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I've Been Meaning to Ask...

Cheap/free mp3 ripping software: does it exist? Where can I get it?
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[identity profile] dsgood.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
For free software, see http://pricelesswarehome.org.

[identity profile] ase.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Which of those has worked well for you? Have any of them given you problems? There's a number of software packages listed; I'm reluctant to spend time downloading and trying them when I can spam my f-list and appeal to their experience.

[identity profile] dsgood.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
That's one kind of software I haven't tried; sorry. The software I have tried that's listed on pricelesswarehome has included some which was very good; but not all of it has been satisfactory.

[identity profile] jimtbari.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
iTunes? It'll rip to Apple's format by default, but you can tell it to rip to mp3.

[identity profile] ase.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I've tried beating iTunes with a stick, with limited success. Apple products are subtly counterintuitive to me in ways Evil WinDoze products aren't.

[identity profile] mearigh.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I've had great success both with CDEx (GPL-licensed freeware; http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/) back when I used winamp to play mp3s, and with iTunes, now that I have an iPod.

If you're not planning on downloading the mp3s to an iPod I would recommend CDEx over iTunes, but iTunes' integration with the iPod cannot be beat.

[identity profile] ase.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Since I don't have an iPod it'd be pretty tough to DL anything to one. (The new Shuffle is in my price range, sort of, but I'm a control freak: I want to know what I'm getting next. Someday the iPod market will saturate and I can buy someone's secondhand iPod cheap. Until then, yay mp3 CDs!)

I DLed CDex and it's working wonderfully. I'm having some problems with scratched CDs giving slightly ugly mp3s, but that's almost certainly primarily a CD quality problem. Also, I've been burning at 160 kbits, using the "high quality" setting; I'm going to experiment with cutting down to 128 and see if the scratch noise gets lost in the general quality drop.

[identity profile] kd5mdk.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
I reccommend iTunes, but there are lots of others as well.

[identity profile] ase.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You're the second person to recommend it; it certainly wouldn't hurt to fight with it a bit more and see if I can make it do what I'd like.
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