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What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?

JRiver Media Jukebox
- 9 (18%)
Easy CD-DA Extractor
- 3 (6%)
Musicmatch
- 0 (0%)
RealPlayer
- 0 (0%)
Windows Media Player
- 1 (2%)
Jet Audio
- 1 (2%)
Nero
- 1 (2%)
JRiver Media Center
- 35 (70%)

Total Members Voted: 49


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Matthew

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POLL: What do you use to RIP your Audio CDs?
« on: April 23, 2004, 01:58:36 pm »

 :) :) :) ::)
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2004, 02:06:01 pm »

im lazy and mc is integrated.

i use lame mp3 and ape

[edit: yeah i know thats encoding, but mc does it all in 1 go and as i said im lazy]

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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2004, 02:10:12 pm »

I used to use EAC, but after running some comparisons of WAV files between EAC and MC, and finding zero differences, I switched to MC because, well, it's easier. :)
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2004, 02:33:32 pm »

MC  all the way..it's fast, it's easy.  Have tried many, many other programs..both free and purchased( Monkeyaudio, MMJ, Creative Media Source, WinAmp, Windows Media Player, Sonique, Sony, just to name a few).  My conclusions:   MC is the best all in one program.   I didn't have to search around for codecs to play video or DVD's, didn't have to buy plugins to play or burn MP3's.  Didn't have to buy a plug in to convert or edit files.   Like I said  - it does it all, and it does it so very nicely!!   ;D
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2004, 02:38:30 pm »

Is there any other app besides MC?  8)
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2004, 03:31:06 pm »

You don't list EAC?  Hello?
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2004, 03:52:08 pm »

Fur sure!..EAC would be a solid second to MC...in short...it ROCKS! It's all I use.

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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2004, 03:56:58 pm »

I use Easy CD-DA Extractor for over 3 years and is a powerful program for this.
Media Center i use for over 1 year.
I voted for Easy CD-DA extractor, i know this soft very well, but Media Center makes many improvement in last year and i love that. Maybe in the future i abandon Easy CD-DA Extractor.
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2004, 04:12:05 pm »

I use MC most of the time once in a great while I will use Music Match because of the taging

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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2004, 04:21:30 pm »

MC 10 with external LAME 3.90.3. for MP3 and MC 10 with internal encoder for APE.
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2004, 06:00:48 pm »

A poll about riping without EAC
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Your next poll will be about the next president of the USA - but you will put only one candidate ?????
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2004, 07:01:48 pm »

MC unless I need a cue file when I use EAC.
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2004, 08:30:39 pm »

EAC to APE with CUE files.
MakeAPL to get individual selections from the APE file.
If MC would do that (rip to one file and have an index to the selections) I'd just use MC because it rips well.
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2004, 09:22:32 pm »

Plextools (since I have a Plextor cd-rw drive) when I'm ripping to encode tracks for my library or to share with friends. Feurio! when I'm ripping to burn audio cd-rs.

Rob
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2004, 09:24:27 pm »

GHammer,

What's the reason you rip to a single file?  I've seen other people say they do this, but I am not sure I understand the reason.

Thanks! :)
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2004, 10:45:39 pm »

As stated, when ripping to ape (Monkey's Audio) with EAC, you can end up with a single file and a cue list. There are no track breaks, live music without spaces between tracks, the same goes for classical music. This is the only true gap-less playback. The cue list allows you to still choose individual tracks.
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2004, 06:21:30 pm »

EAC   8)
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2004, 02:24:47 am »

EAC
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2004, 02:45:33 am »

GHammer,

What's the reason you rip to a single file?  I've seen other people say they do this, but I am not sure I understand the reason.

Thanks! :)

When you have a single lossless file, you have the complete CD with no gaps between the selections. If you listen to Dark Side Of The Moon for example, it flows from song to song properly.

I use the APL files to have the ability to play only a certain selection from the entire CD. Also when I want to transcode to use my music on another device I use the APL files because I don't often want the entire CD on my portanle.

Anyway, the main idea of the single file is the gapless playback.
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #19 on: April 25, 2004, 02:47:41 am »

Ok, got ya.  But I do know that with my configuration (gapless, etc) I have no gaps when I play albums with tracks that run together even though the tracks are in seperate files...
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2004, 04:04:12 am »


Once the JRiver team gets the cue support (both ripping and playback/organizing) implemented... EAC is history!



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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2004, 08:23:00 am »

There are other programs ?
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2004, 10:30:22 am »

EAC - bizarre poll without it as an option!

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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2004, 10:38:11 am »

Ok, got ya.  But I do know that with my configuration (gapless, etc) I have no gaps when I play albums with tracks that run together even though the tracks are in seperate files...

If it works for you, cool. But I have tried several albums that do not 'end' between selections and there is always either a pop or silence when going from track x to track y.

In other words, if I have a CD where the music does not stop but continues uninterrupted from selection 1 to selection 2 I can always hear the selection change using seperate files.

The MP3 format causes some problems in itself. MP3 stores audio data in frames, which can't store entire audio CD track without either truncating last samples or adding extra null samples, total length must be a multiply of frame size, being fixed at 1152 samples for MPEG-1 layer 3. MP3 also suffers from encoder/decoder delay causing the decoder to produce additional null samples at the beginning of decoded stream. In order to correct this problem, the MP3 file needs to store two additional numbers, the amount of samples to remove at the beginning of stream, and amount of samples to remove at the end of stream, then the decoder needs to take these numbers into account.

Maybe MC does this. But, since I have to store my music in some format, and I want the format to be lossless, why bother with seperate files when the APE/APL method works so well?
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #24 on: April 25, 2004, 10:40:31 am »

Just wanted to note that if you use APE, you'll get perfect gapless whether you rip as one large file or as individual files. (at least if you rip the individual tracks with MC)
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Re:POLL: What do you use to RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #25 on: April 25, 2004, 05:49:51 pm »

Well, that explains why I get perfect gapless! My entire library is in the APE format.
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Re:What program do you use too RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2004, 11:41:03 pm »

Just wanted to note that if you use APE, you'll get perfect gapless whether you rip as one large file or as individual files. (at least if you rip the individual tracks with MC)

I'll have to give that a try next rip. But the APL files appeal to my geek side too. They're just cool.
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Re:POLL: What do you use to RIP your Audio CDs?
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2004, 02:48:57 am »


JRiver,

If you have the energy to go trough the extra steps to create APL files, you end up with two entries of the album once you import the directory.

Can you add a setting somewhere where you can choose to ignore the .APE file if there are .APL files in the dir?

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