What do i need to rip MP3's

STaN

Right i want to do the following:

rip tracks from albums i have automatically, so i dont have to sit there and do each track 1 by 1.

Is there also a way where it can auto detect the album and download the album information from a website (something like winamp does when you put a music cd into your drive) and add this to the filename and id3 tag?

(not warez, backup for personal use )

Littletinyman

http://www.cdex.n3.net/

astrofool

i use alto mp3 maker: http://www.yuansoft.com/

uses the latest lamenc as well

STaN

can they pull the album and song information and include that in the id3 tag (or whatever their called)

and rename the songs etc to: Artist - Song title.mp3 or does that have to be done manually

Fabritzo

Audio Grabber does all the stuff u mentioned...not for a newbie tho...not for a pro either so try it.....

GoneShootin

RealJukeBox does all of this too I believe

www.real.com

PiE

CDex gets the tracklisting from the CDDB. You can change the tracklist format too (like 'Bandname - Songname.mp3' or 'Bandname - Album - Songname.mp3' etc) and it shows up in the ID3 tags.

Oh and it's unbloated freeware too :]

Ruu_Old

ive used AudioCatalyst for years, works great, like many others probably uses the CDDB thing to find the names of the artist and tracks

daveirl

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Makaveli

I use Musicmatch Jukebox, it also has the cddb lookup.
There's a plugin for the newest version of winamp that lets you rip mp3s too.

daveirl

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Gerry

I use exactaudiocopy. Hope it does a good job of the Scrap Saturday Collection

Makaveli

tbh the only reason I use it is because it also has a burner which means I can just burn off play lists. I'm too lazy to try anthing else.

tman

easy cd-da extractor, tis rippin away at the moment.
seems like a fairly basic prograsm at the first glance, but it has plenty of advanced features hidden away

Runfree

Musicmatch jukebox. I fond this works very good.

Also Easy Cd Creator can be used for ripping CD's


One problem though. some of the new CD's are protected. they can't be ripped(yet)

daveirl

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STaN

Well i got my hands on Easy CD-DA Extractor as per daveirl's post (most detailed )

Its great, does everything i wanted, and only takes 4mins per cd to convert them all to 192k mp3's, nice.

daveirl

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STaN

what about "lame" ?

Lump

Isn't lame supposed to be a really good encoder??* Thats what I use anyway.




John


*I maybe talking bóllox

Makaveli

I was under the impression that lame is used to convert .wav into mp3 and that it doesnt actually rip cds.
For converting .wav into mp3 I use db power amp or Blade Enc.
http://bladeenc.mp3.no/
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

daveirl

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PiE

Used CD-DA earlier on, must say: it's alot faster than CDex :O

daveirl

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