Good CD ripper proggie??

[E F]

Oops, you're right I did miss the PS.

In that case, thank you for the info regarding the software you
mentioned.  ;-)

Cheers.

   --Eric



On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:15:46 -0500, Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:41 -0500, E F wrote:
>> Frankly I use it in 'out of the box' mode, but it does allow you to set
>> a
>> drive off set and select some ripping modes including using the
>> paranoia.library.
>>
>> D/L it and take it a look, it's not big and the price is right.
>>
>> Good Luck.
> [...]
>> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:25:10 -0500, Paul Mather
>> <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
>> wrote:
> [...]
>> > PS: Personally, I normally use cdparanoia because I don't run Windows.
>
> I think you might have overlooked the above PS. :-)  I noticed this is
> stated on the CDex Web page: Operating System: All 32-bit MS Windows
> (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
>
> So, I don't think it'd be much practical use for *me* to try it out.  (I
> use cdparanoia for DAE, or something like abcde if I want to do batch
> conversion/tagging.) :-)
>
> I do remember using CDex many many years ago, but switched to EAC when
> using Windows.  By what you say, they have improved the feature set and
> DAE since then.
>
> Looking at the feature requests on the CDex site, it doesn't appear to
> support converting to lossless formats like SHN or FLAC (though you can
> always go CD > WAV, WAV > SHN/FLAC using different software, I suppose).
> DBpowerAMP has plugins for those, making direct conversion very easy
> indeed.  (It also has many plugins for other audio formats, like MP3,
> OGG, etc.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
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