>It still won't have the metadata of dbpoweramp. eac with addons is >great but it still isn't the same. The rip will be every bit as good >but the meta data will be better with dbpoweramp. You can do the same >with a bit of work. I'd rather just pay for it and have it all done in >one fell swoop. But either way you get the best. > I slightly disagree with this.
EAC has been perfectly adequate for my needs, and I actually prefer it over dbPowerAmp. I have purchased dbPowerAmp, but only use it for converting music to another format. I've been using EAC for years, and pretty much for every disk I've ever ripped it has found metadata from freedb. Where it hasn't, I've manually entered the info and submitted to freedb. The quality of the metadata is pretty good and consistent. On the other hand, dbPowerAmp gets from several sources, and combines, etc, and I found this to be a little more hit and miss, dependent on the source it uses. I'm not sure where changes get submitted to. It also pulls back other metadata that I don't want, so I had to hack it out afterwards. From memory, there were things I wanted it to do, which it couldn't do. In both EAC and dbPowerAmp, I still like to open every album in Mp3Tag and check tags, eg, splitting multi-artist strings into multiple artist tags. I also apply replaygain using Foobar2000. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
