Poll
Question:
What app do you use for CD Ripping?
Option 1: Phatnoise Media / Music Manager
votes: 1
Option 2: Exact Audio Copy
votes: 6
Option 3: Windows Media Player
votes: 1
Option 4: Audiograbber
votes: 0
Option 5: dBPowerAmp
votes: 0
Option 6: Foobar2000
votes: 0
Option 7: iTunes
votes: 0
Option 8: Something not listed (please post it below)
votes: 2
I am curious about what tools people use.. so these threads are to find out. Please vote in each!
Jet Audio - seems to work OK for me
EAC for extraction to FLAC.
Foobar for converting voice prompts.
Interestingly enough, I use PMM for ripping the CD direct to the DMS [and that's probably why my Head unit display is all-sides up].
However, I also use WMP.
If it's a live stream/DJ set of my own - I also use FairStars Audio Converter to drop the bitrate/change stream type.
I use Itunes, because it sucks... I want to have my music in itunes db, and phatnoise db. If i am ripping alot, it is a pain to import into Itunes, so i just rip with itunes, and import into PMM. much smoother this way.
Unless I want FLAC, then I use PMM.
I was also using Mediacoder for awhile, which is nice for transcoding into OGG. I moslty use that now for Video.
When I ripped the bulk of my CD collection to MP3s a few years ago, I used MusicMatch Jukebox Plus. At the time its CD ripping was the fastest by far, though the rest of the program was bloated and buggy.
Speaking of bloated programs, what I use now is Nero, which is also very fast.
I've now switched to PhatHack Media Manager for CD Ripping.
Does exactly what I want it to - but then I am also biased, as I wrote it ;)