Re: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Brett Boyer
Thanks for the advice. I guess insane is a strong word. I'd like to preserve the music but I don't think I will do flak. Still wondering if ripping to mp3 320k is it worth using eAC? anyway. thanks again bb - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC

Re: Windows Media Centre

2012-02-21 Thread chris hallsworth
Ok, I'll give that a shot. Thanks! Out of curiosity, what exactly does ctrl-f do? Christopher H On 21/02/2012 00:30, Hamit Campos wrote: Ah yeah, just as I thought. Just hit control F until you get to the menu. You'll know because there will be a pause, and you'll hear the menu music which I

Re: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Clifford Blackwell
There is a bit of a learning curve with Eac and I've never been willing to put the time into it. I rip to 320 kbps using Real player and Express Rip from NCH and am very happy with the results. Express Rip is sometimes a bit clunky especially in the looking up of track info. Supporters of

Re: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Doc Wright
Since you are ripping to flac does this mean you have to convert these flac files to another format for your portable players or IOs devices? - Original Message - From: Tim Crawford (GI4OPH) tj.crawf...@talktalk.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday,

RE: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs. mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Christopher Bartlett
For a lossy file format that sounds better (to my ears anyway) then MP3, try ogg. Christopher Bartlett -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brett Boyer Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:29 AM To: PC Audio

Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible]

2012-02-21 Thread Gary King
Holger, I called Audible Customer Service this morning and posed the question about access to my books after termination of membership. The lady assured me that I would continue to have access to my books both on my computers and portable devices. I would also be able to access My Library on

Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible]

2012-02-21 Thread Matt Diemert
To further what gary has told you, I've not been a member of Audible since 2006, and I still have access to all the material that I purchased prior to leaving, and any time I've contacted customer service, they've still assisted me with no reservations. Warm Regards: Matt Diemert On Feb 21,

For Tapin Radio users

2012-02-21 Thread chris hallsworth
Just to let you know a new version 1.54 is available. Here is their latest update that I copied and pasted from their Facebook page. new version 1.54. of Tapin-radio has been released today. Now you can check the connection log in menu/help/About working just for one TR session for you to be

Re: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Scott VanDeWalle
Hello. When I rip cd's i use cdex and rip tomp3 format all the time. Mp3 files are smaller. Wav files areto big for my liking. But, I am going to try to start using wmp for ripping instead. Original message: Ok I don't think I have the space for flak files. I was hoping mp3 at 320k to

RE: Windows Media Centre

2012-02-21 Thread Hamit Campos
It skips things. That's how you go from chapter to chapter when the movie is on. In this case it's going to skip threw the Adds. One at at time so you have to hit it a few times. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of

Re: Windows Media Centre

2012-02-21 Thread chris hallsworth
Ar, cheers! Christopher H On 21/02/2012 17:56, Hamit Campos wrote: It skips things. That's how you go from chapter to chapter when the movie is on. In this case it's going to skip threw the Adds. One at at time so you have to hit it a few times. -Original Message- From:

RE: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Tim Crawford (GI4OPH)
Brett, I would still choose eac for audio extraction, irrespective of which file format the tracks will eventually be output to. In either case, you will obviously wish to have the cd read as accurately as possible. Cheers, Tim. Bangor, N. Ireland. Skype: tim-crawford -Original

RE: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Øyvind Lode
Good to know. Because when I tried it I could not tab around at all (but it's years since I tried it though). -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of G. McFarlane Sent: 21. februar 2012 11:22 To: PC Audio Discussion List

RE: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Tim Crawford (GI4OPH)
Hi, Yes, I also have a duplicate of everything in mp3 format. Initially I used Dbpoweramp to batch convert the whole lot. Now after ripping a cd, I immediately make a copy of the flac files as mp3's. For this I use a program called Trader's little helper. TLH is a very useful little utility

Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible]

2012-02-21 Thread Holger Fiallo
That is good. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Gary King Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:23 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible] Holger, I called Audible Customer Service this morning and posed the question about access to my

Re: ripping my collection: advantages of eAC vs. mainstream rippers

2012-02-21 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Yeh, I tried to switch and start ripping to OGG, it being open source and all, but I had some trouble with the sound quality of some files where I was extracting the audio from a video. I guess I was running into some artifacts converting from one lossy format to another. I'm guessing some of

Creating a playlist with Winamp

2012-02-21 Thread Donald L. Roberts
I am hopeful that another list member will provide step by step instructions of how to create an m3u playlist using Winamp. I do not have Winamp pro, just the regular version of Winamp. Incidentally, I also need to know whether all of the songs in the playlist must be in the same folder. I

RE: Windows Media Centre

2012-02-21 Thread Hamit Campos
Did it work? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of chris hallsworth Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:08 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Windows Media Centre Ar, cheers! Christopher H On 21/02/2012

Re: Creating a playlist with Winamp

2012-02-21 Thread chris ramsay
DON go into winamp then find the play list editor. there you can simply hit the letter l and winamp will say add to playlist editor. then tab over til you find your computer and its folders and navigate to where your favorite songs for the playlist are then select one or many hit