CD Ripping Software

Just wondering what most people are using to rip their CDs. Also, what is the ideal ID3 order to use (ie Artist-Album-Track#-Song)

Originally Posted by crow610

Just wondering what most people are using to rip their CDs. Also, what is the ideal ID3 order to use (ie Artist-Album-Track#-Song)

I personaly use CDGrab (it 's furnished with dBpowerAMP) : easy to use and fast, with tags and FLAC convertion if you want ! My ID3 order is [Artist] - [Album]\[track number xx] - [Track] !

I use windows media player, works fine for me, and when i put my songs in my miniplyer they show up correctly so...

Me too. WMP11 works fine for me.

WMP11. Easy and good (original Fraunhofer MP3 codec)

I use Exact Audio Copy - It's a swine to set up but the quality, as the name suggests, is absolutely perfect. I then use lame 3.97 to encode the mp3s or FLAC if it's something I want to have at best quality.

I organise my songs in directories as
\artist\album\CD Number[if any]\Artist - Track Number - Title.mp3

Use Easy CD-DA Extractor. Not only will it rip your CDs and sort out tags, but it will also convert to and from just about any audio format going.

WMP11 or MediaMonkey.

Track name: [Artist] - [Song Name]

What software you use to rip CDs scarcely matters -- there are many fine choices. What matters is that you rip to a lossless archiving format like FLAC or Wavpack and then make sure the tag information is accurate and as you like it. Tagging is the most grueling part for me, because the online tag info providers are appallingly badly edited and, often, wrong. I use MP3Tag for editing.
FWIW, I rip with EAC 0.95b3, usually as individual tracks to FLAC, and then convert to whatever lossy format I need (*.ogg at Q 4.5 with the codec from http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/index.htm ). The converter I use is foobar2000 with the command line:
-s %r -Q -q4.5 - -o %d
With CDs that blend from one track to another -- like Beatles Love 2006 or many mixed trance compilations -- I rip to Wavpack with an embedded cue file. That permits one to individually play tracks , but only in Foobar. Note that Wavpack is dramatically faster, but FLAC is more broadly supported.

Thanks for the info! Have one more quick question..
If using MP3 compression, what is the best bitrate to use?

Originally Posted by crow610

Thanks for the info! Have one more quick question..
If using MP3 compression, what is the best bitrate to use?

For me it's 192 kps. Higher is dangerous :D (see here !)

Originally Posted by xx-c

For me it's 192 kps. Higher is dangerous :D (see here !)

Ohhhh...so is this a problem with the player or are most like this?

Ogg Vorbis Q 4.5 -- nominal 144 kbps VBR -- is comparable or better than AAC files from Apple's iTunes store at file sizes more than 10 per cent smaller. At bit rates over 80 kbps it beats all competition, and the encoding-speed-optimized Blacksword builds are far faster than the competition.
Since Meizu plays Ogg, why not use it? If you've got archived music in lossless FLAC or WV, you can convert to whatever you favor for any future player.
But, for creating MP3s for my old Rio Carbon, I set up a conversion profile in Foobar pointing to the latest LAME executable downloaded from http://rarewares.org/mp3.html ; that currently is 3.98 beta 3 and will be the first ZIP file listed. Read the LAME wiki at http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME
Visit www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums for current discussion.
My LAME command line in Foobar 2000 is
-V4 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 17.5 -b56 --scale 0.99 --athaa-sensitivity 1 - %d
There is no best bit rate except that Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is very much better at a given file size than is a Constant Bit Rate (CBR) file at the same size. Why waste bits encoding silence or simple passages?
My LAME command line produces VBR files at a nominal 168 kbps -- probably superior to the 160 kbps (CBR) AAC files that the iTunes store sells.
But, go for Ogg!

i use dbpower amp cd ripper
it got a id3 libaray

greetz Danny