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Backing up CDs..
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| Chittle |
What is the best program for creating high quality back-ups of your CDs?
Exact Audio Copy and Lame are widely regarded as the best for ripping decent, low quality (mp3/wma) copies of your music, but for archiving purposes what would be the best high quality/lossless ripper? |
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| Jono404 |
| FLAC for lossless or Ogg Vorbis at 256 or over for lossy, assuming the discs are proper CDDA and not burnt mp3s in the first place. |
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| THE_Chris |
| Audiograbber will rip it as .wavs. You can then reburn that or copy them to an external HDD or something like that. |
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| leebates1986 |
| eac - back up to .flac with .cue and .log, perfect copy everytime, aslong as you have orig cd and didnt originally burn .mp3's ;) |
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| Chittle |
Thanks for the replies lads.
I think I'll stick with EAC (seeing as I'm familiar with it) and rip them as .wavs (just because they're a more widely used format and file space isn't really an issue). |
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| Simon |
| FreeRIP is alright with FLAC support. |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| As already mentioned, EAC is definitely the HQ ripper of choice. Just be sure to turn off 'burst mode.' |
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| basilisk |
| I use EAC and backup to WAVs... hard drives are so cheap that you can always run out and grab another one if space is an issue. |
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