Check out www.r3mix.net

They suggest using Exact Audio Copy....

and they suggest a bunch of good encoders.

Also, beware the parts of that website that were written by a third party, not the guy in charge of the technical information. The Myths section comes to mind. These sections really are pretty sadly misinformed...

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Originally posted by Gluegun Check out www.r3mix.net They suggest using Exact Audio Copy.... and they suggest a bunch of good encoders. Also, beware the parts of that website that were written by a third party, not the guy in charge of the technical information. The Myths ...

This site says that "Lame Encoder" is the best one around. A free encoder is the best??? Don't know ?!!!!

And "Exact Audio Copy" never heared of it. check it later.

Greetz

Theres nothing better than Musicmatch jukebox plus

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Originally posted by Trancer85 Theres nothing better than Musicmatch jukebox plus

*Snort*..... *coughs*

*Almost dies in laughter*

Yes, the Exact Audio Copy and LAME combination --both of which are free-- is the highest quality you can get...

Hey Gluegun! The headphone threads weren't enough to keep you busy eh?

EAC (Exact Audio Copy) for ripping the CD.

LAME for encoding to mp3.

RazorLame for the frontend to the LAME encoder (a windows program that uses the LAME encoder, so you don't have to put in the command lines yourself).


All of the release groups are using this combination, so you know it is the best. Plus you have mine and Gluegun's recommendations (both of us visit multimedia and sound related forums as well).

And, of course, the very latest version of Coolplayer to play it!

Here's a review with a link:

http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-...-3A024B24-prod2

And, Ideally, a nice professional or semi-professional sound card..

stuff by terratec, turtle beach (if you want gaming capability in your professional sound card, get the turtle beach santa cruz), m-audio, etc. etc. are good....

hmm..

what's wrong with winamp? it sounds purty damn good to me.

also EAC gave me problems, with windows XP i can't seem to rip CDs anymore.. someone said i might have to update my aspi drivers.. doh!

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Originally posted by JohnSmith hmm.. what's wrong with winamp? it sounds purty damn good to me. also EAC gave me problems, with windows XP i can't seem to rip CDs anymore.. someone said i might have to update my aspi drivers.. doh!

THIS is what's wrong with Winamp! Read this review:

http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-...-3A024B24-prod2

CoolPlayer sucks.

it's Smaller & Faster than winamp and same quality but it's very uncomfortable,optionless & buggy.
defualt skin is pain in the... & other skin option is very hard to work. playlist is not handy and so on...

I haven't test eXact Copy & Lame yet, maybe tommorow and i will post the results.

Cool, we have new Icons on this forum.

Greetz

I think i am sticking with winamp.

maybe i will go get that MAD plugin they are talking about. although, i doubt i will be able to tell much difference, my ears are pretty blown from too many rock concerts and loud headphones.

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Originally posted by DJ Newday CoolPlayer sucks. it's Smaller & Faster than winamp and same quality but it's very uncomfortable,optionless & buggy. defualt skin is pain in the... & other skin option is very hard to work. playlist is not handy and so on... I haven't test eXact Copy & Lame yet, maybe tommorow and i will post the results. Cool, we have new Icons on this forum. Greetz

We *are* talking about the same coolplayer, right? The one that was released, like, 15 days ago? This thing is stable as a ROCK, had all the features *I* would ever use, has plenty of skin options... what bugs were you having, exactly??

And the sound quality is a LOT better than winamp... and, as always, the better your system is (including mp3 quality, sound card quality, speaker quality, and how well the actual .wav's were recorded), the more you will be able to tell that it is better...

Here is the only really major problem i have heard of with bugs. Seeing as how this is open source (and more people have begun to pay attention to this thing), it should get fixed quite soon. Hell, you could fix it if you want.

Folks with the Sound Blaster Live (and the Live only) appear to have a problem where the volume control moves the CD slider on their mixer instead of the master volume. Given that it's only Live! people having the problem, I'd say it was a bug in the live drivers. None of the other consumer cards, like the Santa Cruz, Audigy, Acoustic Edge and Game Theater XP have this problem.

Also, here are a bunch of skins!

http://www.deviantart.com/thumbnails.php?section=coolplayer

Last edited by Gluegun on May-13-2002 at 19:58