maggior;335514 Wrote: > I have dbpoweramp and have tried the ripper a number of times and I just > find EAC more comfortable for me. I think it is just because it is > familiar and I've used it for soooo long. I can be half awake and work > my way through ripping using the function keys. > > I've tried the whole "rip and encode at the same time" paradigm and I > was satisfied with it. That is until the rip session I had this > weekend. I ripped ~25 discs that had been piling up. I decided to > just rip straight to wave because I was using my laptop with a Plextor > drive in an enclosure and a USB hard disc. I wanted to minimize the > time spent actually ripping the discs since we were going out for the > afternoon. I figured it could chew on the FLAC encoding while we were > gone. Well, as it turns out it took 29 minutes for dbpoweramp's batch > encoder to encode the FLACS. > > Then I fired up foobar2k to tag - that took about 15 seconds (tagging > FLAC is fast since it doesn't have to rewrite the file). This works > for me because I have EAC rip to directories/file names that include > all genre/artist/year/tracknum/title info. > > Then I had foobar2k encode my mp3s for me. That took a couple of > hours. That went on as kids were being bathed and put to bed. > > Different strokes for different folks - but I find this batch method > works best for me as far as efficiency goes. I like to minimize my > time sitting in front of the PC doing the rip process. > > As much as I want dbpoweramp to be my new ripper, I still find myself > using EAC. One thing I do like is dbpoweramp's usage of databases > other than freedb for tag info. For that reason alone, I think I'll > give it another try the next time. It may work out since I've given up > on the encode step being done at the same time as ripping. > > The dbpoweramp batch ripper is awesome and always has been. It is > truely the swiss army knife of digital audio formats!!
I completely understand everyone does things differently. However I really think you are making a lot of extra work for yourself for not much if any gain. You process right now is to rip with one program, encode with another, and then tag with yet another? That is a lot of extra work. Try dbpoweramp R13, it has the best sources of metadata out there. It is as good if not better ripper, and can encode in just about any format known. Also note that with today's processors the encoding is much much faster than ripping. So doing the rip first then encode later step is actually going to be slower even when ripping large numbers of albums. Ripping requires very little CPU time so while it is ripping one track it can encode another. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51253 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
