Best ripper software is?

[ShadowBoxer]

Windows: freac, tag-scanner

 

[Deleted member 78499]

I found an old licence of media monkey, it got a ripper, but don't really know it's good?

but, just trow in an old copy of my old database, with amazing result and play bit perfect, so it don't pass by the windows mixer, but play what in the file, so far, not much modifying tag, and mm ask when he made change!

my ripping sequence, wasn't right, i had album artist instead of artist album, but with mm, it work fine, but no streaming in all the house!

and apple airplay won't recognize those modify file!

so far, exact audio copy, seem right, i don't want any software to loudness my music, sorry replay gain truncate the upper range and the below range of music to make more compression than needed!

 

[Petrushka]

I found an old licence of media monkey, it got a ripper, but don't really know it's good?

but, just trow in an old copy of my old database, with amazing result and play bit perfect, so it don't pass by the windows mixer, but play what in the file, so far, not much modifying tag, and mm ask when he made change!

my ripping sequence, wasn't right, i had album artist instead of artist album, but with mm, it work fine, but no streaming in all the house!

and apple airplay won't recognize those modify file!

so far, exact audio copy, seem right, i don't want any software to loudness my music, sorry replay gain truncate the upper range and the below range of music to make more compression than needed!

EAC can rip directly to FLAC.

EAC and FLAC - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase

wiki.hydrogenaud.io

Note it requires an external program. The download link is in the article.

 

[boxerfan88]

I use EAC/Windows

 

[PjV]

I use XLD on MacOs to rip to flac, and MusicBrainz Picard for the metadata and correct directory/file naming.
Some CDs with copy protection only ripped correctly using Apple Music. (I don't understand why.)
XLD can convert those alac files to flac too.
I have some CDs with pre emphasis, I still need a recipe to fix those.

 

[pablolie]

features i think are worth looking for:

1. an online database of other rips of the same CD (although I tend to be often one of the first providing data) to establish accuracy
2. secure rip (aka rip repeatedly and check for the same result or slow down as the problematic area is re-ripped)
3. access to accurate online databases about the CD so i (ideally) don't have to tediously add titles, artists, collaborators, composers etc (although as mentioned above i have regularly been the first)

like others have said, dbPoweramp became my choice many years ago, and the occasional upgrade doesn't kill the bank ($29 or so every few years or so) and it includes all the features above and some.

not at all disputing there are several good choices out there.

PS: the album art you still have to scan for yourself, there are preciously few sources of quality album art (i contribute it to discogs, but i guess they scale it down for copyright reasons - shame).

 

[dualazmak]

I am Windows guy, and I highly recommend dBpoweramp.

For my policy and practice on organization of digital music (and video) library, please refer here.
For backup policy and practice, please refer here.

 

[Deleted member 78499]

after ripping, any software, to clean it? i have 3 database/copy that i put together, and now same track twice or third, without the same title!

best of, best of remastered, 20th best of, etc...
always the same album but the title was change to milk customer, and revoke past purchase!

 

[Deleted member 78499]

So for the tag:

Genre/artist/album/title/track/date
or
Genre/date/artist/album/title/track

any software/app, that does that automatically?

40000 titles, here!

 

[Count Arthur]

So for the tag:

Genre/artist/album/title/track/date
or
Genre/date/artist/album/title/track

any software/app, that does that automatically?

40000 titles, here!

JRiver Media Center: https://www.jriver.com/

I use it to rip my CDs and also include albums downloaded from Bandcamp and Qobuz.

When you rip a CD it will look-up the information on-line and find the album artwork:

 

[dualazmak]

I wrote in my above post #27 as follows.
For my policy and practice on organization of digital music (and video) library, please refer here.
For backup policy and practice, please refer here.

