>I like EAC, too, and to be honest I don't know what features have been >added to EAC over the past 1-2 years. But what makes dBpoweramp easier >for me (compared to EAC 1-2 years ago) is (1) support for album replay >gain, instead of EAC's track gain only, (2) use of superior metadata >sources, meaning less fixing of basic tags, (3) ability to enter any >other tags (eg ARTISTSORT) at rip time, and (4) automatic downloading >of album art (which I believe EAC has now). All that is worth at least >$36 to me, YMMV.
For me, I use EAC to do a simple rip, and then use Mp3Tag to tidy any tags up. That doesn't often involve a lot, i.e. with track titles, except sometimes people put keywords in track titles that I move into other tags, eg If there was "[Live]" on the end of a track title, I would move it to a genre. For me, Mp3Tag is the best tool for that sort of job, as I have created various scripts to automate some tidy up operations, and I can filter/sort, etc. I don't see much need to fix tags before/during ripping with dBPowerAmp - it's easier to do it in a dedicated tag editor. Unless you get the full licenced version of dBPowerAmp, it also doesn't do parallel activities, unlike EAC. eg. EAC can rip songs, and in parallel encode the rips into FLAC. I think with dBPowerAmp it is single-threaded (I have Registered Power Pack Release 14) - rips one track, encodes it, then rips the next, etc, so overall it takes quite a bit longer. Also I find dBPowerAmp UI a bit awkward. Unless the window is sized quite wide, you lose a stuff on the right-hand edge (eg. notes). i.e. no scrollbars or re-ordering of widgets to make it fit. I like to organise windows to use small amount of space so I can see several apps at once (eg. ripper, tagger and Foobar for my production ripping session, as I rip several CD's in a batch - Rip with EAC, tag with Mp3Tag, Analyse with MusicIP, Play in Foobar and add ReplayGain). dBPowerAmp attempts to do too much and doesn't excel in everything. I think dBPowerAmp is great, BTW, so I'm not complaining about it, but I only really use it for music conversions (eg. for encoding my FLAC rips to other formats for upload to Phone or iPod, etc). _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
