What do you use to rip CD's?

[m42technic]

iTunes baby. Rip, Mix, Burn and download it to my iPod. Simple.

[nando]

EAC + lame

anything else is a waste of time

[DSchultz325e]

for some reason the itunes loader decided to royally fuck up my booting process and use 97% of my cpu so i got rid of it. i just use nero now.

[robert325is]

in my past experience, CD's don't rip too good... so i prefer to crack them or cut 'em up with scissors or knifes... just watch out for the shards...

[bimmerphile]

in my past experience, CD's don't rip too good... so i prefer to crack them or cut 'em up with scissors or knifes... just watch out for the shards...

I stick em 1" into the ground and let my 9-iron do the work.

[DSchultz325e]

stick one in the microwave for seven seconds. it's purdy neat.

[Jand3rson]

stick one in the microwave for seven seconds. it's purdy neat.

Only took 2 when I did it.

[e30fiend]

EAC + lame

anything else is a waste of time

w0rd. Seriously. Fuck that musicmatch winamp shit, they are mediocre players at best. There's a reason most mp3 groups use EAC+lame; it produces high quality mp3s. Unless all you do with your mp3s is listen to them on computer speakers, but on a good system you can hear the difference.

[PanamaE30]

Old School..

Audiograbber.. Fast.. Good... :)

[KenC]

EAC + lame

anything else is a waste of time

w0rd. Seriously. Fuck that musicmatch winamp shit, they are mediocre players at best. There's a reason most mp3 groups use EAC+lame; it produces high quality mp3s. Unless all you do with your mp3s is listen to them on computer speakers, but on a good system you can hear the difference.

Where can you get EAC + lame? I've got a Denon AVR-3000 paired with some Phase Technology PC-60s and a PC-50 and I'm eager to discern the difference between different ripping utilities.

[nando]

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

oddly enough, it's german :)

haven't downloaded it in a while, but the last version I had camewith a lame plugin. otherwise, you can get that from www.doom9.org, you'll also find plenty of info for setting it up. I usually do 192vbr joint-stereo if I'm trying to save space, or straight 320 for quality. 192vbr sounds great though and takes the same space as 128. the .exe version of lame is faster than the .dll version, EAC will work with either.

[peteM3power]

Nero - not sure exactly which type.

Pete

[mspiegle]

Exact Audio Copy as nando stated above. You can't get much better than it. It rips shit that can't normally be ripped.... assuming you have a good CD reader.

[brodee]

Audiograbber.. Fast.. Good... :)

I'm with him.. Audiograbber with lame added, quick and done and not all the damn overhead iTunes and all the others put on my machine