I have a few old 80's CDs with pre-emphasis, but it is not commonly used anymore.
Here is what I would do if I still had unripped pre-emphasized CDs:
- Rip to single wav file & cue sheet.
- Process the wav with Sox.
- Mount the "wav + cue" disc image with Daemon Tools, Virtual Clone Drive or some other virtual CD drive emulator.
- Rip the virtual disc to track files with MC.
That's about what I ended up with. My workflow ended up being:
- Rip to a single WAV and CUE sheet using Exact Audio Copy
- Process the WAV with Sox
- Edit the CUE to point to the processed WAV file
- Load the CUE in Foobar2000
- Use Foobar to convert the tracks to FLAC and MP3
That seemed to be the most straightforward way that would keep the basic tagging info (album, artist, title, track). The tagging info is in the CUE sheet. Foobar reads it from the CUE and tags the converted files.
Media Center can also read and play CUE sheets so I could have used MC to do the file conversion. I just wasn't thinking of that in my sleep deprived state.
Not the easiest way to rip, but could be worse. I saw a few comments by the developer of dbPoweramp that the next version of the dbPoweramp ripper may include de-emphasis for pre-emphasis CDs.
My Columbia C2K 36183 release of "The Wall" is sounding good.