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Magnusfarce
 
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I'm beginning the process of digitizing my large audio CD collection into
..wav files. I'm planning to use Nero (5.5) to rip the albums, and need some
help with the more subtle aspects of using the program, e.g., album data
handling and anti-jitter settings. Are there any good sites for this, and
which new groups would be best to pursue this topic? I've been part of a
recent informative thread in the rec.audio.high-end group, but I'm not sure
that's the right place for this topic. Any help would be appreciated.

- Magnusfarce


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Arny Krueger
 
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"Magnusfarce" wrote in message
k.net...
I'm beginning the process of digitizing my large audio CD collection into
.wav files. I'm planning to use Nero (5.5) to rip the albums, and need

some
help with the more subtle aspects of using the program, e.g., album data
handling and anti-jitter settings. Are there any good sites for this, and
which new groups would be best to pursue this topic? I've been part of a
recent informative thread in the rec.audio.high-end group, but I'm not

sure
that's the right place for this topic. Any help would be appreciated.


I have Nero but I wouldn't use it for this purpose because it lacks the
pedigree for accurate ripping of its freeware competitors. I use either EAC
or CDEX, which you can find easily using google.

Album data is easy - just pick one of the supplied CDDB sites and go for it!


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Thanks for the help. When you say that album data is easy, I may be
misunderstanding you. Since I own all these CD's, I have all the album info
I need. What I'm looking for is a way to get this info into the wav file
without manually typing all of it.

What quality or accuracy issues are there with Nero compared to other
rippers? Is this a well understood problem? I downloaded iTunes and tried
it, and it produced files exactly the same length as the Nero rips. Does
this mean that both files are clean and accurate?

- Magnusfarce





"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Magnusfarce" wrote in message
k.net...
I'm beginning the process of digitizing my large audio CD collection

into
.wav files. I'm planning to use Nero (5.5) to rip the albums, and need

some
help with the more subtle aspects of using the program, e.g., album data
handling and anti-jitter settings. Are there any good sites for this,

and
which new groups would be best to pursue this topic? I've been part of

a
recent informative thread in the rec.audio.high-end group, but I'm not

sure
that's the right place for this topic. Any help would be appreciated.


I have Nero but I wouldn't use it for this purpose because it lacks the
pedigree for accurate ripping of its freeware competitors. I use either

EAC
or CDEX, which you can find easily using google.

Album data is easy - just pick one of the supplied CDDB sites and go for

it!




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Mark Nelson
 
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As far as album info, some of the ripping software have interfaces to FreeDB
or similar, so that you can automatically pull down artist/album/song
information from the 'net. I'm not sure about Nero, but I imagine it does.
If not, you might try AudioGrabber...

Mark

"Magnusfarce" wrote in message
.net...
Thanks for the help. When you say that album data is easy, I may be
misunderstanding you. Since I own all these CD's, I have all the album

info
I need. What I'm looking for is a way to get this info into the wav file
without manually typing all of it.

What quality or accuracy issues are there with Nero compared to other
rippers? Is this a well understood problem? I downloaded iTunes and

tried
it, and it produced files exactly the same length as the Nero rips. Does
this mean that both files are clean and accurate?

- Magnusfarce





"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...

"Magnusfarce" wrote in message
k.net...
I'm beginning the process of digitizing my large audio CD collection

into
.wav files. I'm planning to use Nero (5.5) to rip the albums, and

need
some
help with the more subtle aspects of using the program, e.g., album

data
handling and anti-jitter settings. Are there any good sites for this,

and
which new groups would be best to pursue this topic? I've been part

of
a
recent informative thread in the rec.audio.high-end group, but I'm not

sure
that's the right place for this topic. Any help would be appreciated.


I have Nero but I wouldn't use it for this purpose because it lacks the
pedigree for accurate ripping of its freeware competitors. I use either

EAC
or CDEX, which you can find easily using google.

Album data is easy - just pick one of the supplied CDDB sites and go for

it!






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Arny Krueger
 
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"Magnusfarce" wrote in message
.net

Thanks for the help. When you say that album data is easy, I may be
misunderstanding you. Since I own all these CD's, I have all the
album info I need. What I'm looking for is a way to get this info
into the wav file without manually typing all of it.


I don't know any way to do this - even though .wav files by definition have
space available for non-audio information.

What quality or accuracy issues are there with Nero compared to other
rippers? Is this a well understood problem? I downloaded iTunes and
tried it, and it produced files exactly the same length as the Nero
rips. Does this mean that both files are clean and accurate?


Matching lengths is a good thing, but its not the most critical relevant
test.

My favored means for checking the accuracy of a ripper is to do a
byte-byte-byte file comparison on the same disc done twice. Both CDEX and
EAC include utilities for doing this.

Many ripping programs can do a good job on discs in good condition. The more
important test is how a ripping program works on discs that are scratched up
quite a bit.



 
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