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Ripping MY CDs for a jukebox project
DrewKaree:
It's in the latest, greatest issue of MaximumPC, April 2004, the issue with the cover "The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Guide!", p.36 to be exact. I'm a-gonna type it up in a short second or two so as to help someone else. It ain't that big, if I just give the pertinent details.
AFAIK, the .wma issue could have just been with this guy's computer. He was running WinME, which was "all about" media, and I know for certain that after copying a CD full of wma's to his computer (AND making sure all of the files were NOT "read-only" files), he couldn't use a single one of them. I figured he had media player, wma's were smaller=more files (same reasoning as you there), so go with that. It popped up a little box about the license, and that little episode was enough to curse m$ yet again, and swear off using them for music.
I don't disagree completely with using wma's, just my bad experience. I'm not a fan of M$ at all, and if there's something else out there, I AL-WAYS recommend that.
BTW, please note the intended humor directed at you in calling you an m$ commie! I ;D
Generic Eric:
--- Quote from: drewkaree on March 22, 2004, 12:30:13 am ---<snipped> Once they figure out a way to charge us for creating mp3's it's all over.
--- End quote ---
Or back to audio tapes ;)
DrewKaree:
You are referring, OF COURSE, to 8-tracks, right? ;) :-X
Generic Eric:
I think I have made up my own mind. I got an Ipod this am from what I have read, the native format that iTunes rips in is AAC. Winamp plays those files as well. I will try it out, if I like it, I will do the rest of my cds in AAC. Then I will "re-rip" my cds that currently make up my mp3 collection.
I'd like some comments from ya'll. Do any of you have any expierience with AAC?
krick:
MP3 is the de-facto standard in compressed music formats. I recommend that you stick with MP3. Who knows if other formats will be supported in the future. I'd hate to rip my whole collection of 800+ CDs to some format and find out years later that the format has been abandoned.
For my ripping, I have always used Audiograbber (now freeware)...
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
...combined with "LAME" a free MP3 encoder...
http://jthz.com/~lame/
One handy setting for audiograbber...
go to: settings -> general settings -> naming tab
make sure "artist as directory" and "album as directory" are unchecked,
then check the "advanced" box, and enter this string (without the quotes)...
"%0 - %2 - %3 - %4|%2 - %3 - %1 - %4"
What this does is configures how audiograbber names your files...
...for single artist CDs, it uses the first half of the pattern...
ArtistName - AlbumName - Track# - TrackTitle.mp3
...for compilation (multi-artist) CDs, it uses the second half of the pattern...
AlbumName - Track# - ArtistName - TrackTitle.mp3
I keep all my MP3 files in one directory using this long filename system. It makes it really easy to use filename sorting to find what I want. I can also do a search on keywords in the filename to find all tracks by a certain artist for instance.
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