RE: [OT] Audio Ripping

["Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I second that suggestion... EAC with FLAC as an external compressor.

I spent quite a bit of time figuring out the right command line switches
to populate the FLAC tags, but EAC is at home... If anyone is interested
in the command line, let me know and I'll post it tonight.


Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:05 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Audio Ripping


Have you looked at any lossless compression formats?


With WAV each CD is going to take up 650Mb.

There are a number of lossless formats

FLAC

http://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/


Ben

On 15 Feb 2005, at 15:59, Simon Brazier wrote:

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> Having just lost nearly 90Gb of music files in a hard disk failure
> (the day after purchasing some backup software which had yet to be
> installed), and data recovery programs failing to recover anything,
> I've got to start encoding all of my CDs to hard disk again.
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> I was thinking of doing them all to WAV this time for maximum quality.

> Anyone got any recommendations for a good CD to WAV ripper ? I've had
> a look through the archive and it's about 6 months since this was last

> mentioned so there might be newer solutions around.
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> TIA
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