Quickest qway to rip from CD - MP3

Tefal said:
iirc You're allowed to make a backup copy (intended as a back up) but if you take that copy and put it on your mp3 player then you're a dirty pirate :/
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It depends, it's rather a grey area still but if you've got to circumvent copy protection then you can't go making a backup copy legally and format shifting is still technically frowned upon. However the British Phonographic Industry released a statement a few years back where they said that they would not go after any but the "worst offenders" in terms of music piracy.
 
i'm currently archiving my music collection. I use 3 instances of EAC reading from 3 different drives and encoding simultaneously.

I'm hard core.
 
Angilion said:
I've used CDEX a lot. Free and effective. You can rip to .wav with no loss, rip to various compressed formats with various codecs (I use LAME for mp3) at various bitrates.

I tend to use my PC as my music system and it's much more convenient to have my CDs on my shelf and all the contents of them on my HDD. No need to swap discs all the time.
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+1

It even got around some copyright protection that no other ripper would do at the time.
 
Tefal said:
of course the PRS promptly sued mechanics for listening to their music loudly at work

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7029892.stm
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Yeah but if you go beyond the headline it is actually quite sensible. This isn't about copyright infrigment but over licensing issues.

Whilst Night Clubs and bars have to pay a lot of money for a licence to play music why should other companies be able to do this for free? There is a garage down the road from me that I walk past everyday and the music in there is almost as loud as a club and if you closd your eyes from across the street you'd think it was a open air bar in Ibiza.
 
Tefal said:
of course the PRS promptly sued mechanics for listening to their music loudly at work

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7029892.stm
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Different organisations and as estebanrey says it's a licensing issue as companies that play music where the public may hear it are viewed as "performing" the music. You may also note that Kwik-Fit apparently had a policy of banning the use of personal radios in the workplace - more than likely for precisely this reason.

Whether you agree with it or not the rules are pretty simple - if you're a company playing music where the public might hear it then get a licence or risk a fine as the PRS are notably litigious when attempting to protect this license.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Whether you agree with it or not the rules are pretty simple - if you're a company playing music where the public might hear it then get a licence or risk a fine as the PRS are notably litigious when attempting to protect this license.
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The PRS will insist on a licence within a commercial property wherever there is an audience - public or not.
 
Just a quick question.

I've been ripping my CD's to .flac using the onboard sound. I'm getting a DX in the next few days and am just wondering if your sound card has anything to do with the quality of the actual ripping. Or, does EAC just do all the work and the actual sound card is irrelevant.
 
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