Which format to rip music?
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- David York
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Alright all you music aficionados, it's time for me to update my music collection. It's been so long that I'm not sure what format I ripped my tunes into last time. I 'think' it was mp3 VBR. Anyways, that was several years ago and I have new music that hasn't been ripped yet. I also have music that I just don't listen to anymore.
Which format is the best for quality yet is space friendly? I did a test with WMA lossless and it was 400MB+ when ripped. That may be a bit much storage space not so much for my hard drive storage space but on portable players.
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- Dan L
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- 256k MP3 works for me...good balance of quality vs size...
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- Bob Ateah
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Dan L wrote:
256k MP3 works for me...good balance of quality vs size...
Archive quality - same as I use.
Fyi, a great free ripper +:
audacity.sourceforge.net/ (you may need to have the lame_enc.dll on your system to export mp3)
With Audacity, you can also record streaming audio.
On a completely unrelated note
, great streaming tunes for free at
www.pandora.com
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A free pure ripper that I used to use that is easy to use but does the job is Audiograbber .
Cheers! - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- David York
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- Testing WMA VBR gave incredible audio and excellent storage results. It is built right into WMP11. I set the options to rip automatically when CD is loaded into drive and then eject when done ripping. FYI - Ripping on my e6300 C2D with 2GB RAM, I was switching disks 2-3 times faster than my Dell Inspiron 9300 with a Pentium-M 1.73GHz with 1GB RAM.
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