Well I got my wallet out and paid for dbpoweramp. I can't believe how good it is and wish I'd started with it.
The quality of the rips from EAC is excellent, but the amount of messing around I was having to do to clean up the tags was ridiculous - I'd have been pushing up the daisies before I got to the end of the process. Yesterday I spent most of the day on MP3tag clearing up the carnage left by EAC. Everything I did on dbpoweramp needed no further tweaking - because it tags more reliably, because it gathers better quality info about each disc (and is more likely to find obscure stuff which I have plenty of) and because it organises rips into folders so I don't have to do it. I'm all the happier because the enormity of my CD collection is starting to dawn on me. I thought I had around 2000 when I started, but I'm almost up to that number now and have barely made a dent in it. Streamlining the process is even more important than I first thought. An extra unexpected benefit is speed. EAC was taking between 10 and 20 mins on my crappy PC, but dbpoweramp reliably does it in 2. I guess though that EAC will do better rips of difficult discs so maybe I'll use it for those. Cheers. -- pqpq ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pqpq's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92290 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
