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macnugget
23-01-2011, 12:45
Hi
I am looking at two options for ripping my cd's at the moment the first one is Exact Audio Copying and the second one is http://www.nch.com.au/rip/index.html?gclid=CIbmvtOs0KYCFQUTfAodkE3sMw

What I would like to know is which is a better one for quality and speed of ripping. Or is there any better ones out there? I am intent to use WAV through my QA550 SD transport.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Stephen
Stratmangler
23-01-2011, 13:13
EAC or dbPowereamp. Both rip securely.
Why WAV ?
macnugget
23-01-2011, 13:15
Because the SD transport will only work with WAV.



EAC or dbPowereamp. Both rip securely.
Why WAV ?
WAD62
23-01-2011, 13:15
Hi
I am looking at two options for ripping my cd's at the moment the first one is Exact Audio Copying and the second one is http://www.nch.com.au/rip/index.html?gclid=CIbmvtOs0KYCFQUTfAodkE3sMw

What I would like to know is which is a better one for quality and speed of ripping. Or is there any better ones out there? I am intent to use WAV through my QA550 SD transport.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Stephen

Quite a few of us on here use dBpoweramp, there's a thread on the subject in this section, about 5 down from this one, not free but probably the best IMHO particularly if you're doing a lot...;)
WAD62
23-01-2011, 13:16
EAC or dbPowereamp. Both rip securely.
Why WAV ?

Doh! were in parallel again Chris...:doh:
Stratmangler
23-01-2011, 13:22
Because the SD transport will only work with WAV.

I saw the question about ripping - missed the bit about the transport :doh:

You're talking about one of these babies http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QLS-QA-550-Hi-FI-SD-Card-WAV-Digital-Audio-Music-Player-/290432250597
macnugget
23-01-2011, 13:29
This one actually http://www.chevronaudio.co.uk/html/untitled24.htm
Jac Hawk
23-01-2011, 14:02
Ok lets see if i'm getting this right, you want to copy your CD's onto SD cards to then play via the transport, the simple answer is USE dbpoweramp ok, no if's but's or maybe's it's the best.

By the way i noticed this gadget you are getting was only capable of playing 16bit 44khz files so may restrict you if you have any sacd or anything 24/96 format, which is another good reason for using dbpoweramp as you can select the output bitrate and frequency ;)
macnugget
23-01-2011, 14:24
So is this the one I should be getting then? The Reference R14: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc-power-register.htm
Jac Hawk
23-01-2011, 14:26
So is this the one I should be getting then? The Reference R14: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc-power-register.htm

Yep that's the one.
Welder
23-01-2011, 15:58
(Leans over and pokes Mike in the eye :lol:)

I would recommend EAC over dbpoweramp. It just rips, its free, it does secure rip, it really isn’t hard to use.
Btw, ripping direct to a SDD drive is a great idea ;)
MartinT
23-01-2011, 16:00
I've used EAC for years, it rips extremely well and copes with flawed CDs by using the full CIRC implementation and retrying many times. What you get is a very reliable WAV of the original data.
Canetoad
23-01-2011, 18:01
I use EAC too and have no problems with it. It's a great FREE product.:)
jbloggs
23-01-2011, 21:12
EAC is undoubtedly a very good bit of freeware, however, just never got on with it, so just today bought dBpoweramp Reference R14...
pwood
24-01-2011, 11:37
I asked the same thing a while back all I would say if your not sure is download EAC and the DBPoweramp trial and see for yourself how much less hassle DB is if you have a lot to rip. Consider the future as well, as ripping a whole collection to WAV is not ideal for a number of reasons (apart from SQ). How sure are you that that will be all you will use in the future to listen to your files. I know you require WAV but I would suggest if you have the Disk space to use DBpower amp to rip a WAV and FLAC file at the same time which it can do with the dual rip feature.
Tony G
30-01-2011, 01:30
If it might be of use to anyone (it is to me), dBpoweramp is unique (I think) in its ability to apply ID3 tags to .wav files and this can be done when ripping.
These tags can be used by Squeezebox Server to correctly catalog a collection of .wav files.
Album art can also be embedded in these tags.
The tag info is carried forward if the files are subsequently converted to a compressed/lossy format for portable or other use requiring that.
Such tagging, whilst rarely used to date, is within the container specification for .wav files and has broken or choked no application with which I have used such tagged files.
Few applications will read these tags with the notable exception of Squeezebox Server.
Having a largely .wav collection of music files, I find this to be very useful in conjunction with the context menu integration of dBpoweramp, which gives file tag info as a popup on mouseover within explorer and quick access to various conversion functions including the very handy tag from filename converter.
I have also used it to tag .wav files previously ripped with EAC and also those purchased as downloads.
There are some very flexible options for secure ripping and handling of problematic discs and the tag info lookup uses multiple online databases and allows comparison and alteration prior to ripping/tagging.
Well worth the price - IMO.
T