everything organized in all folders and sub folders.

[shiarua]

http://www.overclock.net/sound-cards-computer-audio/251840-perfectionist-s-guide-ripping-audio-cd.html#post2901041

[spwuinmk67]

I've used itunes for years with no problems, it gets your track info, and keeps everything organized in all folders and sub folders.

[sdschwendener]

Here is another point for the iTunes crowd. I use it to manage a library I have had going for 4 years now.. With iTunes, like the above said, you get track info and it is easy to add album artwork. If you want to backup the library with art included and/or move it to another machine and have it work instantly you need to copy two files and two folders.. i believe it is your music folder, a library.xml, artwork folder, and one other that I am forgetting as I am not at my machine now.

Very simple.. has worked for me with no problems. One thing I am curious about is their lossless format has changed in the last couple major updates. It used to make lossless aac at around 2000+ bit rate but with my last recent test it came out to around 1300. This were also varying bit rates.

More efficient? Less quality (i doubt it).. I'm not sure

[John30_30]

EAC is the most anal, error-correcting, tweakable ripping app there is, if accuracy is what you're about. Download EAC and look through its menu settings.

iTunes is much more about the library, and basically only rips in mp3 or the various Apple formats. EAC rips to all the other formats. dbPoweramp is also an excellent ripper and transcoder. Yet another favorite is foobar, which has replaygain, if you're into that.

[joeparaski]

Actually I-tunes has a WAV encoder also.

Joe