There have been --many-- threads in this forum about which ripping software to choose, codec selection and setup. Search is your friend.
The undisputed (for more info see: http://www.hydrogenaudio.com) champion of the perfect rip is EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) There is a guide to setting it up for FLAC here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=30959 MP3 here: http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm Some people like other options (mostly for their speed, interface or/and ease-of-setup) but EAC is the most accurate and thus recommended (especially for FLAC where you probably don't want to re-ripping your CDs every again). Different implementations of the MP3 codec vary significantly in sound quality. I'm unsure of the quality of Microsoft's but from a marketing perspective (with their own proprietary WMA format) I'd imagine that the quality of their encoder isn't great. The Lame Mp3 codec is your best bet for MP3 quality. For best sound quality using Lame you'll want to use one of the built in pre-set settings that have been listening tested for best sound quality at various file-sizes. Here is everything you could (probably) ever want to know of it: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=28124 And here is a discussion of which version of Lame (since it is actively developed to improve the speed, quality and size of the files) here: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lame_Compiles ss. -- street_samurai ------------------------------------------------------------------------ street_samurai's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=199 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20808 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
