[ingwe]

Although most of my rips are 320mp3, now that I have the room on my ip160, I'm re-ripping selected CD's (to start) to lossless. Little-by-little, getting it done!

Eventually, I have a gazillion vinyl records to rip (if that's the term).

 

[krmathis]

Yes, lossless sure is the way to go these days!
Especially since storage space are very cheap...

 

[majid]

I would also advise you to use a secure ripper like EAC or Max rather than iTunes.

 

[chowk]

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Originally Posted by majid /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would also advise you to use a secure ripper like EAC or Max rather than iTunes.

x2

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by majid /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would also advise you to use a secure ripper like EAC or Max rather than iTunes.

True. He will be much better off using Max or EAC, instead of iTunes.

 

[Luckyleo]

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Originally Posted by majid /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would also advise you to use a secure ripper like EAC or Max rather than iTunes.

Can you explain why?

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by Luckyleo /img/forum/go_quote.gif Can you explain why?

Because they have ripper engines designed specifically to rip bad sectors correctly (ex. from a scratched CD). C2 errors being one of them

 

[NeObliviscaris]

I hav been using EAC to rip into FLAC, then I convert to ALAC using DBPowerAmp!

 

[MonolithTMA]

For perfect rips (If you are a Windows user) using EAC check out:
jiGGafellz' Step-by-Step Guide to Secure CD Ripping w/Exact Audio Copy

 

[hempcamp]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Because they have ripper engines designed specifically to rip bad sectors correctly (ex. from a scratched CD). C2 errors being one of them

And are much more of a pain to use, IMO.

For me, iTunes does just fine for the majority of ripping. Only when I run into a problematic CD do I switch to Max.

--Chris

 

[Milk and Coffee]

Is any secure ripper for mac os out there??

 

[TURBO]

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Originally Posted by Milk and Coffee /img/forum/go_quote.gif Is any secure ripper for mac os out there??

Check this one out: http://sbooth.org/Max/

 

[apnk]

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Originally Posted by hempcamp /img/forum/go_quote.gif And are much more of a pain to use, IMO. For me, iTunes does just fine for the majority of ripping. Only when I run into a problematic CD do I switch to Max. --Chris

I agree, I use Foobar to rip into FLAC and then convert it lame mp3 for my ipod. BTW Foobar rips in secure mode but it is not a pain like EAC.

 

[TURBO]

I can say, from now on I will use Max. I ripped few Cd's. They sounded scratchy when ripped with Itunes (lossless). Max did it perfectly using (paranoia).

 

[Milk and Coffee]

Thx TURBO

PS: can MAX also directly import a cd to ALAC? I didn't found any codec...