amcananey
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Is there any sort of consensus on what is currently the best CD-Rom/DVD/Blu-ray drive for ripping audio CDs? By best, I mean as measured by the following three factors:
1) Speed when ripping CDs
2) Error correction (or lack of errors in the first place)
3) Ability to rip copy-protected CDs
I know Plextor drives used to be considered the best, but I don't know if they have been overshadowed by something else now.
BTW, I really only care about performance when ripping CDs. I don't care about or need any other features.
To explain point 3) above, I do not have a traditional CD player. I buy CDs, then use EAC and React to rip them simultaneously to Apple Lossless, FLAC and MP3. Yet every once in a while I buy a CD that has some kind of stupid copy protection on it and I can't rip it with my drive at home, even though the crappy, cheap, portable, slow external CD-Rom drive that came with my laptop at work has no problem ripping the same CDs. This is flat-out infuriating. These CDs are invariably widely available on the internet for illegal downloading, but as someone buying my music the old-fashioned way and putting cash into the record companies' coffers, I wind up getting ripped off and holding CDs that are useless to me.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Best regards,
Adam
1) Speed when ripping CDs
2) Error correction (or lack of errors in the first place)
3) Ability to rip copy-protected CDs
I know Plextor drives used to be considered the best, but I don't know if they have been overshadowed by something else now.
BTW, I really only care about performance when ripping CDs. I don't care about or need any other features.
To explain point 3) above, I do not have a traditional CD player. I buy CDs, then use EAC and React to rip them simultaneously to Apple Lossless, FLAC and MP3. Yet every once in a while I buy a CD that has some kind of stupid copy protection on it and I can't rip it with my drive at home, even though the crappy, cheap, portable, slow external CD-Rom drive that came with my laptop at work has no problem ripping the same CDs. This is flat-out infuriating. These CDs are invariably widely available on the internet for illegal downloading, but as someone buying my music the old-fashioned way and putting cash into the record companies' coffers, I wind up getting ripped off and holding CDs that are useless to me.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Best regards,
Adam