Hello everyone LOL

Right, how do I save all songs from a Cd onto my Pc ready for making a Cd of my own should I want too?

Not got a disc changer and the door pockets are full of Albums ROFL

 

Nero

"Save tracks" option

 

agreed... dont use Media Player because it converts them to WMA

 

Save as high quality mp3's yeah?

 

Save them at 192k for best sound, the files will be slightly bigger but you will have a wider frequency range. IE. If you encode them at 128k (as most do) then you will loose alot of the bass when they are played on a good system

 

I noticed that on my ICE when someone put in an mp3 converted CD - hated it
But have heard good mp3 CD's too

Cheers

 

Thats cause they are using 128k or lower rate, no one ever seems to listen to me about this subject!

 

I use EAC with the LAME encoder and use VBR.

The one I played in your car James was created like this and you said it sounded sweeeeet.

 

I saved tracks on Nero
But saved as mp3's rather than mp4's
Saved them as 128kb though, can this be changed or not bother?

 

You could only change them from 128 to 192 be redoing them.
If you have a file of a certain bitrate, you CAN make it a higher one, but obviously it wont sound any different as the frequencies that would make the difference from 128 to 192 have already been removed.
The best thing to do is to find tune with a fair bit of bass and do one of each, then you can hear the difference for yourself and decide if you want to fit more on a cd (smaller file size for 128) or want to hear bass as deep as it was meant to be!

 

EAC and LAME

 

may as well just convert them in media player..
You can convert to either MP3 or WMA files and choose the bit rate...
Easy as fuck too.
Put the cd in open media player click 'rip cd'
choose the encoding quality..
Job done

 

I use Media player and they save as WMA, but then I only burn music onto CD as music files, not MP3 files (so they play in normal CD player)

If I need to make an MP3 disc then I use this;

http://www.download.com/Cheetah-Audi...ml?tag=lst-0-3

Quality piece of freeware, allows you to convert any music file from one type to another (not just WMZ,WAV etc to only MP3, you can do it the other way around etc) and also choose the bit rate and the frequency rate aswell

 

downloading at the mo

 

I use WinAMP 5 Pro to do my CD to MP3 conversion, works a treat!

 

I originally only downloaded that Cheetah Audio Converter as I wanted to send a music file to someone with a MAC (who obviously can't play WMA files) but I have used it a lot more since then too! Very handy piece of kit indeed

Now my version of Media Player (version 9) will only let me rip from CD's and save as WMA, whereas the new PC we have has version 10 and lets you rip as WMA or MP3 (both my version 9 and the new version 10 let you select bit rates from way low to 192k - even above that aswell)

Is it possible for me to rip music off a CD as a WAV file tho? And rip it at 192k or above? As I have been told that a 192k WAV music file is as perfectly close to the originally CD as is possible without using a proper CD Duplicator.... Can I do this?

 

You can change the default option in Windows Media Player 10 to .mp3 from .wma though

Also the bitrate, I set it at 320kbps

 

I can adjust birate, Jamz, Ade and Martyn are you suggesting using 190k?

 

192 and above. I use Variable Bit Rate so swaps from 160 to 320.

 

So anyone know how I can rip to WAV @ 192k?

 

I use musicmatch jukebox to convert cd - mp3 www.musicmatch.com

 

 

EAC should do what you want Thrush

 

i recommend 256kbps as a "norm", 192k as absolute minimum.

even 192k doesnt sound as well as it shud on my home system.

 

Adrian - EAC?

 

Exact Audio Copy

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

 

Cool, thanks - give that a read later