If you are thinking about using EAC and the flac2mp3 script, you might want to check out a product called "Easy CD-DA Extractor" (http://www.poikosoft.com/). I found a reference to it in another forum entry (I am surprised it doesn't get mentioned more often) and have been messing around with it the past few days.
It has a nice GUI ... can rip in many formats ... automatically pulls song data from freedb ... does error recovery for scratched CDs ... and is very customizable. It also includes an audio file converter, so you can rip your CDs as FLAC or some other lossless format, then do a batch conversion of them to a format that your iPod can deal with ... all from a GUI. Like you, I am about to rip a whole lotta CDs (1,200 in my case) ... my plan is to keep two copies of everything, a lossless copy (FLAC, in my case) and a lossy copy. I am choosing FLAC for the lossless because I understand that the Squeezebox decodes it natively. I am pretty new to ripping music, and am trying to make this process as painless as possible; so far I am quite impressed with the Easy CD-DA tool. My only two complaints are that (1) it doesn't pull album art (but there are scripts available to do this) and (2) the documentation is not great (but there is a forum available). -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20066 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
