Good CD ripper proggie??

[E F]

Try Cdex, it will Rip tracks or the whole disk.  Saves as WAV or MP3 or
OOG.

Free too.

http://www.download.com/CDex/3000-2140-10226370.html

   --Eric




On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:36:58 -0500, Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:22 +0000, M Holmes wrote:
>> Doing a Hawk compilation for someone (he's near retired, but hey, he
>> might start buying 'em...).
>>
>> So I need a proggie to grab individual tracks from CD and then I need to
>> put 'em all on one CD. In the old days I used to do it all with Easy CD
>> Creator but that doesn't work any more.
>>
>> I have Nero, but that just seems to write CDs. It doesn't help grab the
>> tracks to the hard drive. Itunes does seem to grab tracks as .wav but
>> with live albums has its own weird ideas about where the tracks start
>> and finish.
>>
>> Just copying the tracks from a CD from the drive doesn't work either
>> since they don't copy over as .wav
>>
>> So what's the simplest way to do the bit that involves copying tracks to
>> the hard drive?
>
> If you are interested in the quality of the copy, I suggest you use
> either ExactAudioCopy (EAC) [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de] or dBpowerAMP
> [http://www.dbpoweramp.com] if you are using MS-Windows.  EAC is sort of
> the "gold standard" for digital audio extraction (DAE) quality on
> Windows.  Both EAC and dBpowerAMP now support AccurateRip, which allows
> you to compare checksums of your DAE with those of others around the
> world, to be more confident of having made a bit-identical DAE.  (Hey,
> if you use either of these, you might be able to confirm my AccurateRip
> checksums for the Hawkwind remasters.  I think I'm the only one to have
> submitted results for Hawkwind CDs.;)
>
> IMHO, it's very worthwhile using a good quality DAE program, even if you
> believe your CD hardware to be good and your CDs pristine.  My *BRAND
> NEW* never-been-played copy of Hawkwind's _Take Me To Your Leader_ CD
> would not extract the last track cleanly, leaving skips and static at
> places in the extracted audio.  I had to set EAC on it to get a clean
> DEA finally, and even then I had to increase EAC's timeout for giving up
> because it was taking so long.  (In the end, it took almost 50 minutes
> to extract just that one track cleanly!  When I did visually examine the
> CD it did look a bit scuffed/grubby, which seemed odd for something just
> out of the shrink wrap.)  But, luckily now I have a backup of a clean
> DAE of the entire CD in FLAC format, and so if/when my retail CD goes
> pear shaped I can burn myself another copy.
>
> For live tracks, the "weird ideas where the tracks start and finish" is
> often down to the person laying down the track markers when mastering
> the CD (unless you mean iTunes is being weird on top of that:).
> Sometimes, the index points result in a segue that's just too
> abrupt---at least for my tastes.  In those cases, I suggest if you want
> to go the whole nine yards then you extract the live tracks either side,
> too, and then concatenate them together in an audio editor and trim off
> the parts at the start and the end, along with adding fades, to get it
> precisely as you want it.  You can then save the edited version as a new
> WAV file and use that in your compilation.  There are lots of free audio
> editing applications, like Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net)
> and the likes that will let you do editing of this sort.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
> --
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa