Have you tried JRiver?
I believe they do a Mac version, and IIRC the trial versions are fully featured.
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Have you tried JRiver?
I believe they do a Mac version, and IIRC the trial versions are fully featured.
I think there may be a dvd audio extractor plug in for foobar2000. You would need to get foobar and then the separate plug in, but they are both free.
Aaahh I see. I didn't know foobar doesn't have a Mac version.
Have any of you guys had the following issue with EAC? I have spent some hours trying to copy a CD to flac but EAC keeps coming up with an error message saying that it is unable to compress the wav. file. I copied another CD in the same session which did not have any issues. Out of 700 CD's plus that I have ripped over the last 4-5yrs I have not experienced this before.
Good news. I installed the DVD audio extractor demo on my older mac and got the job done.
Cheers
I've had occasional issues with CDs not ripping properly.
Sometimes a clean with glass polish helps.
Sometimes a polish up with duraglit helps - you need to polish radially if you do this.
This is a fantastic tool for helping tame unruly digital collections.
http://picard.musicbrainz.org/
My collection is quite well organised but it turns out there are quite a few stray tags messing things around (for instance some artists had been tagged using 'and' and some '&' which was causing issues for MPD/Mopidy).
This has just allowed me to go through the whole lot and quite straightforwardly sort it right out. Highly recommended.
I've browsed through some of the information in this thread, and am wondering if there are any worthwhile, up to date, Rip options to be considered in 2018.
I've just set up my first stand alone DAC, and have the option to carry on with the Cambridge Azur 540 CD Player as the replay device, purchase a dedicated CD Transport, or Rip CD,s and Store FLAC File Downloads on a Stand alone Storage Set Up and replay direct from this device.
Is there a method of creating a replay direct from a Stand alone storage Device that can equal a CD Players Sound Quality ?
I have began my investigations into streaming, and for the sake of keeping the initial costs down, I will start with the Laptop and work my way on from this set up.
I am a novice at this type of tech talk, so will require time to process any replies.
If I'm understanding your question correctly, You could always just rip some CD's to your laptop on FLAC, connect that to your DAC & then compare the sound quality from your CDP vs a ripped version stored on your laptop going through the same DAC. So the differences you hear would be down to the storage.
If you decided that you liked the ripped version, you could then buy a NAS drive, which is a digital storage device left permanently switched on & wired to your router. With a laptop, you will only be able to access your music if it is powered up & sometimes that may be inconvenient?
If you decide to go that far, then you could always compare the same album from a quality streaming source eg Tidal HiFi, vs ripped vs CD (& even vs LP if you really want to) to get a grip on your preferences. The only thing is that you must ensure you are listening to the same version of a song on all the methods, ie not selecting a remastered or remixed version on Tidal, vs the original release on CD etc.
Thank you for the reply.
Yes you have read it correct, and the idea of a NAS, is of consideration, as I have a lot of FLAC Music Files,
as well as 100's of 30MP photograph files on my Laptop that I need back up for a safe storage as well.
Hence my holding off on streaming, while I get to grips with this method being discussed.
When this is in order, I will then venture into Streaming, and will hopefully have had a little hands on experience by then.
The question in my mind following your reply, is from the NAS a router is suggested, does a router have a effect on the SQ when being used with music files.
Hello! I started wondering about CD ripping programs since I have been ripping my music library to higher bitrate for few days now.
I have read from this forum, that dBPoweramp is a recommended program for this job. However - I have been doing it
with Windows Media Player. I would like to ask - would you consider this or would that be a definite no-no ?
Also - for bigger quality, what would be the thing to look for the most, buying a new optical drive? (in which to rip)
I know a lot of people would say, that use just what sounds good to you, but it is difficult for me to evaluate quality, since different playback devices and methods also come to play.
However, I am willing to listen to my mp3-s with Chromecast Audio, and Google play music. But that might change at one point.
Thank you!
Well - I don't find it convenient enaugh to constantly flip CD-s in and out of the CD-player. Thats why I use mp3-s (google play music, chromecast).
My mp3-files are created a long time ago, when the file size was more of an issue, and hence many of them had the low bitrate of 128.
To answer your question - it is my understanding, that the higher is the bitrate, the higher is the sound quality of the file, since it is closer to "lossless".
Bitrate I use now is 320. I am not making lossless, because then I feel like it would be too much data to stream.
May be you can persuade me that I am misunderstanding something?
If I were you and I was ripping my collection again I would rip to a lossless format like WAV or FLAC then you would never have to rip anything again. Keep this as your master library and then you can convert into anything you want from there, using something like dBpoweramp.
If you don't do this and rip to a lossy format again, then you later decide that you want to take your sound a step further than 320 kbps .mp3, you'll have to rip your collection again, which seems a crazy thing to keep doing. Batch converting from a lossless file library using something like dBpoweramp is very simple. Having a lossless master library covers all your bases for whatever format or bitrate you would like to use in the future.
In answer to your original question, I personally wouldn't be using Windows Media Player to rip anything.
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Agree with Tim. Rip to flac via a decent library program. Jriver or the like. Get the metadata right too. It will add covers but you can also add a cover pic to each folder and call each. folder.jpg.
This should work well later.
As he says you then have a master library which you should copy to at least one external drive and keep safe. It can be updated if needed every few months.
Then if you want MP3 stuff jriver or others will convert you a copy without altering master.
Might sound like extra work but it's not much and you will appreciate it later
Thank you so much guys. I guess I will go with dBpoweramp, since it is a bit cheaper and I will create the master-library.
I will also borrow the original CD-s from a friend, since a lot of mines are actually copies.
But speaking of me not having to rip anything any more after that, what is your take on the different optical drives?
What might be the extent of losing quality via bad optical drive, if any? The drive on my desktop is about 10 years old
(Optiarc DVD RW AD-7220S). I seems to work great but would you ever worry about it?
I will try to collect information, and read the forum, but I am open for suggestions.
Thank you!
if it works it works imv. :)
If you use dBpoweramp (and EAC) your rips can be checked against the http://www.accuraterip.com/ database to ensure integrity - if they are in the database of course.
Other rippers may do the same, but I only use the above two - don't over think this re different optical drives ;)
+1
The two ripping tools Tim mentions give identical results.
EAC is a bit slower going about its business, and is a bit clunky. It also needs a fair bit of manual set up in respect of plugins.
dBPoweramp has all the plugins you need packaged with it, performs its task a bit faster, and has a nicer user interface.
Yeah thanks - I have been rocking this dBpoweramp now for few hours and it looks great.
Thanks again. There is a lot to learn.
Hi
For ripping CD's I use E.A.C, or Jet-Audio; For playing CD's and WAV, FLAC or MP3 files I use FOOBAR or Jet Audio; As for Windows Media Player, I just don't like Microsoft in general so I don't use it.
As for digital formats, I'd only use WAV or FLAC. With MP3 I'd only use it for small storage portable players. I'd use the highest bitrate possible (320 stereo or 320 stereo Variable Bit-Rate) and i'd use a slightly lower bit-rate ONLY because I need to save space on a small storage portable player or because the recording isn't of any real importance.
I find most modern Disk Drives (that I've used) all pretty good and there's not much difference between them. :) :thumbsup: