I prefer EAC for ripping - once set up, it's easy to insert and rip. I then use Mp3Tag to add any additional tag info (eg. ALBUMARTIST, BAND, COMPILATION, COMMENT tags).
I use dbPowerAmp primarily for converting from one format to the other. I didn't like the ripping interface. Naff UI. I particularly don't like that it insists on storing disc tags (even disc 1/1 for single disk albums), and that the only way to stop those tags was to add a post-rip instruction to remove the tag. It also doesn't seem to asynchronously encode to FLAC - so I have to wait until the whole disk is ripped and encoded as FLAC, before ejecting to insert the next disc. I think I had other issues with it, before deciding that I was more than happy with EAC still for doing the actual rips. I tried Media Monkey as an alternative to iTunes - i.e. was going to use it just for syncing any music content to an iPod Nano (as it can transcode FLAC). I'd never use it for ripping or tagging, as other programs are superior. Unfortunately, I didn't like Media Monkey much - it seemed just as naff as iTunes. I may revisit it sometime. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
