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Best free CD to MP3 ripper?
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Or do iPods come with the appropriate software to run on a laptop?
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I use iTunes with my iPod and I'm sure that does it but Windows Media
Player definitely does.
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I was wondering if anyone knew which produced the best quality rips ...
I'm just orf out to buy a 60 gig iPod, assuming they have one in black
locally.
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Seconded.
Although, really, you're making a rod for your own back if you're not
using iTunes with an iPod - using more than one application to rip
tunes from a CD to a portable device is just plain ridiculous.
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iTunes will rip to MP3 quite happily ...
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But I've been told by several folk who'd know better than I that
AudioGrabber and WinAmp do a better job of it.
But of course I don't know, so wibbleflipdibbledoo.
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I've also just noticed that there are several of my CDs that iTunes
doesn't have track info for, whereas AudioGrabber seems to have access
to them all; can I make iTunes point at a different name service?
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The iTunes UI is a bit funny from a Windows POV, being a workalike
clone of a Mac OSX app - but then CDEX and all the other weird little
utilities mentioned elsewhere in this thread aren't a paragon of
usability or elegance either.
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What he said.
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Ooh! A product with 2 geek votes! And it's GPL too.
Cheers :)
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I'm trying to decide if you're being sarcastic, or if I should faint.....
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Why should you faint? I've taken your advice before.
Like that lockup, for example.
... which was broken into a few weeks ago, and lots of stuff was stolen
;) [1]
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Ahhh *that* kind of advice ;)
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[1] although to be fair, very little of it was worth anything
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I'm using the modified version of Audiograbber that allows LameENC to be
set to "--alt-preset extreme" as it produces about the best quality
mp3's out of all the programs I've tried.
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Audiograbber isn't free though is it? Or am I thinking of something
else?
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It has been free for a while now and is my ripper of choice.
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