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Originally Posted by plib
I use ExactAudioCopy to rip CDs to FLAC. EAC is completely free and is generally acknowledged as the most accurate CD ripper available. It can be set up to rip to either FLAC or mp3 format, or both. There's a very good guide to setup and usage at this EAC Setup Guide page. Properly set up EAC is close to one-click operation and should give you the most accurate rips possible.
For conversion to other formats dbPoweramp is a very good, and very capable converter. It's not free, but not expensive either and well worth the money for the capabilities and ease of use. (dbPoweramp does have a ripping capability but I'd recommend sticking with EAC for the ripping and just use dbPoweramp for format conversion).
I think the combination of the two is definitely the best, and about the easiest, way of ripping your CDs to quality files in just about any format you could want.
Edit: If you want to edit the tags produced by EAC or dbPoweramp then Mp3Tag is a very good, free tag editor which can edit FLAC, mp3, Ogg Vorbis, iTunes mp4 and other music file tags. It works well with both of the other programs. |
I'll look into EAC. My bulk days are over, just the occasional CD. I have been using Sound Forge 6.0 (I got it free with a CD burner years ago) to rip with, and then trans-audio to convert. I also don't use the stock Sansa firmware, but Rockbox instead.