>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/07/06 11:05 AM >>> > > 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.
Not laughed at. Maybe pointed at and made to feel uncomfortable, but never laughed at! ;-) > 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. And for me, the most important aspect is getting good rips without involving anything Windows. I think it is an awesome testament to Slim Devices that, while you and I obviously have different goals, slimserver meets both of them quite well! > 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. 10% isn't bad. Have you found a website that satisfies the majority of your needs? I've been looking for such a place (other than Amazon) with very little luck. > 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. WMP doesn't work for me, only because I don't run Windows, but even if I were on Windows, WMP wouldn't do because WMP doesn't do flac or any of the other multi-platform lossless audio codecs. I used EAC and it was very nice. > 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. I hadn't even read the next paragraph when I typed my statement above. Very ironic! What I don't understand is why, if you spent your money on a CD you liked in the first place, are you not concerned about the audio quality? Tags are easy to fix while you're sitting there chilling out having a drink and relaxing. Ripping a CD again because I didn't copy the track correctly is a huge pain. > 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 :-) ...or slim devices. Then you'd have (in addition to the original media) a DVD set of backups of your music! But I hear ya on wanting to buy more Squeezeboxen. Paul _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
