Topic: Ripping with Itunes?

[Swampy]

So I have EAC and burn/rip with it all the time. But while I was playing around w/ itunes, I started wondering if I could just use Itunes to rip to wav??? I did a search and couldnt really come up with much, but Im sure its been covered. It would just be nice to have one less program on the computer I guess..

[John Kelly]

So I have EAC and burn/rip with it all the time. But while I was playing around w/ itunes, I started wondering if I could just use Itunes to rip to wav??? I did a search and couldnt really come up with much, but Im sure its been covered. It would just be nice to have one less program on the computer I guess..

It has an error correct function, but I doubt it's as good as EAC (although I haven't tested, so it could be).  If it's just for personal listening I'd say you could drop EAC, I've been using iTunes to rip mp3s since it came out.

[Xpanding Man]

So I have EAC and burn/rip with it all the time. But while I was playing around w/ itunes, I started wondering if I could just use Itunes to rip to wav??? I did a search and couldnt really come up with much, but Im sure its been covered. It would just be nice to have one less program on the computer I guess..

It has an error correct function, but I doubt it's as good as EAC (although I haven't tested, so it could be).  If it's just for personal listening I'd say you could drop EAC, I've been using iTunes to rip mp3s since it came out.

i second that emotion, but don't delete EAC from your apps....save it for that special disc that was in your car for a year w/ no case, then lent to a friend, then it was a coke mirror for a month....EAC is amazing on those, it's divine error correction from above

[Xpanding Man]

oh and kelly, why are you using itunes to rip to mp3 ?  i assume you mean mp4/aca files right  ?

[John Kelly]

oh and kelly, why are you using itunes to rip to mp3 ?  i assume you mean mp4/aca files right  ?

Depends.  Sometimes LAME mp3s, sometimes AAC files.  Depends on what I feel like.

[dnsacks]

Itunes is great for personal use stuff -- if its less-than-robust error correction misses a problem/causes a skip, you'll (eventually) catch it and can fix it on your copy.

Itunes, is not, otoh, a good idea for ripping live cds to be traded.  In this situation, you would never hear the problem and the recipient of the trade could have sent out a bunch of now-flawed disks (and/or bittorrented the flawed show) before the error was found. 

MP4/ACC/MP3 -- I use an Iaudio m3, which supports flac, ogg and mp3, but does not (yet?) support mp4 or acc.  My wife uses an ipod, which doesn't support ogg, but does support mp3.  In order to share between platforms, I've been ripping everything as 256k mp3s, do you think I should be ripping @ a higher bandwidth to maintain sound quality (256k mp3s sound surprisingly nice to me), or do you think that the acc/mp4/ogg advantages exist mainly at lower bitrates?

[Swampy]

cool, thanks for the advice everybody!