Music Ripping Software

[Raziaar]

Hey guys. I'm being asked to research some music ripping software to rip music from some cds so that my dad's new wife can play them on a portable music player thing my dad got her for Christmas or whatever.

I'm not big in the music crowd and I don't know anything of this sort.

She has a bunch of old person (lol) cds she owns that she wants to put some songs from them onto the thing, but I don't know what software would be good to do it and get a reliable rip.

I know there's a lot of music buffs here who do this sort of thing. Throw out some suggestions and anything I should know.

 

[Vegeta897]

You can do it with Windows Media Player.

 

[Krynn72]

Yup. If you have Windows Media Player 11, you should just see a tab at the top saying "RIP"

 

[Vegeta897]

Or when you pop in the CD you can choose to rip it from the menu thing that comes up.

 

[CyberPitz]

Or you can just use your big muscles to rip it, you pansey.

 

[kineaesth]

Make sure that if you're copying them off again you rip it in a suitably high quality.

 

[Krynn72]

Or when you pop in the CD you can choose to rip it from the menu thing that comes up.

NOT EVERYBODY HAS AUTOPLAY ENABLED GOD VEGETA.




capsnotowned

 

[Vegeta897]

Well by default it's on.

 

[Krynn72]

You're on by default.


/arms

 

[Raziaar]

So you guys are thinking Windows Media Player 11 should do a good job of it?

I was reading this on wikipedia.

Obtaining an accurate rip

CD audio has two major design constraints that make it difficult to obtain accurate copies in the form of a standard digital file. First, the system is designed to provide audio in real time in order to ensure continuous playback without gaps. For this reason, it does not provide a reliable stream of data from the disc to the computer.

Secondly, the designers felt that it would be preferable for major scratches in the disc to be covered up rather than resulting in total failure. Normally, an error correction system such as Reed Solomon would provide either a perfect copy of the original error-free data, or no result at all. However, CD audio's Cross-interleaved Reed-Solomon coding includes an extra facility that interpolates across uncorrectable errors. This means that the data read from an audio CD may not in fact be a faithful reproduction of the original.

Another practical factor in obtaining faithful copies of the music data is that different CD drives have widely varying quality for reading audio. Some drives such as Plextor are thought to deliver extremely accurate copies while others may do little or no error correction and even misreport error correction information.

Obtaining an accurate digital extraction or "rip" under these circumstances is difficult. iTunes includes an "error correction" mode in its CD importing system. Technical information about this mode is not available from Apple, but it probably ensures that iTunes will attempt to error-correct all data it reads off the disc. However, iTunes does not report if interpolation occurred due to uncorrectable errors.

There is specialized software that will attempt to correct errors, and also attempt to report if errors could not be corrected. They use a variety of techniques, such as making use of error correction information, knowledge of the peculiarities of different drives, and ripping multiple times and comparing the results. All of these programs are still susceptible to some degree to poor CD drives.

 

[Vegeta897]

I have never had any sort of problems ripping CDs, using any program.

I don't understand at all what that article is talking about. I can only assume it's stuff that only an audiophile would be able to detect.

Absolutely nothing your mom needs to worry about... Sorry, your "dad's new wife"

 

[Raziaar]

Absolutely nothing your mom needs to worry about... Sorry, your "dad's new wife"

Yeah... and you best keep it that way lest I slit your throat in your sleep.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

All CDs I've ripped through WMP have been absolutely fine. As Veggies says, it's probably written by an audiophile who can hear wildebeest 30 miles away.

 

[Sanada]

All this stuff about "accurate rips" is mearly about obtaining a copy of the music from the CD without any glitches or copying errors caused by anything from a scratched CD to a poor CD drive. There's a whole database of CRCs (or something like that) which will tell you if your rip is accurate to ones in the database. Due to the constaints mentioned in that article, these are the things that have been done to help obtain an accurate copy.

If you care about getting accurate rips then use a program like EAC (Exact Audio Copy). If you just want to quickly copy music to MP3 files then use WMP or something similar.

 

[Raziaar]

My dad said Windows Media Player worked, so I'm just going to let them go with that. Free, works well. Fine by me.

Thanks guys.