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CD Ripping Services Compared

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the codec-schmodec dept.

RX8 writes "Designtechnica compares a number of CD ripping services and talks about the differences in services, price and which formats they will rip your music to. The guide compares 6 different services, all of which are somewhat different in what they do. Ripping services are gaining in popularity because they make it so easy to convert (a.k.a. rip) your entire collection into MP3 files for your portable media device."

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  1. KDE's cool ripper by mayhemt · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was sometime back when I was playing around with KDE & SuSe. I was searching sourceforge/freshmeat for some cool ripper. they were problems compilin & shit with them. I poked around into /mnt/cdrom in konqueror & HOLY SHIT it has mp3 & ogg vorbis folders. I was shocked to see mp3 supplied by the CD manufacture. later i came to know it was KDE's feature!!! All i had to was copy/paste folder into HD partitions...i was like holy goddamn! KDE has an inbuilt ripper. thats it, i never searched for a ripper. just My 2c.

  2. Re:Jesus H. Christ by Lehk228 · · Score: 3, Informative

    i think the bigger problem was that anyone could download a CDDB CD ID list and get whatever the fark they wanted form mp3.com

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  3. Re:scratches by BillPosters · · Score: 5, Informative
    Toothpaste... (seriously).

    Or Brass/Silver polish. Rub a bit on with a soft cloth and You should be able to get all but the worst scratches out of your CDs.

  4. Re:FLAC by chronicon · · Score: 3, Informative
    FLAC is overkill unless you want to rebuild your audio CDs in their pristine state. If your are going strictly for archival purposes, FLAC is the way to go. For everything else, ripping to OGG Vorbis at quality 5-6 is quite acceptable, IMO. I started out way too low initially, but 6 is ~192kbps and sounds quite good--that is what I am sticking with these days. Can all but the most discerning ear tell the difference between these files and the originals? I really doubt it...

    I'm not going to send my CDs to one of these services, I have been in the process of ripping my entire collection to Vorbis for quite some time. No rush, I have a lot done--enough to entertain me while I am in the process of finishing the rest...

  5. Re:Why pay?!? by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 4, Informative
    Call it flame bait, but what's wrong with Windows Media Player 10? Toss in a CD, switch to the RIP tab, turn off the DRM option and rip to MP3 or WMA.

    Nothing wrong with that. But I gotta say, iTunes is even better in this department. You can set it to automatically rip the disc (to codex/bitrate x) when the disc is inserted, and eject automatically when finished. I did my CD collection this way; basically when I went to watch a movie or was reading, I'd just open the laptop next to me and put in the next disc when I heard the whir of the last disc ejecting. No clicking at all.

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  6. I did 4,000+ CDs myself, it took a couple of hours by macslut · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a collection of 4,259 CDs. It took me a couple of hours to rip the CDs including lyrics.

    Oh, it took my Mac almost a month to rip them, but why would I could cpu cycles as *my* time? iTunes makes ripping damn easy and with PearLyrics you can get lyrics automatically added (for songs it can find).

    What I did was connect 3 external CD drives and I had 2 internal drives. I would then load up my trays with 5 discs. I had iTunes set to auto-import an eject.

    Minimal effort and very rewarding. Even if I only had 1 drive, it would still have been very easy...but with the money I was saving, I could've not only bought additional drives, I could've bought a new Mac as well.

    I simply can't imagine paying for the service...especially when it involves shipping the discs.