Accurip Alternative

[Laura N Gerard]

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Up to now I have ripped about 1700 discs to a Melco N1A with perhaps a dozen that would not and a dozen where there have been clicks and pops. I have managed to solve this using the PC and Windows Media Player.

In the recent Poundland/charity shop marathon I now have half a dozen that I cannot use.

I downloaded Exact Audio Copy and have come unstuck with the calibration. The majority of my CDs are in storage, even so, out of the list of reference discs I have about fifteen. Luckily those are in the house. BUT, every one is rejected as it is not the same pressing as the reference.

Apart from starting a search to find exact discs, any suggestions or alternatives please?

dBpoweramp would be my recommendation for ripping any discs, it will also check with AccurateRip to ensure a perfect copy. Does the Melco check with AccurateRip?

The difficult discs you have may have copy protection on them. dBpoweramp should be able to deal with them.

What I do is very simple: rip with dBP on its normal setting, then in the (quire rare) event of a problem, I re-rip putting it on most intense setting, but leaving till last if I have others to do, then simply leaving it running while I do something else so the time is not an issue, and accepting whatever that has achieved. More often than not that has confirmed successful rip (including AR confirmation where available), with only a handful of tracks across my entire collection with errors, and nothing stopping enjoyment of play.

In EAC you can skip the Accurate Rip process with database verification, simply type the disk data yourself if it is not in the database, and, once ripped, it will automatically add it to the database.

The checking tracks and treating damage process is independent of the Accurate Rip, and will do so in any case as long as you have scheduled it; now, it can take hours and days to escape the damage, and some may be unrecoverable.

Personally, in my collection of more than 2000 I have only had problems with three, which I do not know if I could have recovered or not, but I preferred to lose some tracks than to have the computer, and the floppy disk, running for days.

[Incidentally if the disk is perfect, this ripping mode will still give a perfect rip of the disk and the rip will then pass the AccuRip test; and (unless the player is affect by differences in the metadata) the rip will sound the exactly same no matter which ripper was used to generate the file.]

Yes, Gus is right. dbpoweramp is superb ( available in both Windows and mac versions). I particularly love the way it deals with metadata giving access ti a number of pre-existing solutions on other databases and allowing the user to edit as they wish. Further when bought as a bundle with PerfectTunes you also get cover art and can search for alternatives if you wish e.g when the cover art is of a 2023 version when you are ripping one from 1998.

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