Best ripper software is?

[Deleted member 78499]

my cat, decided, to throw to the floor my NAS (ok, it's me, i drop it), and i decided to rip again in FLAC and ALAC, my entire collection.

One will be with apple, for convenience and random play album to the entire house with airplay!

But for the other in FLAC, i am using NERO (audible access), for is access to database info, same as apple, that is very accurate for tag.

So here my Questions:
- what is the best ripper
- what is the best tag path: *Artist/album/track/year or *Album/Artist/track/year or *Year/Album/Artist/track?
- Some of my ALAC file are unplayable on my other mac, any clue why?

what are your recommandation?

 

[Jimbob54]

I always used dbpoweramp on pc. Sure there are many others though

 

[dedobot]

Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences

www.exactaudiocopy.de

 

[sergeauckland]

Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences

www.exactaudiocopy.de

That's the one I've used for a good few years. Works very well, and it's good to know when a rip is error free.

S.

 

[Petrushka]

I’ve used EAC for years because it is free. I haven’t paid for a good tagging database, and freedb is kind of iffy.

I’ve spend a lot of time in Media Monkey manually correcting metadata.

 

[escape2]

I use whatever tools and encoders are built in Foobar2000 (with the free encoder pack).

 

[sergeauckland]

I’ve used EAC for years because it is free. I haven’t paid for a good tagging database, and freedb is kind of iffy.

I’ve spend a lot of time in Media Monkey manually correcting metadata.

As most of my music is classical or Jazz, I've never found ANY database to be any good. I always have to correct/change the tagging on every rip. Even for pop/rock rips, the genre is terribly random. I only want one genre called Rock/Pop/Folk/Blues, not 50 stupid classifications. Similarly, any music that's not Jazz or Rock/Pop/Folk/Blues is Classical, so don't want a dozen different genres for Concertos, Symphonies etc, and especially not further broken down by Early, Baroque, Classical, Romantic etc etc.

S.

 

[Esprit]

Mac?

X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X

 

[audio_tony]

If you have any Linux knowledge, use 'abcde' (yes, it's really called that) which uses cdparanoia to rip the CD - cdparanoia is very accurate and can rip to numerous different formats.

It will also download cover art of a decent size with the glyrc plugin.

abcde also has various configuration options for the paths / filenames etc.

 

[ISchmidt]

On Windows Exact Audio Copy (EAC) for ripping.
MP3Tag for all the work afterwards: cover, tags, filename etc., you can import tags from online databases like Discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz, and more: https://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

 

[Deleted member 78499]

As most of my music is classical or Jazz, I've never found ANY database to be any good. I always have to correct/change the tagging on every rip. Even for pop/rock rips, the genre is terribly random. I only want one genre called Rock/Pop/Folk/Blues, not 50 stupid classifications. Similarly, any music that's not Jazz or Rock/Pop/Folk/Blues is Classical, so don't want a dozen different genres for Concertos, Symphonies etc, and especially not further broken down by Early, Baroque, Classical, Romantic etc etc.

S.

Agree, almost the same, except, i had one category: Folk/singer-songwritter!

One problem, with digital purchases, when you change that, sometimes, you lose your copies!

so open a second account that i use only for streaming, that allowed me to copy, all my files and than operate my standardization to my database. That way, i keep original as original as possible!

the other way around is listening CD, with shazam/soundhound it and apple, to identify the correct/current version of my CD, and upload it to music!

 

[Deleted member 78499]

If you have any Linux knowledge, use 'abcde' (yes, it's really called that) which uses cdparanoia to rip the CD - cdparanoia is very accurate and can rip to numerous different formats.

It will also download cover art of a decent size with the glyrc plugin.

abcde also has various configuration options for the paths / filenames etc.

since microsoft, use china IA, i am willing to learn linux... or whatever that don't mess reality with algorith!

 

[Roland68]

For rips with the Mac I would definitely recommend XLD, it's very good and very powerful. You only need to rip once into a lossless format and then you can convert everything as you like in batches.
You can also find several manuals for XLD that have been written by users.

 

[Roland68]

I’ve used EAC for years because it is free. I haven’t paid for a good tagging database, and freedb is kind of iffy.

I’ve spend a lot of time in Media Monkey manually correcting metadata.

With XLD you can store several databases, including Amazon's.
I have a lot of very rare jazz and classical CDs, and it was really rare that the information couldn't be found at all. Then only discogs can help.

 

[Petrushka]

With XLD you can store several databases, including Amazon's.
I have a lot of very rare jazz and classical CDs, and it was really rare that the information couldn't be found at all. Then only discogs can help.

It’s not so much that information can’t be found as it is the information isn’t consistently formatted.

Most players only display album title, song title, genre, and artist.

With classical you have composer, title, movement, performing group, conductor, soloist, and such.

 

[Amperage]

+1 for XLD

 

[kiwifi]

dbPowerAmp for MacOS

 

[Timcognito]

dbPowerAmp for MacOS

and Windows

 

[Deleted member 78499]

that sentence, sound like loudness ripping from dbpoweramp?

"Volume Normalize" ripping!
process the audio with Volume Normalize, or HDCD decoding to 24 bit. dBpoweramp is a fully featured CD Ripper.

 

[keithm55]

I use three of the illustrate (dbpoweramp) products
(1) dbpoweramp (music converter, cd ripper and batch converter)
Music converter and cd ripper does what you think
Batch converter makes processing of multiple files and has a lot of useful functions

I recently decided to add a plex server for my music files to support the wiim ultra I just got.
Plex is pretty picky about file naming/organization and this is where the batch converter saved the day.
In addition to normal audio processing (format conversions, adding replaygain to tags, etc.) it has the ability to "arrange audio".
Basically it allows you to rename/move audio track using information from the id tags.
Since the id tags in my music files was in good shape, I was able to use the "arrange audio" to rename my files into the plex preferred naming (artist/album/track# - title)
See arrange audio "codec"

(2) Perfect tunes (album art, id tags, dedup, accurate rip, replaygain)
(3) Tunefusion - My music files are in flac format. Not all the different players in my household handle high res flac files. I use tunefusion to create a mp3 copy of the master flac files. Tune fusion is smart, it will search the flac source and only create mp3 files that are missing (like when I add new music)