maggior;336827 Wrote: > This is a good discussion - I appreciate all of the input. > > If I was just starting out ripping my entire CD collection, I would be > all over this. But I'm at the point now where I'm basically ripping > discs as I buy them. I occasionally go back to my collection to rip > some discs that I've missed and want to listen to. > > The other issue is that my XP machine that I also use to rip *only* has > 1GB of RAM in it. It won't be suitable, or would barely be - and I'm > not going to upgrade it to 2GB. It's been quite suitable for some > heavy duty tasks like editing audio files, video files, and authoring > DVDs. I also like the flexibility of sometimes ripping with my laptop > while my wife and I watch TV and other times sitting in front of the PC > in the basement and rip discs. > > Also factor in that what I do now (though some may think it > inefficient) works for me and has worked through ripping/encoding 1000+ > discs over the past 2 years. If dbpa did something for me that I > couldn't do now, that would be a different story. > > I would recommend dbpa to anybody, but with the caveat that its > performance comes at a price of memory usage. You really need a > current machine (at least dual core) with at least 2GB of RAM for it to > work properly under all conditions.
Hey you do what you have to do. However dbpoweramp may not do anything for you can not do now, it just does it in much less time and hassle. Note that many of the DSP tools you can add to dbpoweramp that other tools can not do so easily. One that I like allows you to not save tracks of silence that you see on CDs with "hidden tracks", and you can even have it remove large blocks of silence from within a track during the rip. Yes those last 2 items remove the pure lossless nature of the album, however I have never found myself wanting to listen to 5 minutes of silence before the hidden track plays. One thing I am not sure if any other ripper/encoder can do is decode HDCD. The biggest thing though is its simplicity and speed. Also it will run fine on a single core machine with 1GB of RAM, just maybe not those freak CDs with a single 70+ minute track. I use dbpoweramp within a VMWARE XP install on my MAC which I only allocate 1 CPU and 512MB of RAM, sure it is slower than my home machine but still very usable. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51938 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
