Ripping at work

[GadgetGeek]

As I gear up to rip my CD collection (to FLAC in an attempt to "future proof" my effort) I'm looking to take advantage of some idle time on my PC at work and rip a few each day.  My issue is how to best do this WITHOUT installing any software on the computer.

So I'm looking for software that would run from CD (or USB drive).  I *think* the FLAC encoder will run OK from CD.  So I'd be looking for a front-end that would read the CD, hit CDDB/FreeDB, and call the FLAC encoder.

Before it is suggested, WMA Lossless isn't an option since that codec isn't installed (and won't be).

Any thoughts?

[More_Beer]

I wouldn't attempt this. For the fact that, well, even if you get a program to run from CD, you would be accessing 2 drives at once. One for the program, one for the CD you are ripping.

This could lead to errors in the ripping process, and not giving you the best rip possible.

I would be ripping from a program installed onto a hard drive. You only have to rip a CD once, so you may aswell do it properly the first time.

 

[richms]

EAC works without installing, should be fine off a USB drive, so long as you have aspi level access on the machine, which you usually do if nero is installed.

[DrewKaree]

EAC works without installing, should be fine off a USB drive, so long as you have aspi level access on the machine, which you usually do if nero is installed.

Not certain if it matters.  Using the ASPI with EAC for 2000/XP machines, it is (was?) dumped into the EAC folder, so it should be accessing it from within that same folder.