What's the best method to rip CD to HDD?

[eclectic2k]

Re: Re: Re: somthing doesn't add up

I'd rather keep the full, uncompressed tracks. No questions about quality, accuracy and if I want to compress to use somewhere else I can.
Makes sense to me.

Again, as someone stated:
"It makes no difference, except WAV takes more space."

Everything that you said about wav is true for FLAC. Lossless is lossless. No questions about quality, accuracy and if I want to transcode to use somewhere else I can.

Because FLAC is lossless, you can:
a) decode back to wav anytime (and diff the files if you care)
b) transcode (decode stream into another encoder) to any other format lossy or lossless without issue.
c) decode, listen and be happy

I store everything as FLAC. I transcode to lowish bitrate MP3 for my portable in the car. (sound quality there isn't so good anyway 😉

I'm much more concerned about accuracy of rips of course, using EAC with accuraterip this is not so much of an issue anymore.

disk space is cheap, but not that cheap. Why waste 50% for no reason. (main drive, backup drive, portable drives...)

-CK

 

[dangus]

And perhaps a more compelling reason than disc space is time to process that stored music. If you're copying, moving, or checksuming (is that a word?) many gigabytes of music, cutting that time by 40% or more is a significant saving.

By the way, here's a very convenient checksum tool to verify files, folders, etc. I think it's free if you don't wear clothes.
;o) checksum for Windows

 

[cloudy]

1) EAC
2) EAC can grab that information from a CDDB.

Thank you Evil, loking for this .

 

[kop89]

Album art

Is there an easy way to add album art to the files that I have ripped using EAC?

I am using Media Monkey to play the files.

Thanks!

 

[eclectic2k]

I don't know about EAC. I use media monkey to grab the album art. (use it's auto tagging function, but uncheck everything but the art - IIRC...)