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Re: [OT] Audio Ripping




Ripping is so quick there's not much point.  I did mine in the background
while using the PC for other things.  Every few minutes the CD drawer would
pop out, I'd stick another disk in and start the rip.


----- Original Message -----
From: "JT @ Home" <Jonathan@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:09 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Audio Ripping


>
> Anyone have any thoughts on building a pc purely to encode from cd to
> mp3?
>
> I thought of putting loads of old scsi cdroms into a large case, use a
> p3-800 board and chip, 512mb of ram and some decent ripping software.
>
> Would that be feasible? Or does it make more sense just to encode each
> cd one at a time?
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Ellis [mailto:forum_mail@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 February 2005 16:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Audio Ripping
>
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> I ripped to Apple Lossless for main server use, then ripped down to
> mp3/aac
> for my IPOD again using ITunes.  This seemed to work fine its also
> quick.
> Means I can keep in lossless for home use and for certain artists on
the
> IPOD.  Winamp has a plug-in for Apple Lossless :-) so works great with
> Xlobby.
>
> Kevin
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> On 15/2/05 3:59 pm, "Simon Brazier" <zen17047@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>> Having just lost nearly 90Gb of music files in a hard disk failure
> (the day
>> after purchasing some backup software which had yet to be
installed),
> and data
>> recovery programs failing to recover anything, I've got to start
> encoding all
>> of my CDs to hard disk again.
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>> I was thinking of doing them all to WAV this time for maximum
quality.
> Anyone
>> got any recommendations for a good CD to WAV ripper ? I've had a
look
> through
>> the archive and it's about 6 months since this was last mentioned
so
> there
>> might be newer solutions around.
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>> TIA
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