I’m assuming you are ripping to flac. I left mine at the default which I believe is 5. Hard drive space is cheap. I use the replaygain dsp setting. There are two replaygain options though. One alters the file, the other adds replaygain info to the ID tag. Make sure to use the option that adds info to the ID tag. You do not want to permanently alter your files.

 

Is there a specific reason you settled on dBpoweramp? If you are looking for higher fidelity most folks consider Exact Audio Copy (EAC) the defacto standard.

Exact Audio Copy

Did I mention its free?

 

Is there a specific reason you settled on dBpoweramp? If you are looking for higher fidelity most folks consider Exact Audio Copy (EAC) the defacto standard.

Exact Audio Copy

Did I mention its free?

Dbpoweramp is much more feature packed, but it’s not free.

I use the default FLAC setting, I haven’t messed with the other compression settings much. I don’t apply any DSP, but I make sure all of the tags are they way I want them.

 

@Ge0 - i mistakenly thought EAC was only available for MAC. I just downloaded it and will explore it's options once I'm ready to start ripping. Otherwise, I'll use the trial version of Dbpoweramp.

thank you!

 

Great topic. But I'm moving it from General Car Audio Discussion to the Music Forum.

 

One feature that is super helpful for me in dbpoweramp is the multi-rip feature. I throw in a CD, and rip it to 2 different locations, in 2 different formats simultaneously. I'll send a lossless file to my external hardrive, and a smaller compressed file to a different folder to load onto my ipod/iphone to save space. I don't think EAC does that, then again, I don't know that most people care. I just like to have a lossless file archived permanently, and a more portable version handy for on the go listening.

 

I used Foobar2000 to rip about a 1,000 cds to FLAC. It has more features than EAC and is also free.

 

well, I downloaded Foobar2000, EAC and dBpoweramp. I'll try each and see which of them makes most sense for me. EAC is entiving because it has an AccurateRIP function. Not sure if the other two have that kind of error checking.

 

dBpoweramp has accuraterip, among them many other features, but as noted, it's not free, so EAC may be the way to go.

 

i tried EAC and couldn't exactly figure out how to get it to rip to FLAC files =\

I used dBpoweramp. Accuraterip wasn't active since I didn't have a "key" disc on hand.