m1abrams;317316 Wrote: > Well I not sure about insecure rippers handling those CDs well. I have > a CD that has this attempt at DRM in place and I did rip it with iTunes > and it ripped very quickly however when I played it back it was full of > pops and clicks. Ran it through EAC and it took almost a day to rip, > but was clean when it finished.
Different drives always used to make a difference. I bought loads of CDs from cdwow.com before I realised they had copy protection - the best thing to rip them with back then (that I found) was CDex, set to full paranoia, autorun off and an old NEC drive. Normal speed rips, and only 2-3 clicks in the last track. Now I'm another dBpoweramp convert, I've found that secure mode doesn't work so well with these - whereas Burst mode rips them fine with no audible artifacts. I used to take the "rips are rips" view and used iTunes. But dBpoweramp is easier, and the fact that you can verify it's 100% bit-perfect is a nice bonus. Before I was ripping to ALAC in iTunes, deleting the files from iTunes, tagging them with mp3tag (embedding artwork at the same time), adding them back to iTunes, using iTunes to convert them to AAC for my iPod (dual library). Argh! Now dBpoweramp lets me do all of that securely in one go with one mouse-click with artwork and whatever file/folder structure I like, and ALAC and mp3 at the same time and did I mention the artwork? Then all I do is drag the folder into iTunes. Done. Seriously, dBpoweramp is really, -really- good - and Spoon (the man behind it) is on his forums all the time, he listens and actions requests/problems etc, and best of all you can download it and try it for free for about 2 weeks! I'm not affiliated to Illustrate at all, btw, but it's amazing how much time I've saved using dBpoweramp. -- moley6knipe 2 x SqueezeBox 3 | 1 x SqueezeCenter 7 | 1 x Win XP Pro SP2 | 1 x Happy listener :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49492 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
