What is the best CD ripper and audio MP3 encoder in 64-bit Windows 7 these days?

[Ant]

Is it still Exact Audio Copy and LAME encoder?

Thank you in advance. :)
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Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> news:59mdndNtUpxHDqnEnZ2dnUU7-
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> Is it still Exact Audio Copy and LAME encoder?
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

IMO, Yes.


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In message <59mdndNtUpxHDqnE...@earthlink.com>, Ant

<a...@zimage.comANT> writes:
>Is it still Exact Audio Copy and LAME encoder?
>
>Thank you in advance. :)

You'd need to qualify "best". EAC's main claim to fame (IIRR) is that it
has many goes at reading a damaged track; otherwise, being basically
digital signals, they all do the same so it's just a matter of what
convenience features have been added.

As for converting to MP3 after you've ripped, I _think_ LAME is the
_only_ freeware one, and all other (free anyway) ones are based on it
(though admit that fact to varying degrees). I could be wrong though.
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Win Amp pro if you have it already or can get it:)


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[Fokke Nauta]

On 05/06/2017 01:12, Ant wrote:
> Is it still Exact Audio Copy and LAME encoder?
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

Yep!

Fokke

[s|b]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:12:26 -0700, Ant wrote:

> Is it still Exact Audio Copy and LAME encoder?

I would think so, yes.

Keep in mind that all versions after 0.95b3 are not capable of copying
audio CDs with copy protection.

<http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/whats-new/whats-new/>

<quote>

February 21, 2006

The german magazin c’t published an article whether EAC is or is not
violating a german law against circumvention of copy protections on
audio CDs. Some of the experts they asked had the opinion that the
function of retrieving the native TOC is working at the limit of
legality, at best. Due to that article and to eliminate any possibility
of legal problems, I decided to remove that function (although I am
pretty sure that it is absolutely legal). I always try to make sure to
be fully compliant with german law, even if I would interpret the law
absolutely differently.

Anyway, there are at least some few bug-fixes in this update, e.g.
creating an image having the artist and CD title as filename will now
show the file dialog properly when special characters are used.

For the next version it is still planned to add test & copy of CD images
and for the version after that I will try to implement Unicode support
for freedb queries and main window display and edit.

I am sorry about all this, but please understand my point of view.

</quote>

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[Ant]

On 6/5/2017 4:37 AM, s|b wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:12:26 -0700, Ant wrote:
>
>> Is it still Exact Audio Copy and LAME encoder?
>
> I would think so, yes.
>
> Keep in mind that all versions after 0.95b3 are not capable of copying
> audio CDs with copy protection.
>
> <http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/whats-new/whats-new/>

Darn. Maybe I need to install that final version? Is it even safe to use
it in 64-bit W7? :/
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[B00ze]

On 2017-06-05 16:59, Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> On 6/5/2017 4:37 AM, s|b wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:12:26 -0700, Ant wrote:
>>
>>> Is it still Exact Audio Copy and LAME encoder?
>>
>> I would think so, yes.
>>
>> Keep in mind that all versions after 0.95b3 are not capable of copying
>> audio CDs with copy protection.
>>
>> <http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/whats-new/whats-new/>
>>
>
> Darn. Maybe I need to install that final version? Is it even safe to use
> it in 64-bit W7? :/

Sometimes EAC takes hours to rip a CD. CueRipper can do the same in
minutes, where both EAC and CueRipper end-up with the same checksum. The
interface is horrible however. See http://cue.tools/wiki/CUERipper.

Regards,

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[s|b]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 23:27:55 -0400, B00ze wrote:

8< very selective snip >8

> Sometimes EAC takes hours to rip a CD.

This can be the case when the audio CD contains copy protection. In that
case you can choose to retrieve native TOC and change Drive options to
Burst mode. Ripping won't take hours, but minutes.

I only choose Burst mode in case of copy protection. By default I rip in
Secure mode which doesn't take me hours btw. Only when I'm trying to rip
a heavily scratched CD.

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[B00ze]

I have not been using EAC in a long time. I shall again eventually, but
not just yet. When I /was/ using it, it was at V1.0 Beta 3 and it
sometimes took a LONG time to read some tracks, even tho the CD was in
perfect condition (coulda been my CDRom drive). CueRipper was managing
to rip those disks very very quickly and the checksum would match on
ACCURip. I have never tried BURST mode, I shall read-up on this when I
install EAC on this new computer of mine, thanks (CueRipper is fast, but
with EAC I can send the rip to a script of mine which produces a FLAC
and also sends the data to iTunes to encode in AAC, all automatically,
with all Tags; can't do this with CueRipper).

Best Regards,

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