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Ripping MY CDs for a jukebox project
Spaced Invader:
--- Quote from: drewkaree on March 22, 2004, 10:29:25 pm ---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
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When ripping with Windows Media Player you need to make sure "Copy Protect Music" is unchecked under the "tools/options/copy music" pulldown. Otherwise, you can't play it on other computers. ;)
allroy1975:
boy this thread got long, so I appologize if this was covered. I got bored and quit reading. ::)
I have used Audiograbber for YEARS. a couple of the BEST features of it are:
it allows you to run multiple instances of the program. If you have 2 CD rom drives (or 3 or 4) you can be ripping that many CDs at the same time. Yeah it slows down more than if you're just doing one, BUT, you can watch TV, or sleep or go to work while it's ripping a bunch of CDs for you.
You can use external codecs. I have always loved the sound of the Fraunhauffer codec, but I know a lot of people are partial to VBR with LAME. It'll use either of those.
speaking again to running multiple instances of the program at the same time.....it has an option to copy all the wavs to the hard drive, THEN start encoding. So, when it's done copying the files to the hard drive, you just open another copy of the program, throw in another CD and start the next one. So, even if you only have 1 or 2 CD drives, you can still be ripping/encoding like 10 CDs at a time.
I had to do this when I was building my mp3car. The program was VERY important to the initial push. Of course now, I hardly ever rip more than 1 CD at a time because I don't get them that often, but I still love AudioGrabber.
And it's written by Jackie the Late Night Hacker.
how cool is that? ;)
Allroy
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