MP3 Rip program

i don't know what changing the bitrate figures will do, i copied my settings from hydrogen audio's 32-320 vbr settings ages ago..

haven't looked back at them since

cdex is also good, has a simpler approach
 
i might try this as well considering WMP is making mincemeat of my music, rip a cd and i get a crackling sound. 1 thing thought is there anywhere i can get .alb files for the albums or will this programe get them automatically for me?
 
if you're worried about more detail, you should be ripping in lossless really!

-V 0 --vbr-new is the only quality setting you should be worrying about. if your using that, its all good:)
 
Lossless MP3 is this? Part of the reason I still rip in MP3 is my iPod. If I could play FLAC or another "better" format on my iPod I'd happily rip everything in that format.
 
nooo flac. mp3 is fine though really, i defy anybody to abx v0 lame and flac on all but the very best systems and get it right.

even so, i rip everything in flac these days. space isnt an issue, and it only takes a few minuts to recode a flac album into mp3 for my mp3 player if i want to. makes no sense in storing them on the pc in any other way really.
 
Hmm I didn't mean FLAC I've just realised. Ogg Vorbis I was on about. :p

So FLAC isn't a worthy audio format? Seeing as it'd be off-topic can we discuss this on MSN sometime if you aren't too busy? Would love to know more about this and I reckon you to be one of the audio experts on this 'ere forums. :)
 
that was a little confusing, i could have worded that better really. let me explain lol

Flac is one of the many lossless audio formats (flac and monkies audio being the two main contenders) it works just like a zip file (for anybody who doesnt know) in that when you look at the contents, its a 1:1 copy (identical)of the original audio it was created from. mp3 is lossless as you know and achieves 90% of its compression using advanced algorithms to strip the audio stream of frequencies and noises that it thinks the human ear will never hear.

Lossless, in any format, is always preferable as long as you have the space for it. Generally flac will compress audio by around 45-55% depending on the content, some times less, compared to 10-15%% or so that you achieve with lame v0 --vbr-new. so a flac album may be around 300-400mb compared to say, 60-70mb for its lame mp3'd equivalent. those are rough number but you get the idea.

the one biggest advantage with flac is that you always have a 1:1 copy on your pc. with that, you can transcode it into whatever format you wish for whatever current or future device you'd wish to use it on. It's like backing up your own dvd rather than grabbing a copy of some guys dodgy ddvd that was ripped and compressed to fit a single layer 4.7gb dvd-r. a 1:1 copy will always give you the best possible quality.


....then its just up to your soundcards, mp3 players, amps, speakers an headphones;)
 
Ah I gets ye now. :p So I could, conceivably, make FLAC copies of my music for archival/transcoding purposes and use the MP3 copy for everyday use?
 
MarcLister said:
Ah I gets ye now. :p So I could, conceivably, make FLAC copies of my music for archival/transcoding purposes and use the MP3 copy for everyday use?
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Indeed. You could listen to the FLAC copies whilst at your machine but when you need them to be on your iPod or similar you could transcode to apple Apple lossless or AAC or mp3. :)

Think of it like .png versus .bmp versus .jpeg. The .bmp is full quality but uncompressed. The .png is full quality but compressed. The .jpg is lossy and compressed. When working with an image if you have to transcode or recompress the jpeg a few times you're going to end up with some nasty artifacts. Not so with the .png.
 
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james.miller said:
if you're worried about more detail, you should be ripping in lossless really!

-V 0 --vbr-new is the only quality setting you should be worrying about. if your using that, its all good:)
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It not lossless. there is no lossless mp3 as far as i know. mp3 lossy.

flac is lossless, and eac will do this for you, but who needs flac i think. v0 is excellent.
 
I'm getting a Zune soon along with upgrading all my sound gear (getting a dedicated headphone amp and DAC for the PC etc), but I can't decide what to encode with. I think I'm going to do FLAC and then archive my MP3s accross on my portable HDD for Syncing....

By the way, that version of EAC posted is rather old now, we are up to 0.99 prebeta 3
 
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