What do people use to rip CDs these days?

Chronos-X · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:29

Hiya,

My band have had a CD mastered and we want to make mp3s from the tracks the studio gave us.

In the past I used to use AudioCatalyst - a bit old and it meant installing an ASPI driver but it was very quick.

Now I find in the days of ipods that audiocatalyst doesnt make a proper id3 tag and surely something better must be out there now?

So I tried CDEX... my god that was slow (even with drive speed turned up).

Am currently trying EAC - it has to pause inbetween ripping each track to load LAME when audiocat would've been finished minutes ago!

What's going on?!

p4radox · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:44

cDex is fine for me, very quick. Tried dB Poweramp's CD ripper?

Chronos-X · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:50

Not sure what I did wrong in cdex but it seemed to take almost 2 minutes per track - almost ripping at 2x speed :|

SexyGreyFox · 21 Apr 2006 at 21:04

Audiocatalyst is now called Audiograbber which is free.
You won't notice any difference at all.

Knock yourself out :
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Chronos-X · 21 Apr 2006 at 21:16

dmpoole said:
Audiocatalyst is now called Audiograbber which is free.
You won't notice any difference at all.

Knock yourself out :
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Back in my day audiograbber could only do .wav. Can it do MP3 and id3v2 now?

SexyGreyFox · 21 Apr 2006 at 22:24

Chronos-X said:
Back in my day audiograbber could only do .wav. Can it do MP3 and id3v2 now?

Definitely does MP3 but I tag my files with ID3-tagit anyway (another free prog).

just noticed I have a tick mark on my ID3v2 in Audiograbber settings.

So YES.

TooNice · 21 Apr 2006 at 22:52

Chronos-X said:
Back in my day audiograbber could only do .wav. Can it do MP3 and id3v2 now?

That must've been AGES ago. I remember using audiograbber back in the days (2000?) to encode/test LAME and BladeEnc after using it to rip CDs. I think they had to be setup similar to the way EAC need to be setup though. No built-in codec if I remember right.

Tommy B · 21 Apr 2006 at 23:33

iTunes 192kbps AAC is good enough for me, and I'm running a Hi-Fi setup.

Chronos-X · 21 Apr 2006 at 23:39

TooNice said:
That must've been AGES ago. I remember using audiograbber back in the days (2000?) to encode/test LAME and BladeEnc after using it to rip CDs. I think they had to be setup similar to the way EAC need to be setup though. No built-in codec if I remember right.

It was around '98-'99 iirc. You had to rip a 40mb wav (which on a 1gig HD you would feel the pinch of) - then set Lame up as a DOS command to make the mp3, which usually took a few minutes.

Anyway thanks for the recommendation poolio, its just like an improved AudioCatalyst now

Shame about the still crap file browser though.

SexyGreyFox · 21 Apr 2006 at 23:51

Chronos-X said:
Anyway thanks for the recommendation poolio, its just like an improved AudioCatalyst now Shame about the still crap file browser though.

You probably remember that Audiocatalyst was the daddy under Win95 and then I think it stopped working correctly under Win98 and didn't work at all under XP.
We had to find new ways to encode and a few years ago I asked the same question on these forums for a free ripper.
I was gobsmacked when I saw Audiograbber because it was a blast from the past.

TooNice · 22 Apr 2006 at 05:54

Chronos-X said:
It was around '98-'99 iirc. You had to rip a 40mb wav (which on a 1gig HD you would feel the pinch of) - then set Lame up as a DOS command to make the mp3, which usually took a few minutes.

I think that's how mine worked. Audiocatalyst could be setup to automatically launch LAME/BladeEnc and piping the right syntax to it right? That's also how EAC, which I use now, work (at least for FLAC). However the ripping doesn't stop in EAC while you encode, which I forgot if it did in Audiocatalyst.