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

[wy.livejournal.com]

foobar :P

[wy.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, and eac + lame .. there's a very good setup guide on ars technica

[tephra]

I rip with WinAmp and then convert the wav files to mp3 or ogg with dbPowerAmp. I have an older freeware version but it works with XP just fine.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

There are some suggestions on Vorbis.com, which is their advocacy / user site.

[yasha-taur.livejournal.com]

If you stick with MP3, iTunes is still a very good may to rip and manage your files. Just go into the preferences, and the Importing button will let you specify the file format and bitrates.

iYunes won't do Ogg, yet....

[reveille-d.livejournal.com]

I used to use CDex almost exclusively before I got an iPod. It'll rip from CD and convert to anything that you have a codec installed for.

[katola.livejournal.com]

Windows Media Player can rip CDs to MP3, as I recall. Never heard of Ogg so I'm no help there.

[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?

[athelind.livejournal.com]

What who where?

[athelind.livejournal.com]

How do you rip with WinAMP?

[tephra]

Open the media library, select your CD drive with a CD in it (it won't show the rip option without a CD in the drive), it will display the tracks. Clicking Rip will pop up a menu with the options to set your preferences, rip selected tracks, or rip them all.

I think the rip function has been there since version 5.0 at least. The free version only rips to wav, but if you buy winamp it can also convert it to mp3. For all I know there's an extension/plugin that will let it encode ogg as well but "off the shelf" it doesn't list ogg (even though it plays them).

[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.

[wy.livejournal.com]

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/encoding.ars

A wee bit dated with the newest stuff, but still very good.

[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*