[kingofsand]

Simple question, I am wondering what you all use to rip a CD to FLAC? I don't care if it's free or not, a good ripper is all I am looking for.
 
Thank you,

 

[PurpleAngel]

The website Majorgeek is full of free programs and I'm sure several of them are good rippers.
I'm not into ripping, so have no idea which program to recommend.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  Simple question, I am wondering what you all use to rip a CD to FLAC? I don't care if it's free or not, a good ripper is all I am looking for.

 

I use MediaMonkey as a ripper and media player. When I rip CDs I still check the tags manually - it can check for them online but there are times when it can't find my music or I just prefer manually tagging them, like if I had a multi-disc live recording they all auto-label these as Albumname_discX then each gets its own tracks numbered 1 to X. I prefer such albums tagged as only AlbumName, then tracks numbered from 1 to 28 for example, so if I play Track 1 it goes all the way to the end of the second disc on a smartphone or DAP.

 

[billybob_jcv]

I've used MediaMonkey to do it.

 

[cel4145]

EAC is a good ripper.

 

[kingofsand]

EAC is a good ripper.

I couldn't find and EAC download that wasn't full of crapware? I'm using media monkey now, seems to be pretty solid. I have hundreds of CDs that I'm ripping so it's going to take some time lol.

 

[WilliamLeonhart]

Btw why would you want to convert a M4A to FLAC? M4A is a lossy format, if you convert it to FLAC the final SQ will be very bad

 

[kingofsand]

I have a lot of m4a files from my years with iTunes, and my X1 coming in doesn't support m4a.

 

[guitargonaut]

  Simple question, I am wondering what you all use to rip a CD to FLAC? I don't care if it's free or not, a good ripper is all I am looking for.
 
Thank you,

 
dbPoweramp is a great ripping utility.  It also comes with a batch converter which will make converting all those m4a files to FLAC easy.  I love the AccurateRip feature...

 

[kingofsand]

dbPoweramp is a great ripping utility.  It also comes with a batch converter which will make converting all those m4a files to FLAC easy.  I love the AccurateRip feature...

I found a ripper that so far is treating me well, I will consider power amp for conversion though.

Thank you,

 

[billybob_jcv]

I would not convert M4A to FLAC. I would just convert to variable bitrate MP3 or AAC. Saves space.

 

[cel4145]

I couldn't find and EAC download that wasn't full of crapware? I'm using media monkey now, seems to be pretty solid. I have hundreds of CDs that I'm ripping so it's going to take some time lol.

I think this is where I got it from (can't remember for certain): http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/

 

[FiJAAS]

There's no benefit by converting lossy audio files to lossless audio files.

 

[kingofsand]

There's no benefit by converting lossy audio files to lossless audio files.

Their is when your media play doesn't support m4a.

 

[FiJAAS]

Their is when your media play doesn't support m4a.

What about converting to another lossy format, like AAC or MP3?