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Summo

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Just picking yer brains, peeps...

What's the best downloadable software for converting CD tracks to mp3s? I've just tried a couple of random ones and they seem pretty poor.

You lot are good at this illegal stuff... what's the tool for the job?
 
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Daffeh

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ive found Audio Catalyst to be a good program

havent needed to use anything else
 
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stu

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Audiocatalyst uses the Xing codec, which is embarrassingly shite. Your best option is EAC (which uses LAME, far and away the best option for MP3s), or a similar LAME utility - I use EAC because it's a piece of piss. Oh, and -r3mix, obviously.

More here and here
 
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Summo

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Top stuff. Thanks all. :)

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Summo

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I'm using both of them as we speak. Doing the job very nicely. Thanks awfully. :)
 
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Scouse

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You lot are good at this illegal stuff... what's the tool for the job?
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What's illegal about making legitamate back-ups of CD's you've bought and own???? ;)
 
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Sar

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Hehe, actually it's perfectly legal, and you're entitled to by law. Sony etc is actually breaking the law by slapping these (albeit shit) security systems on their CDs, which try to prevent you copying the CD.

After all, record companies get royalty payments from the manufacturers of blank tapes etc.













PS: I'm rather pissed, so excuse any typos.

:D
 
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Scouse

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What pisses me off is that it's going to be illigal to break that copy protection to make your legitamate copy.

Nice to be run by europe innit. :(

Having said that Tony BLiar would have probably fucked us over too .......
 
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Sar

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You don't have to break it, just stick the cd into a DVD-Rom drive, it'll bypass the security nps.
 
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old.Explosive23

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Originally posted by Scouse
Having said that Tony BLiar would have probably fucked us over too .......
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But you'd like that wouldn't you? :D
 
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Perplex

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A lot of people will say "Lame" because it's supposed to be better overall quality output than most others, however, LAME takes FOR EVER to encode.

Personally I use AudioCatalyst for the 60+ gbs of music I have encoded (uses the Xing encoder)
 
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caLLous

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Heh heh, the conversation turned from "how do I rip mp3's?" to "oh woe is me, europe sucks" within just over 2 hours. I wub this forum. :D

And btw, I use LAME with the LAME GUI. I don't rip my own cd's that much (I've pretty much done them all now, so it's just new stuff that gets ripped) and it's nice to rip them at 96-256 VBR or something as nice. Reduces file size and sounds better than 128 CBR or whaterver. :)
 
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Perplex

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I always encode at 320bps CBR - why compromise? I'm an audiophile, and storage is not a problem. If the original CD ever became damaged I'd be so angry that I didn't encode it at the best possible quality to make a new copy (and let's face it, VBR is pretty fucking far from 'best quality')
 
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[q3p]Cyrus

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I use MusicMatch - it does what I want and I believe a Crack is available... but I don't have it... :D

Cheers
Cyrus
 
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Perplex

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Originally posted by [q3p]Cyrus
I use MusicMatch - it does what I want and I believe a Crack is available... but I don't have it... :D

Cheers
Cyrus
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No warez, or warez talk please
 
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Ono

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Originally posted by SomeGuy
I'm using both of them as we speak. Doing the job very nicely. Thanks awfully. :)
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Cool.

Does this mean we'll be able to get hold of your Village People collection on Kazza soon? :p
 
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caLLous

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Turn that music right up Perp, go on, really turn it right up, and you'll realise that my MP3's sound better. Well, you won't, because you haven't heard my MP3's, but I'm sure you can see where I'm coming from on this one.

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Perplex

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Originally posted by caLLous
Turn that music right up Perp, go on, really turn it right up, and you'll realise that my MP3's sound better. Well, you won't, because you haven't heard my MP3's, but I'm sure you can see where I'm coming from on this one.

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320bps CBR is better than ANY rate VBR....320bps CBR is the best rate you can encode at, who cares if the files are huge. The whole point of VBR is that it tries to save filespace by cutting out a lot of the sound spectrum in "quiet" parts of the song and stuff. The more you reduce a filesize, the lower the quality becomes

That is an inescapable fact, and you can argue it till you're blue in the face - you won't be right
 
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caLLous

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If HD space is of no concern (as I just saw you say earlier) then by all means waste it. HD space isn't of much concern to me either, but it doesn't mean that it won't be at some point in the future, and therefore I like to encode at the highest quality possible (which is more than acceptable) whilst saving on the size of the file. The fact is, you don't lose anything audible by going along the VBR path - yes, as you rightly say "the more you reduce a filesize, the lower the quality becomes", but if it's inaudible quality that you're losing, what's the difference?

And you could encode your MP3's at 256 or 192 and not be able to tell the difference by the way. :)
 
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Perplex

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I can tell the difference on this set up here mate. Added to which, I can tell the difference between CD and 320bps encoded music. I just have a *very* keen ear
 
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Wilier

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So does it make any difference (CBR vs VBR) if youve got a personal MP3 player, where space is a definate issue?
 
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caLLous

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It depends Wilier, I've known some players that don't accept VBR at all - it confuses the hell out of them. That was a while ago though, so maybe you can use VBR with them now. :)
 
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Xavier

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my current personal fave is the fraunhofer-codec powered cyberlink plugin for WMP - cddb isn't as good but it has nice little touches like downloading the album covers for folder icons and auto syncs with my mp3 players...

i've gotta ask this perp - what audio hardware do u use? i.e. soundcard/speakers?
 
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