 

[Deleted member 78499]

i want something compatible with airplay

and a reliable good database, that i don't have to do tag, or less than a 100 to work.
just put the software and let it go!

my problem, original problem, i get rid of all, the fuss (live; best; remastemerd, etc) in the title
and had has album musician, and in song (feat. artist name)

and get rid of all compilation tag

it was working fine, but i mistakenly Clic update in apple, when switch from spotify to apple!

anyway, i have plenty of backup, it just, the database work with new version, not the original title, so most of the time, lot's of crap!

yesterday, merge my 3 backup of the last 3 decade together, and made a copy, and trying 1 software at a time (spare time, i have a lot of that, since retirement! ) so why not test software (free software).

Also, not a A.I. guy, work 40 years with computer guy, since MSDOS and mainframe, and one thing sure, it get worse, before it get good!

anyway, thanks for your help, i learn a lot, by reading you, there is no wrong answer, just chalenge! and it's ok that way!

BTW, AI, is suppose to resolve all this, with multitude software and manage that!

i would like to be like my wife, with computer: "it won't work, close the thing, the end!"

but, I am not like that!

 

[Deleted member 78499]

BTW, discover, if you're tire of bad google result, you could set up, your search in verbatim, so it search the word, you want it search, not the:
"AI/wife that think she know what you mean she mean't in her dream of knowing what she think you knowed in her dream"

Hope it help, don't know where to put it!

 

[pablolie]

after ripping, any software, to clean it? i have 3 database/copy that i put together, and now same track twice or third, without the same title!

best of, best of remastered, 20th best of, etc...
always the same album but the title was change to milk customer, and revoke past purchase!

dbPoweramp does retrieve information from different sources automatically, and you can configure the tagging "hierarchy" any way you want. These days it seems to cover pretty much everything automatically. Also does the comparison with other rips of the same album to ensure there aren't errors. Can do multiple rip passes and such...

The same company offer PerfectTunes to do the kind of cleanup you refer to... finding duplicates and rip errors, replay-gain stuff and many other things. It's pretty smart. I have zero affiliation with the company, needless to say.

 

[Count Arthur]

I haven't used Mac OS, for decades; last time I used an Apple Mac, it still had a floppy drive.

JRiver is available for MacOS: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,140250.msg972901.html

And it looks like it works with Airplay - kind of: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,140250.msg972901.html

 

[DVDdoug]

If you choose a ripper that supports AccurateRip you can be assured of getting a bit-perfect rip (as long as the CD is in the database and assuming it doesn't report an error/mismatch).

I use EAC or CueRipper. dBPoweramp also supports AccurateRip.

For editing tags I use MP3Tag (which works on all popular formats, not just MP3).

sorry replay gain truncate the upper range and the below range of music to make more compression than needed!

ReplayGain is a simple-linear volume adjustment. It does NOT hurt audio quality. In fact it doesn't touch the audio data at all! It adds a "tag" that's read by the player software to adjust the volume before playback starts. And of course you can disable it in your player software and it won't do anything if your player doesn't support it.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

I use freac mostly for ripping. I also use foobar2000 for breaking up monolithic files into their playlist components. I've used eac too.

 

[Bernd]

ReplayGain is a simple-linear volume adjustment. It does NOT hurt audio quality. In fact it doesn't touch the audio data at all! It adds a "tag" that's read by the player software to adjust the volume before playback starts. And of course you can disable it in your player software and it won't do anything if your player doesn't support it.

Thanks for this info. That seems the best way to do it Would happen to know if Roon supports this feature?

 

[pablolie]

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ReplayGain is a simple-linear volume adjustment. It does NOT hurt audio quality. In fact it doesn't touch the audio data at all! It adds a "tag" that's read by the player software to adjust the volume before playback starts. And of course you can disable it in your player software and it won't do anything if your player doesn't support it.

The ReplayGain topic probably deserves its very own discussion.

I have observed instances where ReplayGain tags can push things into distortion. I have also never ever found a single tool that can truly always "volume level" across all albums/playlists/songs.

I am in the process of exterminating ReplayGain tags in my music library every time I still come across them.

 

[Bernd]

@pablolie: agreed, a specific thread should be opened. Just a last question: afaik the program usage works via command line input. Is there any GUI for it?