Topic: CD to WAV???

[crobs808]

What is the best CD to WAV converter.  I am making a Live Music Website for an artist, and I need to know what is the best CD - WAV converter, cause I have the tracks aren't all cut at the right place, so i have to edit them and all, so whats the best program for ripping to WAV? thanks

~connor

[yemncsu]

Are you trying to put music from a CD on the computer? if so  Exact Audio Copy will take wav data from a CD to your hard drive. 

Josh

[crobs808]

yeah, im trying to rip from CD to WAV files to my harddrive so I can edit them

~connor

[crobs808]

I am using Audiograbber, it is working great, thank for the help anyway

~connor

[setboy]

uese   Exact Audio Copy (EAC) its the best


Raphael

[greenone]

Definitely EAC. It's the most paranoid ripper out there and will go over each sector of your disc up to 32 times to make sure it's getting the right data...

[crobs808]

well i would use it, but you have to change alot of settings once you install it, it doesnt just install with the settings you need, and i have a perfectly good lame.exe that i use for encoding with every other program and it couldnt even make it work for mp3 encoding, so im using audiograbber for cd-to-wav, and it is working fine

thanks

p..s - plus, when i actually did start EAC with a CD, it said 4 hours to rip it to WAVs! lol.  I have a P4, 2.6ghz processor, lol it should not take that long.  anyway, audiograbber did a whole CD in about 10 minutes max, and played side by side with the CD on the same system (2 subwoofers, 8 surround sound speakers) they sound equivalent.  since we are making these for computer streaming, i think that is enough to check for

[taperkat]

Audiograbber causes clicks and is not bit perfect.

EAC doesn't take anything to set up. Just download install and poof.

[setboy]

Audiograbber causes clicks and is not bit perfect.

EAC doesn't take anything to set up. Just download install and poof.

i think it does take some thing to set up

Raphael

[Brian Skalinder]

Audiograbber causes clicks and is not bit perfect.

EAC doesn't take anything to set up. Just download install and poof.

i think it does take some thing to set up

Raphael

It will function immediately after the install without introducing artifacts into the rip.  If you want it to perform true bit-perfect DAE, you'll need to configure the offsets (and maybe some other options) for your particular drive.

As the original question asks: "What is the best CD to WAV converter?", EAC is, in my mind without a doubt, the *best* DAE tool available.

[taperkat]

Yeah, I remember tweakng a couple things, but isn't tweaking usually normal on everything? lol.

[crobs808]

i have ripped and edited 5 shows now, (10 cds) and no clicks or pops as was stated with audiograbber.  i use nero wav editor to edit them, most tapers would laugh at that, but it does the job, and it still keeps the WAV is the same format and quality, so i am happy.  i will be using the nero audio file converter to convert them to Real Audio 9 (RM) files.  they should be fine for the website.

~connor

[taperkat]

Oh.. if you're converting to real audio, it doesn't matter much.

*shudders at RA files.*

[C.Clark]

another vote for EAC, its rock solid, you wont be dissapointed with the ease of ripping cd's with it

[crobs808]

yeah, i know RA files sucks, but when you have to fit 50 concerts (100 CD's) into 10gb webspace...well you tell me a better format to stream it in.  WMV of the same bitrate is bigger file size, and sounds muted

and, i dont wanna use EAC cause it wanted to take 4 hours a disk, even with the good computer i have, and i dont wanna take 4 hours just to rip a disc to WAVs since i have 100 CDs to rip, and editing each CD takes another 30-45 minutes.  I have to have all these edited within a week, and go to school, and go to my 2 jobs, etc..etc...  blah, oh well, thanks for the advice anyway, and in the future if i just have 1 or 2 CDs to do, i will use EAC, for now, I cannot afford to wait 400 hours (4hours x 100CDs)

~connor