milesr3;230204 Wrote: > I ripped a bunch of CDs with EAC and subsequently ditched windows from > the machine, replacing it with Linux (Ubuntu). > > I now use Sound Juicer and it extracts and converts FLACs much quicker > than EAC used to. EAC used to take up to 40 minutes per CD, whereas > Sound Juicer takes no more than 2-3 minutes. It may be the case that > the rips aren't as accurate, but I'm not so sure. They certainly sound > great and I've re-ripped some CDs to compare and can hear no > difference. I find the disk and track info retrieval more reliable too, > where EAC would sometimes return two or more variations of the disk and > track info, Sound Juicer just seems to pick one accurate one. > > If I was going to rip 2000 CDs, things like this would make a big > difference.
You did what you needed to, but if I had been you, I surely wouldn't have done this. EAC can be as fast as it can be slow, depending upon the paranoïa level of quality you want and upon your drive. Ripping a disc in 3 minutes... it can be acceptable with perfects discs and a good drive, but there is a lot of chances that some of your discs have some glitch or hiss easy to heard. There is nothing more annoying than a loved disc with "clicks", even only one in the whole disc. I sometimes get albums from the internet (just for trying before buying of course) and they are sometimes badly ripped... going too fast and you expose your 2000 discs to these imperfection (which personally I can not tolerate). It's for you to decide, but you had to know ;) -- vrobin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vrobin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38688
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