How dose Head-fi Rip their music?

dBpoweramp, because its the best. They give you a 30 day trial before it reverts to the free version, I'm not sure the difference because I use the paid version.

and follow their guide for secure ripping: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper-setup-guide.htm

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Originally Posted by brydon10 

dBpoweramp, because its the best. They give you a 30 day trial before it reverts to the free version, I'm not sure the difference because I use the paid version.

 

and follow their guide for secure ripping: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper-setup-guide.htm

Yep dBpoweramp for me too. The ripping is great and customizable and the batch converter is a lifesaver for those of us with ALAC libraries and FLAC-only portables

I begin by washing my fuzzy warbles on a VPI 16.5 using a 2 step process.

Then I place said vinyl back in its sleeve for a day or so to dry off.

I turn on the ADC and the phono stage. 

I plug in the recorder. In my case I use an Iriver IHP120 on digital inputs

Then I put the vinyl on the platter.

I turn on the turtletable

I brush the record with a CF record brush

I brush the needle with a nylon brush

I begin the recording of the digital stream

I place the needle in the groove. 

Done.

I use dbpoweramp as well.

some at head-fi will say EAC is best. Especially for scratched cd's. Personally, dBPoweramp is only used as a file format converter. I use EAC for my ripping.

I find that sometimes dbpoweramp will have access to a better tagging database than foobar, so I'll use that as a ripper.  Another vote for that program from me.

I rip CDs to wav format with EAC. Then I use CDex with the latest LAME version to convert to MP3. Tagging is done with MP3Tag.

EAC for sure. Use the BlowFish guide to set up the program. It's really helpful to read the whole thing so you can understand why you need to use the setting the way the guide says. It will make you appreciate it more and be more comfortable in knowing you have bit perfect rips from your CDs. I just ripped 3 CDs as soon as I opened the package and I compared the FLAC files with the CDs on a Luxman D-08 player http://www.davidmichaelaudio.com/pc-394-4-luxman-d-08-cdsacd-music-player-dac.aspx and a Bel Canto DAC3.5VB http://www.davidmichaelaudio.com/pc-411-5-bel-canto-eone-dac35vb-dac-control-center.aspx. The sound was perfect with the FLAC file. The speakers I listened to were Harbeth Super HL5. http://www.davidmichaelaudio.com/pm-54-17-harbeth-super-hl-5.aspx

used to use EAC, but dbpoweramp is just nicer to use and does cover art automatically ^_^

you know, wmp is probably just fine, too :)

i use itunes in lossless, stored on an external hdd. good enough for me :)

Ditto on the iTunes and Apple Lossless....i like what I get, and it syncs to my iphone/ipad no problem....well, chews up a little space, but hey, space is cheap now!

I use dbPowerAmp to rip to Apple Lossless.  I used EAC for a couple of years, but because I rip to ALAC, EAC isn't the best.  It uses iTunes to convert from WAV to ALAC.  dbPowerAmp uses Nero.  Nero is much less of a resource hog.  I still use EAC for the few discs that haven't ripped accurately in dbPowerAmp.  Unfortunately, most don't rip accurately with EAC either.  The big advantage of dbPowerAmp is the number of databases it looks up the disc on as opposed to EAC just looking in freedb.