richcornucopia Posted May 14, 2006 CID Share Posted May 14, 2006 I'm going to begin the process of copying all of my cd's to my hardrive so I can put them on my mp3 player. Question is what is the best program for doing this? I know I could use wmp, but is there anything better out there that will give me quality. (I don't mind paying for it if it is going to give me much better quality than something free) As far as formats go I still haven't decided, my mp3 player supports a lot, mp3, ogg, flac, wma, and wav. Right now I'm leaning toward flac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted May 14, 2006 CID Share Posted May 14, 2006 richcornucopia personally i use windows media player, and i rip all my music using the wma lossless codac, it give me large files, but the sound just like they are on the CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asubaseball727 Posted May 14, 2006 CID Share Posted May 14, 2006 I'd go with Itunes. It has everything, plus if you have an iPod then you don't have to convert them from WMV to Mp3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted May 14, 2006 Author CID Share Posted May 14, 2006 Did a little research and tried some programs and right now im using cdex, and ripping with flac. Each file is like 20-30megs but the quality is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted May 14, 2006 CID Share Posted May 14, 2006 Yea, that's about lossless quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsD Posted May 14, 2006 CID Share Posted May 14, 2006 I use two programs which remove the digital rights that wma keeps, whilst ensuring very good quality IMO. The first converts to WMA or Audio Zip and is called CDex Version 1.51 available for free from link The second converts from WMA to mp3 format it is called WinLAME from the help file: winLAME is an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface. winLAME supports many input audio formats, and uses the LAME mp3 encoding library for encoding and the MAD decoding library for decoding. winLAME is distributed and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). also free from this link Although this is a two step process I find the winLAME conversion the best quality, and the added clicks are worth it in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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