I'll probably get booed for suggesting this ... but after trying a whole lotta ripping, tagging, and album art tools (and ripping about 200 CDs with them and not liking the end-result from a tag and art perspective), I have settled on Windows Media Player, ripping in WMA Lossless format.
For me, with 800+ CDs to rip, what is most important is getting good tags with minimum effort, and WMA does a more accurate (though not at all perfect) job of retrieving correct tags and album art. So far (with 200 CDs ripped), I am finding that about 10% of my CDs still need the tags and/or art cleaned up - I am using Tag & Rename to clean up the tags, and manual web searches to find the few album covers I'm missing. WMP also allows you to automate the entire process ... pop in a CD and it begins ripping while retrieving the tags, then automatically pops out the CD when done ... no mouse clicks required. It is not the fastest of the ripping tools - Easy CD-DA Extractor seems to rip faster - but because I don't have to do any mouse-clicking with WMP, the end-to-end process appears to take the same amount of time, will less hassle. If your #1 priority is a perfectly accurate rip, then EAC seems to be the way to go. In my case, I am more concerned about getting through my large stack of CDs with minimum pain, and WMP is proving to be best at that. Though I have to admit, I am starting to wish I had just paid Awaken or one of the other ripping services $800 or so to rip my collection for me ... but I chose to spend that money on two more Squeezeboxes instead :-) -- Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20808 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
