App for Ripping CD's?

AHarvey · 25 Apr 2009 at 04:20

Hi,

Currently trying to Rip all of my CD's to MP3. I am currently using media monkey however it seems to rip all the tracks and stores them as Unknown tracks from and unknown album. I then have to go through, rename all the tracks etc etc etc.

It's taking a bleedin age to do!

Is there a faster app that will rip them all from CD and automatically search for the correct info on the track and apply it?

Or am I stuck doing it this way?

CaptainCrash · 25 Apr 2009 at 09:12

Exact Audio Copy is probably the best free ripping app (and arguably the best bar none). It's not the simplest to set up optimally, but there are plenty of tutorials on the interwebs and you only do it the once. If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing properly and all that.

You can set it up to name and tag files automatically using freedb, but in my experience you end up spending practically as much time correcting all the retarded spelling mistakes as you would have done entering the details manually in the first place.

swinnie · 25 Apr 2009 at 09:32

EAC is definitely the best.

Just get the LAME Encoder, and use the database built into EAC that'll tag everything for you.

Really simple and the best free app there is in my opinion.

hp7909 · 25 Apr 2009 at 09:43

Another vote for EAC, but as mentioned their online database is good but keep Wikipedia/Amazon/etc website(s) open just in case

whitecrook · 25 Apr 2009 at 11:00

dbpoweramp or EAC?

Ryan0r · 25 Apr 2009 at 15:00

I swear by CDex. Free and fast with full CDDB lookup functionality. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=download

JoDaMa · 25 Apr 2009 at 15:14

Another vote for EAC, it's an absolutely fantastic program once you have it configured properly. There are loads of tutorials around on the net like CaptainCrash says to help get you started.

Rozzy85 · 25 Apr 2009 at 15:15

The best ones for ripping music I've found:

EAC
CDex

If you want a tag editor too, then these are the best ones I've found:

EasyTAG
Mp3tag

MarcLister · 25 Apr 2009 at 15:55

EAC with the Lame MP3 encoder is :cool:

. bledd has a heavily modified version of EAC which is just the EAC installer with the Lame MP3 encoder pre-packed I think. Its an older version of EAC as well so get the current EAC build and download the Lame MP3 encoder and yer laffin'.