Best way to rip CDs

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I'm trying to rip CDs on my hard drive, and am unimpressed so far. I tried using Real Player, but it won't rip to 128kbs unless you pay for it, and it serves ads to you. Windows Media Player rips it fine, but does a terrible job of finding the correct track titles - i'm unwilling to type in 300+ CDs worth of information.

There's tons of programs to download from the internet, but I have no idea which are good. Right now I'm trying Audiograbber, which was running very slow until I changed some settings, and now maybe it's okay.

But if anyone has any recommendations for very good windows based rippers, I'd love to hear it. I wouldn't mind spending a few bucks if necessary.
 
I use Winamp on Windows. It gets track information how I want it and has a variety of options. Mine's bought so I'm pretty well free on rip speeds and so on, but without paying, you'd be left at a speed of 2x, I think. Formats you may be limited to m4a, a bitrate of unlimited if I remember correctly.
 
Exact Audio Copy for ripping. Lame for encoding (with RazorLame or other frontend).
 
El Greco said:
Exact Audio Copy for ripping. Lame for encoding (with RazorLame or other frontend).
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EAC/LAME without the razorlame for good quality (what is razorlame and why do you need it? I find the EAC interface just fine).

I use Musicmatch Jukebox for ripping things I don't really care about quality for but want to rip fast (like my other half's Madonna collection, ugh).
 
Another vote here for EAC. It is the only way to rip CDs really. It will also encode to mp3 if you have the codec exe.

Cheers,
Rat.
 
Okay, I have EAC, followed the instructions, and am ripping away. 12 minutes into it I've ripped and converted into mp3 3 tracks. Now, my system is slow and old, but WMP was ripping an entire CD in about 5-10 minutes. I recognize that LAME is a better ccompressor. But I don't think I'm willing to spend 1 hour per CD - it'd take months to rip everything I have.

Am I doing something wrong (besides using an old PC)?
 
I think I'll download CDex and rerip the same CD, which is supposed to be a faster but less accurate program, and then see what I think of the sound quality of the two programs.

Thanks for the help and advice.
 
If you want faster rips: EAC->EAC Options->Extraction tab->Change "Error recovery quality" to Low
 
Thanks, El Greco, I'll try that, but right now CDEx is going pretty fast (for my machine).

Thanks for the help, everyone! I think I can take it from here.
 
roger said:
I think I'll download CDex and rerip the same CD, which is supposed to be a faster but less accurate program, and then see what I think of the sound quality of the two programs.

Thanks for the help and advice.
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CDex is an excellent tool and I have never had a single issue with it.
 
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