Rrrrrrip!

[athelind]

quelonzia got Your Obedient Serpent an MP3 player for Yule. It's a Samsung, and will play MP3, WMA, ASF and Ogg Vorbis files!

Now, while I've got an unruly pile of assorted MP3s on my system, I'd like to start converting my CD collection to the format, so I can take my favorite albums along with me. Any recommendations for good CD conversion software?

My OS is Windows XP, and I don't trust DRM files, proprietary formats, or iTunes. Something that outputs to Ogg would be terrific, but MP3 is entirely acceptable.

Comments

[araquan.livejournal.com]

I'll insert a second vote for iTunes as it generally does a pretty good rip, is a decent on-computer player for when you're tethered to the desk, and does not inject DRM into your MP3 files. Just in case you thought it did...

[athelind.livejournal.com]

So is it released by an entirely different division from Apple than the people who manage the iTunes store and reserve the right to break the files you buy from them whenever they please?

[yasha-taur.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, there has never been any issue with Apple 'breaking' any bought files from the iTunes store. As with any DRM, if the user screws up, all bets are off.....

But the DRM in iTunes music files is actually much more 'open' and tolerable than any of the competing music stores online with WMA files. The only compliant that I have is that they are AAC (not MP3) and encoded at 128k.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

I'd be most interested in hearing of any instance of them actually doing that... A link to the policy stating that would be most appreciated as well.

But since we both rip MP3s from CDs rather than buying from the iTunes store, it's effectively a nonissue either way. *shrug*