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JRiver vs. dBpoweramp for ripping CDs? Opinions?
Awesome Donkey:
Having music located on a separate drive won't be any issue whatsoever. Just make sure you point auto-import towards the directory the music resides in and you're good to go.
JimH:
Please start a thread for new topics.
imeric:
--- Quote from: imeric on January 11, 2017, 05:03:59 pm ---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.
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This just happened to me once again using the latest dbpoweramp and a heavily scratched CD...No matter how I tweak the secure rip settings in dbpoweramp JRiver performed better...
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 without noticeable hiccups...Makes me wonder why I use dBpoweramp for ripping...
A.K.:
I think most important link in the ripping chain is the drive. I have tested with 3 external cd&dvd drives and they all had different results. Oldest LG drive I have is very quiet and rips very fast, error correction seems to be working in secure mode, but had pretty interesting results when I listened those parts that had unreliable data or required multiple re-reads before good data. With other cd&dvd drives those damaged parts that had audible clicks or pops, appeared exactly where it states in the securerip log, but that LG drive probably somehow gave wrong data to MC and the error click or pop appeared several seconds later. Sometimes it was even 30 seconds ahead than what log stated ?
Other LG drive that I currently use is one of those earlier slim type external drives and it works just fine, even after very damaged cd and unreliable data, I can't hear any clicks or pops in the audio. Just recently bought new Samsung cd&dvd burner and while it usually rips quite good and fast, error correction capability isn't nowhere near that old LG slim drive 8)
bekam:
--- Quote from: imeric on February 10, 2017, 08:36:19 am ---This just happened to me once again using the latest dbpoweramp and a heavily scratched CD...No matter how I tweak the secure rip settings in dbpoweramp JRiver performed better.
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So, JRiver is better than dBpoweramp and EAC on heavily scratched CDs... Is that correct?.
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