Best for ripping CD's

[jadarin]

I've just bought myself the excellent JKdac32 and just wondering for transferring
cd's to Flac,lossless,WAV, which do people find the best and most convenient software for transferring files.
I've been using EAC,but it's really time consuming and a bit of a pain have to type all the album info.At this rate i could be hear a while,so any information on this would be a great help.
Also I can't find any options on ripping speeds on EAC.

[tony]

Hi Jadarin you can add freedb in the eac options and when you are adding a CD do a search for the cd and it hopefully should populate the tracks.You need to select the right options(naming convention) to get the track order preserved. You can also import album covers and also look for lyrics if available (I dont bother with the lyrics bit)

It is slow and you should copy in best quality (WAV) Some prefer flac but one or the other.

Dont go mad copying cd's until you are happy the set up is how you would like it to appear.

And as fran always advises and others get at least one external drive back. pixmania have 2tb drives for reasonable money (WD)

freedb metadata plugin is the one I am using. On one of the laptops I picked the wrong database provider and they had no album covers.

[Ken Moreland]

Copy all into WAV, even though uncompressed Flac=Wav, the player still has work to do uncompressing . The sound quality is audibly better and storage is cheap.
KM

[jadarin]

Thanks Tony,I'll give that a try.Hopefully this will save me a lot of time.Also i bought a 2TB from Maplins over the christmas,
which should do me for a while,but just wondering,do you store your music on your laptop as well as your external hd or do you back up all your
music files on another external hd.As for the 2pc option,I think that's a while off
for me to be comfortable messing around with that side of it.
Thanks again Tony..
John..

[jadarin]

Copy all into WAV, even though uncompressed Flac=Wav, the player still has work to do uncompressing . The sound quality is audibly better and storage is cheap.
KM

Thanks, Ken

[tony]

Thanks Tony,I'll give that a try.Hopefully this will save me a lot of time.Also i bought a 2TB from Maplins over the christmas,
which should do me for a while,but just wondering,do you store your music on your laptop as well as your external hd or do you back up all your
music files on another external hd.As for the 2pc option,I think that's a while off
for me to be comfortable messing around with that side of it.
Thanks again Tony..
John..

Hi John, I have the stuff on the laptop as well. Pixmania will supply you a 2tb for €90 including postage.
If using one pc/laptop set up it is handier to just have the stuff on the laptop.
Prices of laptops are dropping even in the last year. My first laptop (ever) was €435 for an i3 with 6gb and 750G storage.
Latest is i5 6gb upgradebable to 8gb and 1TB disk (€499) Dell have one for that price also but only 6gb ram.

take your time and enjoy the set up you have. If you would like to hear a 2 pc set up give me a shout any time. Hope to do a meitner dac(Pearse's)/jkdac32 day at some stage but it will probably be march.

JPlay settings if you can run your pc/laptop with this should be
xtreme, directlink, bitstream set to native, throttle set to on,hibernate to on and polarity normal.

Use jplay mini for best playback.

Now there are a myriad other options using tablets servers jriver etc and I am only suggesting the above as it is easier to set up initially.

Total commander is also worth trying and you just need the shell scripts for that.

Enjoy it currently big steps for me this weekend as I now have hires streaming wirelessly from one laptop to the jkdac32 laptop.
It is all very easy when Ken has done all the legwork!

[Rocker]

Copy all into WAV, even though uncompressed Flac=Wav, the player still has work to do uncompressing . The sound quality is audibly better and storage is cheap.
KM

SQ is only one element of the replay Ken. WAV files do not display any album covers [on the Squeezebox controller or iPad] for example. Does EAC pull down the song titles when the files are ripped to WAVs?

[tony]

SQ is only one element of the replay Ken. WAV files do not display any album covers [on the Squeezebox controller or iPad] for example. Does EAC pull down the song titles when the files are ripped to WAVs?[/quote]

I dont know Tom would have said that is the most important bit. wav using eac with database gives the song title but Pearse's set up using 2 laptops(pearse can correct this) and ipad using jriver and jplay has album art etc etc. State of the art from what I can see and sq is incredible.
Ipad and jriver and servers and headless is over my head and my budget at the moment but really enjoying the second laptop as it is providing remote control for track changing( a bit pricey for that only but the sound quality is a big lift for the less than the price of an expensive power cable)

[Fran]

You have to ask EAC to pull the album names - and it will do this OK, along with album art and lyrics etc if you want in about 90% of albums. The odd one though won't work cos it won't be able to find the info in the online databases.


Fran

[Rocker]

[quote="tony"]Pearse's set up using 2 laptops(pearse can correct this) and ipad using jriver and jplay has album art etc etc. State of the art from what I can see and sq is incredible.
quote]

Seems a very complicated way of listening to music Tony.