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Geoffrey Inniss

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Feb 12, 2002, 11:10:57 PM2/12/02

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What is the easiest way to rip tracks from a cd to a hard drive under winXP
with a plextor 2410TA ?

The Weissman

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Feb 12, 2002, 11:38:23 PM2/12/02

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The easiest way to rip tracks from a CD is to use "the alternate cdfs.vxd",
which makes CD audio (.cda) tracks show up as WAV files, which you can drag
and drop into Windows Explorer. But...I don't run WinXP (yet) so I'm not
sure if the alternate cdfs.vxd is compatible with it.

I like Feurio (www.feurio.com) for ripping and burning new audio CDs. Highly
recommended!

Steve

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Feb 12, 2002, 11:52:54 PM2/12/02

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There's no easy answer. I use many programs for DAE. It also depends if you want just WAV files to burn to CD, or if you want to rip MP3 files. If you want to rip WAV to make your own audio CD, then Feurio is the best all in one solution for me.

I've been using it for about 2 years now, and it has never burned a coaster or crashed on Win98SE, WinME and WinXP. Feurio does fast DAE and results are always excellent. With the added luxury of a great Audio burning program: www.feurio.com/english/index.shtml There's a full featured, unrestricted demo. It works great with both my Plex 12/10/32 and Plex 24/10/40. There's really so much you can do with it, I have lots of fun making my own compilation discs. You can also use it to encode/decode MP3. I've never encoded with it, but I decode a lot when burning Audio CD. I've made at least 300 audio CD's using Feurio, never a coaster.

For free MP3 ripping, try CDex : http://www.cdex.n3.net/ - it uses CDDB/FreeDB and is fairly simple, though somewhat slower. It can also rip to WAV and covert WAV to MP3 and vice-versa.

AudioGrabber is good as well, but it costs 20.00. It was worth it, but is similar to CDex in features/speed.

Also Free, but much more advanced, and considered the best, EAC : http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac6.html. It's the best for extremely accurate, although very slow DAE, especially on problem CD's. There are lots of features as well, and a neat burner program that lets you burn/create cue files and their associated audio file.

All of the above have the added luxury of being able to use the downloaded version of the FreeDB database to have the CD info on 485,000+ CD's right on your hard drive.

I've always loved PlextorManager2000 for straight WAV ripping as it was the absolute fastest with no errors and had CDDB support, but Plextor warns not to use it under XP. The European version, PlexTools IS supported underXP. Per my previous correspondence with Plextor, they are not going to update PlextorManager software to work with XP ("It's too complicated" was the phrase they used), and they will not make PlexTools available to anyone outside of Europe. I found it anyway, and installed it - but really was not impressed, especially since there's no FreeDB/CDDB support. It is about as fast as Plextor manager at DAE, and will even kill the digital silence at the start/end of a track, but manual naming in this day and age is not worth it, and it will overwrite files without asking.

There are many other programs, including burning suites that can do DAE and a whole lot more.

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Mike Richter

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Feb 13, 2002, 2:05:54 AM2/13/02

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The Weissman wrote:
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> The easiest way to rip tracks from a CD is to use "the alternate cdfs.vxd",
> which makes CD audio (.cda) tracks show up as WAV files, which you can drag
> and drop into Windows Explorer. But...I don't run WinXP (yet) so I'm not
> sure if the alternate cdfs.vxd is compatible with it.

XP is an NT system and does not support VXDs or the file faking that
CDFS.VXD implements.

Mike
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