If you have a lot of ripping ahead of you then you owe it to yourself to take a look at dBpoweramp. It does secure ripping like EAC, and takes advantage of AccurateRip (which EAC can also do, but only if you take a couple extra steps to enable it). Where I think dBpoweramp is really special is its tagging. It uses multiple sources, including the extraordinarily good AMG, and I've found the metadata it provides almost flawless with popular music; it's not as strong with classical because all the databases stink on classical. dBpoweramp also makes it easy to add other tags at rip time, such as ARTISTSORT and both track _and_album_ replay gain. EAC only does track gain.
dBpoweramp isn't free, but I think the Reference version is well worth the US$36. There is a $5 annual fee for access to the "Perfect Metadata" -- the first year's charge is included in the $36. It has a free 30 day trial period. No personal affiliation with dBpoweramp, just a satisfied customer, yada yada yada. www.dbpoweramp.com -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78568 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
