[Empeg-general] Re: I've never ripped CD's and I want to do it right

[Steve Schow]

I too, like Audiograbber very very much...

-steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Fox [mailto:Bagpuss@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:09 PM
> To: empeg-general@empeg.merlins.org
> Subject: [Empeg-general] Re: I've never ripped CD's and I 
> want to do it
> right
> 
> 
> The best compromise that I've found for encoding is to use 
> Audiograbber as the front end, and Lame as the encoder.
> 
> Audiograbber is the front end that Xing use for 
> AudioCatalyst, and it is certainly the best that I've found. 
> You can find it at http://www.audiograbber.com.
> 
> I did try EAC, but found that it was too slow given the 
> number of CDs that I had to encode (over 400). I have found 
> that the combination of a 32x Plextor SCSI CD-Rom drive and 
> AudioGrabber gives equal quality. I have never encountered a 
> single pop or click in any track grabbed with this 
> combination, and I've now grabbed my entire CD collection.
> 
> On the subject of encoding, AudioGrabber has a great feature 
> which allows you to grab multiple CDs into one directory, 
> whilst preserving the ID3 header information in the WAV header.
> 
> You then simply drag and drop all of the WAVs from Explorer 
> onto the AudioGrabber window and it begins encoding them all. 
> The best bit of all is that it creates a directory structure of:
> 
> Artist -> Album Name -> Track.mp3
> 
> and then deletes the original WAV when it's done encoding.
> 
> Using this technique I was able to grab about 40 CDs at a 
> time to WAV, and then simply leave the computer overnight to 
> do the encoding of all of them.
> 
> Andy.
> 
> 
> 
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