Ozz;440959 Wrote: > At this point I am just trying to get my rips of the RB disk done. I > will fight the 24/96 battle once these are complete. I would hope we are > not far away from seeing more 24/96 made available for download. > > My disk are mint but my spouses look like they were used as a frisbee. > I am spending a lot of time trying to polish the flaws out of the disk > :-( > > I am using dbpoweramp gold version so it is an easy process except when > it gets to a bad spot on the disk.
Ozz, Are you using the Reference version of dBpoweramp? If so make sure you sign up for the beta and download the latest version (13.3) along with the betas of the codecs and DSPs that you use. The developer (Spoon) is quite responsive and there are some good reasons to use the latest beta for ripping as many CDs as you are. See the dBpoweramp forums for details. I had a similar experience as you with the condition of CDs, mine were generally good to excellent but my wife's - not so much. I found that it was best to clean discs with isopropyl alcohol (make sure you have one of the higher level alcohol content mixes as it cleans better and wicks/evaporates quicker), regardless of visual appearance, then try a rip. I was surprised how many discs ripped accurately when I thought they were going to take multiple repairing passes, based on visual appearance. I purchased an Aleratec disc repair device and it works ok but is very time consuming and frustrating on discs that need some serious "repairing". There are services that you can use to convert your CDs into files however the cost is generally per disc and would likely cost you over four figures to do the quantity of discs you have. They use expensive and effective disc repair gear that is out of reach for most consumers. You may be surprised with how many providers of hi-res downloadable music that are available. The main issue is the breadth of their offerings and pricing. I'm in KC and we don't get that FiOS love but my DSL gets me by with 6 Mb down and 768 Kb up. Enjoy the music, Kiwi PS check out Napster, they have a $5 per month streaming service that has ~7 million tracks. The quality is 128 Kbps WMA but most people have become dumbed down to music quality since the advent of portable digital audio players and the service works great for parties and teenagers. -- Kiwi SB3 Classic, SB Controller, SB Receiver, 2 x SB Boom, ? (waiting on announcement) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kiwi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65525 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
