I am sure we have someone who can help I have a load of CD's I need to rip - legitimate reason but its not something I do too often At the moment I am using iTunes and it is ripping in the same time it takes to listen to a CD so about 1 hour per CD. Does anyone know of a quicker way or am I stuck with spending several days feeding in a CD every hour?
Hi, What you have described isn't what I experience when I rip CDs. Have you checked the bit rate and compression (or lack of it)? If you use variable bit rate and rip a CD to MP3 format then a whole CD should take about 5 minutes max. If you rip lossless to get better sound quality then things may take longer.
There's lots of software that will rip CDs for you. Tons of it free on the web. I have no experience with itunes, but even if you don't want to download anything, windows media player will do it for you. A CD will take a couple of minutes at most.
Use CDex Simple to use and takes a few minutes to do a CD. iTunes is a complete dog I, would never let it near my computer, it would try to take it over.
Thanks all - will have a play later when I am not in the office start with Windows Media player and if I cant get that to work will try the CDex suggested by Brush
Hi, I use a programme called dB Poweramp (its free) and its very good indeed for ripping in a wide variety of file formats (FLAC, WAV ALCC, Mp3 etc etc) and interrogates 4 seperate databases for the album art etc. If any of this is making you think I know what I am doing with computers, please think again. Its just very simple and works a treat and the help on the website/forum is ace !!
