I didn't know Winamp had a license that you paid for, even if you wanted to.
The two gold standards for ripping to Flac on the PC are EAC and dbpoweramp. Both can rip securely, meaning that they rip each piece of a track several times, making sure that they all match. They also both support AccurateRip. EAC is a great program with a really old user interface, particularly for all of the configuration options. If you find a guide on the Internet to setting it up, and give it some effort, it's great once you've set it up. The interface doesn't get in the way of using it to rip your CDs. The licensed version of dbpoweramp is better than EAC in several ways. It accesses more online database (several at a time, if you like) to pull down CD metadata like artist, track and album info. I've heard it's really good at finding album artwork. Also, it can speed up ripping of a large CD library by utilizing AccurateRip information. AccurateRip is only worthwhile if you value accurate rips of your CDs. Where dboweramp uses it to speed up ripping is that it first rips at a very fast non-secure read mode. If the AccurateRip results for all tracks match the database, then it calls the CD done and you've gotten a very fast, 100% bit accurate rip. If the AccurateRip results don't match then it launches a slower secure rip. With EAC, AccurateRip results are only added to the ripping log file. If you want to rip in burst mode then fall back to secure mode you need to do so manually. I've used EAC for 10 years or more, but dbpoweramp users swear by it and claim that it's well worth the cost. I don't know why you'd want dbpoweramp on all of your computers. The tasks it performs are one-time-only type things. Ripping a CD, finding metadata and artwork, converting between audio formats. I also thought the conversion type operations were a part of the free version. Another popular program used for conversion is foobar2000. Free. You can also install Flac and use FLAC Frontend to decode a folder full of Flac files. A Windows batch file is easy to create as well that will do the same thing. Is there any particular reason you need to convert Flac to WAV? If it's to burn CD, look into using 'burrrn' (http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4), which can work directly from Flac files. Also free. If you want to stream WAV instead of Flac to a Squeezebox, that's easily done in the settings to have Squeezebox Server decode the Flac and stream PCM instead. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82688 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
