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    I run an old Dell lap top that I used apple i player with. Ripped everything to flac. Sounded great.

    Just got a newish acer lap top from my good lady and want to start a fresh-rip all my cds at full bit rate.

    Can anyone help recommend a free player that will let me store everything on the lap top.

    My computer skills are awful- I just want to build a digital library but without all the apple comparability problems.

    If I could copy all my stuff from i player on the Dell it would be great but I dont know where to start!!!

    Dont mind ripping a few hundred disks if thats what it takes.

    Please keep it as idiot proof as possible.

    I have spotify playing thrugh the dac ok. I can play a cd on the lap top just dont know how to store it on the hard drive.

    Any help greatly received.

    Thanks Tony.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wee tee cee View Post
    I run an old Dell lap top that I used apple i player with. Ripped everything to flac. Sounded great
    What's apple i player?
    I've heard of iTunes, have a copy installed on my Windows laptop, and it doesn't rip to or play flac.
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    yup its i tunes-think its stored at aac....whatever the highest quality setting is. the new lap top is windows 10 so i am really struggling.

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    I tunes is the work of the devil IMO Tony. :-)

    Not free, but dbpoweramp is a very good way to rip all your cd’s. Just make your own music folder with a separate folder for each music genre. How much space does the hard drive have?
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    Ali,
    Im in agreement i tunes is evil. The lap top has 5oo gig. Is db power amp a player or just a means to rip bit perfect?

    Might have to ask Gary for help!!!

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    Jriver does most of work for you and is a good player too. Not overly expensive in my opinion. Gary can set it up for you easy too
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    Quote Originally Posted by wee tee cee View Post
    Ali,
    Im in agreement i tunes is evil. The lap top has 5oo gig. Is db power amp a player or just a means to rip bit perfect?

    Might have to ask Gary for help!!!
    dBpoweramp is both a ripper and a player but there are better players including the fantastic swiss army knife of players VLC (which is free). I can highly recommend dBpoweramp as a ripper and as an audio file converter. You can set it up to batch convert all your aac files to flac or whatever format you want. It has a free 21 day trial and the price is very reasonable as there are no annual licenses as with some products. I would strongly advise on buying it as part of a bundle along with Perfect TUNES which is a neat app to manage your music files (e.g. check the integrity of files, get the best artwork for rips and remove duplicate rips). For playing I would use VLC

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    Gary's your man Tony . Ali knows his stuff too , but he's a bit far away
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
    dBpoweramp is both a ripper and a player but there are better players including the fantastic swiss army knife of players VLC (which is free). I can highly recommend dBpoweramp as a ripper and as an audio file converter. You can set it up to batch convert all your aac files to flac or whatever format you want. It has a free 21 day trial and the price is very reasonable as there are no annual licenses as with some products. I would strongly advise on buying it as part of a bundle along with Perfect TUNES which is a neat app to manage your music files (e.g. check the integrity of files, get the best artwork for rips and remove duplicate rips). For playing I would use VLC

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    Geoff,
    Thanks for that, very helpful.

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    I use dBPoweramp myself, so that's another recommendation.
    EAC is another decent ripper. The results are identical to the ones you'd get from dBPoweramp, but EAC is a bugger to set up right.

    If you've already ripped your CDs to AAC, forget about converting them to anything else.
    You can't properly reconstruct a file if the bits aren't there to start with.
    If you want the full fat version you'll need to rip the CDs again, as AAC is a lossy format (ie it removes data), just like MP3 is.

    As for the various media players out there, I don't really use them.
    When I do use one I use Foobar, because it does the job without having a nice GUI - GUIs always have higher processing power overheads.
    Foobar is a bit hair shirt, but once you get used to playing with it it's easy to use, and it's extremely flexible too, because there are plugins to expand its capabilities.
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