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JRiver vs. dBpoweramp for ripping CDs? Opinions?
imeric:
As per some of the posts above, I too still use dbpoweramp for CD ripping due to speed (Accuraterip), Better Metadata access AND Replaygain tags (for iTunes Sound check that I want in my tags).
However having done a fairly high number of comparisons between MC21 and dbpoweramp15.3 on heavily scratched CDs, MC turned out to always perform better on insecure rips.
(ie the scratches were less noticeable with MC rips than dBpoweramp no matter how I tweaked dBpoweramp securerip settings)...
So I like to have the option to choose between the 2 for CD rips and MC can definitely do the job just fine.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,98845.msg683937.html#msg683937
This just happened to me once again using the latest dbpoweramp...No matter how I tweak the secur rip settings JRiver performed better on a heavily scratched CD.
dBpoweramp ran for hours (probably took a few years off my drive by doing this...) and wasn't able to rip the song. Tried the same track with JRiver, it had 4-5 unreliable re-reads but it took about 1-2 minutes and the song plays just fine...Makes me wonder why I use dBpoweramp for ripping...
blgentry:
--- Quote from: imeric on January 11, 2017, 12:49:54 pm --- Better Metadata access AND Replaygain tags (for iTunes Sound check that I want in my tags).
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You should not rely upon ReplayGain tags that you get from the internet. There's no way to verify if they are right or wrong. There are sometimes many different versions of the same album with wildly different dynamic range and therefore different ReplayGain values.
You should instead have MC run it's Analyze Audio routine, which will populate both the R128 fields *and* the ReplayGain tags. I use an external player for portable use and it recognizes and uses the ReplayGain tags that MC generates.
Brian.
imeric:
--- Quote from: blgentry on January 11, 2017, 04:59:43 pm ---You should not rely upon ReplayGain tags that you get from the internet. There's no way to verify if they are right or wrong. There are sometimes many different versions of the same album with wildly different dynamic range and therefore different ReplayGain values.
You should instead have MC run it's Analyze Audio routine, which will populate both the R128 fields *and* the ReplayGain tags. I use an external player for portable use and it recognizes and uses the ReplayGain tags that MC generates.
Brian.
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I was talking about the R128 Replaygain utility in dbpoweramp that will also generate the itunnorm tags. I run this when ripping and then do MC's audio analysis in MC on import since it uses different tags for its own Volume leveling...
I need the dbpoweramp tags for soundcheck on the iphone and don't want itunes to run its own soundcheck analysis.
dtc:
--- Quote from: JohnT on January 11, 2017, 09:01:34 am ---It looks like Discogs supports both CD and vinyl formats, and has barcode numbers which could presumably be used for looking up audio CD's.
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Yes, it has CDs, but its primary strength is records. It has twice as many records as vinyls. Take a look, but I do not believe it would be a good primary source for CD data. I just tried a couple of modern artists and it did not have entries for them. If you want to add them as a secondary source that would be fine.
Theleb_Kaarna:
Guys, thanks ALOT for all the responses, much to ponder! Think I've decided to go with dBpoweramp for primary ripping and do some testing/comparison with MC's rip in addition.
*EDIT :: Sorry JimH. May start a new thread w/ any different-topic ?'s I might have.
\/ Thanks @Awesome Donkey for your response. \/
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