Best flac ripper

setter · 12 Feb 2011 at 05:46

Thought id stick this in here, ive ripped a few cd's from my collection using win amp, sonds okish, bit crackily now and again even with brand new discs. i listen to music on the pc via a xonar dx and goldring ns1000's. Not fussed about speaker use as my current 2.1 set up is pretty poor. (creative i-trigue 3330)

Uriel · 12 Feb 2011 at 07:52

Exact Audio Converter (EAC)

Global_Inferno · 12 Feb 2011 at 09:49

^^ +1

Auraomega · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:32

EAC. Takes a little effort to get working but I've never had an issue with it, unlike a lot of other software

jbloggs · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:38

Apart from EAC, there is also Ripstation Micro (freeware) and dBpoweramp which gives you a free trail period off 30 days and then purchase...

marc2003 · 12 Feb 2011 at 11:51

anything that supports accuraterip.

eac: but there's no need to run it in secure mode taking absolutely ****ing ages and caning your drive when you can use burst mode and verify your rips against others submitted online. i'm always :confused:

when people talk about the effort it takes to set EAC up. follow the first run wizard (choosing the "speed is more important" option) and away you go. make sure you check the logs after each rip. only if you get partial matches against the AR database should you resort to secure mode.

notable others:

foobar2000
dbpoweramp
cuetools

Auraomega · 12 Feb 2011 at 13:12

There's a Wizard mode? Never seen it before and by effort I simply mean you have to find the DLLs (or is it exes for EAC?) and then set up your arguments (more of an issue with MP3s).

Alexrose1uk · 12 Feb 2011 at 16:13

I've always tended to use Freerip MP3. Never had any real issues with it, and it'll do FLAC as well as MP3.

Mr Krugga · 12 Feb 2011 at 17:00

foobar2000+FLAC Frontend

Shelster · 12 Feb 2011 at 18:10

Have used Format Factory and also Media Monkey. Both have been fine (although have just ben thourhg and converted all my music to 256k MP3's so i can play em on my home system from an external HD...several hours of my life i will never gat back, and still have naming to sort out on some albums too....)

ChrisD. · 12 Feb 2011 at 19:08

I use dbpoweramp, it's really good.

Auraomega · 13 Feb 2011 at 02:52

Shelster said:
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That's one of the many reasons I always use FLAC, when I want to convert my library to another format I just use Foobar and don't lose any quality, and I don't have to sit re-ripping all my albums. Took me about a month to re-rip my library to FLAC though... not fun...

marc2003 · 13 Feb 2011 at 10:13

Auraomega said:
There's a Wizard mode? Never seen it before and by effort I simply mean you have to find the DLLs (or is it exes for EAC?) and then set up your arguments (more of an issue with MP3s).

by default it only runs on the first use to setup a few basics. flac comes bundled with EAC so if you choose that, it sets it up for you.

you can run the "configuration wizard" again from the main "eac" menu.

PCRHitman · 14 Feb 2011 at 12:42

MediaMonkey is my current favourate music "everything". the free version rips to many formats including flac. easy to use as well, very good library app too.