Best Mp3 ripper???

January 25, 2020, 08:20 PM

Black92LX

Best Mp3 ripper???

Need to rip all the kids CDs that have been in the wife's Highlander since I can put them all on an SD card for the Suburban.
What is a good ripper that will pull good metadata and Album art so I don't have to do much fiddling.
I just want to rip to the SD card and be done.

Wish the system supported FLAC. I use EAC for that but it has been running a bit wonky here recently.

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January 25, 2020, 08:46 PM

xantom

Haven't ripped a CD in 10 years or more, but when I did I used iTunes back in the day.

January 25, 2020, 10:10 PM

bobtheelf

I use EAC with LAME mp3 encoder.

January 25, 2020, 10:22 PM

jhe888

Exact Audio Copy does all of what you want.

January 25, 2020, 10:44 PM

Paten

When I ripped my Dad's CDs to a flash drive for him, I just used Windows Media Player. Seemed to work fine and I didn't have to use any external program. Plus it seemed to find most of the albums and song information without much trouble. I would imagine your kid's CD's are probably more modern and easier to find though.

January 26, 2020, 06:08 AM

triggertreat

I use AnyBurn for FLAC. Quick and simple

January 26, 2020, 06:14 AM

Black92LX

iTunes you have to have an account for it to find album art. I so I have to go and find the album art and upload it manually.

EAC worked decently a couple years back when I was ripping to FLAC. I gave it a go and it was running kind of wonky.
I could not find an program update option in the program, maybe I try to uninstall and reinstall.

January 26, 2020, 06:58 AM

mark60

dBpoweamp is another that's very good.

January 26, 2020, 08:52 AM

petr

I am using Microsoft Zune. While it is no longer supported, the program is easy to use for ripping and transferring. The album art and track info is automatically downloaded as well. Though sometimes it doesn't show up. I don't know if it is the cd not supporting this information or what the deal is.

I just took my collection and added it to an SD card for our car. The Audi does not show any album art, but it is a 2012 so I don't think it supports that anyhow.

The computer has the Zune file seperate and all I needed to do was drag the whole file to the SD card to copy it. As I add CD's to my collection, I can go in and transfer just the files I want to add individually.

January 26, 2020, 09:04 AM

joel9507

quote:
Originally posted by mark60:
dBpoweamp is another that's very good.

I sprung for dBpoweramp as well. My mission was FLAC-ripping, which it did flawlessly, but I would imagine it does equally well making high-quality MP3s.

January 26, 2020, 09:31 AM

smschulz

quote:
Originally posted by joel9507:
quote:
Originally posted by mark60:
dBpoweamp is another that's very good.

I sprung for dBpoweramp as well. My mission was FLAC-ripping, which it did flawlessly, but I would imagine it does equally well making high-quality MP3s.

Longtime dbpoweramp user here too.
I've ripped over 800 cd's to FLAC for my media server and for mobile use.

January 26, 2020, 09:45 AM

Doc H.

quote:
Originally posted by smschulz:
quote:
Originally posted by joel9507:
quote:
Originally posted by mark60:
dBpoweamp is another that's very good.

I sprung for dBpoweramp as well. My mission was FLAC-ripping, which it did flawlessly, but I would imagine it does equally well making high-quality MP3s.

Longtime dbpoweramp user here too.
I've ripped over 800 cd's to FLAC for my media server and for mobile use.

Yep, the above. 750 CDs.

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