Re: [ARSCLIST] Soundcard/iTunes phollies

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter:

I think we have many fellow fans of EAC here, but did you use it to extract WAV or to extract and 
then reduce to MP3 using attached LAME encoding? For WAV extraction, I don't think it's easy to beat 
EAC (and you really can't beat the price). I've long thought about doing what you did -- extracting 
all my CD audio into hard drives -- but the places I listen to music in my house (studio, media room 
next to studio, workshop next to media room and living room upstairs) are all interconnected with 
balanced audio lines and all have reasonably good CD players. So I don't really have a need to go 
through the effort. Now that I have a new generation iPod, I might stop ripping into my pod library 
as MP3 (192CBR) and switch to Apple Lossless Format or WAV. I haven't decided that yet.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Rothstein" <prothstein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Soundcard/iTunes phollies


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Rothstein [mailto:pdrothstein@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:16 PM
> To: 'Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: [ARSCLIST] Soundcard/iTunes phollies
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just a usual lurker, and enjoy the varied discussions on this list, but
> thought that I might chime in about ripping/encoding.  I've been using EAC
> (Exact Audio Copy) for several years since I decided to convert my CD
> collection into a PC-based audio server (I had been using many Sony changers
> and a Slink-e for PC control of the changers).  I've ripped a few thousand
> CDs using EAC, and it is a great stand-alone extraction program that works
> with numerous encoders and is quite versatile.  It also gets around having
> to use a potentially buggy/intrusive media library app.  Many of you
> probably have already used it/heard of it, but for those who haven't, here's
> the Hydrogen Audio link for it:
>
> http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Exact_Audio_Copy
>
> I've had it running concurrently on 3 PCs (some as "basic" as a PII) with
> two optical drives each all ripping and writing to the server with nary a
> hiccup.  It also has worked pretty well with some of my mid '80s CDs with
> Swiss cheese disease (unless the metallic layer is too far gone, but there
> have been only one or two that bad).
>
> Good luck!
>
> Peter Rothstein
> Huntingdon, PA