Ripping CD's

[zudmsc]

What is a quick way to rip CD's??  I have about 300 or so that I need to do.  I was using Windows Media Player to do it, but is there a quicker and easier way?

Zud

[Space Fractal]

I have used  CDeX (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/index.html) in years.

Make sure to look on all config options. It have dir mask features and ID1&ID2 tag features and support for CDDB. It also rip to other formats then mp3

[delta88]

look up EAC (exact audio copy) you'll need to install LAME audio encoder with it. its a nice little app that supports CDDB and can help repair skips in cd's as they rip. Rips in a variable bitrate form.

[whammoed]

Don't know if its any quicker than what you are doing but there is a sticky in this very forum:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=19496.0
I had over 100 to do and it went pretty quick.

[richms]

I have loads of MP3s which were ripped with cdex by a friend. Wherever there was a defect on the disc, the audio just cuts out, there's also loads of stutters in the sound on them.

Second vote for EAC, just don't use burst mode, thats as poor as any other ripper. Install the accurate rip plugin and you can compare your CRCs with other people to know if you have a good rip or not.

[pmc]

Whether or not you use CDex or EAC, set it up to use LAME to create VBRs. The default in EAC is to use Blade to make 128 or 256 kbit CBRs.

I use LAME 3.97b2 and '--preset standard' (V2) and the results are excellent sounding and fairly small in size. b3 came out recently but for the most part it's functionally identical to b2.

I use Cdex to encode WAV/FLAC/SHN files, and EAC to rip from CDs. Either way, LAME is envoked to do the actual encoding.

-pmc

[StephenH]

iTunes works pretty well for ripping