Subj : Re: Organizing collections
To   : Warpslide
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Feb 13 2024 15:02:29

  Re: Re: Organizing collections
  By: Warpslide to All on Mon Feb 12 2024 07:33 pm

 Wa> What do people use now-a-days to rip audio CDs?  I remember back in the
 Wa> day using Audiograbber and thenAudiocatalyst to rip to MP3.  And then of
 Wa> course used Winamp to play them.

I'm usually using Windows, and for ripping CDs, I usually use CDex (and have for many years):
https://cdex.mu/download

Sometimes I use dbPowerAmp (which can rip to both MP3 and FLAC in one step):
https://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper.htm

After using dbPowerAmp a bit, I went back to using CDEx most often.  I've found that the official FLAC software tends to produce somewhat smaller FLAC files, so I'll first rip to WAV, then compress to FLAC (for backup), then convert the FLACs to MP3 with FlacSquisher.

I wrote a Python script to convert an album of ripped WAV files to Flac and tag them with metadata as much as possible.

Official FLAC software:
https://xiph.org/flac/download.html

FlacSquisher:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/flacsquisher/

Nightfox
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