At last: MP3 Lossless!!!

[sajman99]

FWIW BonkEnc (new to me) is a free audio converter and CD ripper which is currently well-regarded. Could be worth a look.

[akx]

Try 7zip or rar. The main difference of the lossless compressors is sometimes a small function before compression similar to this one:
for (t_audiosize x=0; x<wavlen-1; x++) { wav

• = wav[x+1]-wav
• ; if (wav
• <0) wav
• =0-wav
• ; }

... That´s all

-Crush (January 12, 2010, 11:54 AM)

Um... really?



Also, Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is lovely indeed, it interfaces neatly with both LAME for MP3 encoding and FLAC for lossless.

[f0dder]

Yep, EAC is the best ripper-- especially if you have a scratched CD. Other free tools like CDex and Audiograbber reportedly get the job done as well.

-sajman99 (January 13, 2010, 02:01 PM)

...as long as the CDs aren't scratched or copy-protected, in which case I don't think you should use anything besides EAC or dBpoweramp.

AudioGrabber freeware? Last time I used it, it was commercial... and used the sucky XING engine. Or am I thinking about something else with a similar name?

[sajman99]

f0dder:
Looks like AudioGrabber has been free for a while (Feb '04), but I didn't realize it is now abandonware. AG's website is gone, but it can still be found at CNET and other download sites.

Personally, I never had any reason to use anything other than EAC with its superior secure ripping mode. I'll take a look at dBpoweramp as well.

[f0dder]

Personally, I never had any reason to use anything other than EAC with its superior secure ripping mode. I'll take a look at dBpoweramp as well.

-sajman99 (January 13, 2010, 06:24 PM)

EAC's ripping is secure, but I dunno if I'd call it superior - it works by re-ripping each sector multiple times, which strains your drive and can be slow. dBpoweramp utilizes C2 error pointer information, which means it only has to re-rip sectors the drive tells it were ripped problematically - and it does this in a second pass, so the first pass can go full speed (re-ripping a sector means searching back, which is a pretty slow operation). Unfortunately, not all drives support C2, and some that do don't support it reliably :/