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03-13-2003, 12:27 PM
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Looking for a good quality program to record/play/encode CD's and MP3's.
Got the new HD running good and now I'm ready to load my CD collection onto it in MP3 format. I have used Musicmatch in the past but was told there were better quality software out there. I just liked the ease of use and the all in one features of musicmatch. Anyway, I want to convert my cd's to MP3 and burn MP3's and also regular CD's from the MP3's stored on the HD. What program(s) should I use to get good quality recordings and is easy to use and is fast?
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03-13-2003, 12:53 PM
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I recommend CDex for ripping MP3s:
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ And Nero for burning CDs: http://nero.com/en/index.html |
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03-13-2003, 01:25 PM
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Another vote for CDEX and Nero.
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03-16-2003, 11:56 PM
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Just started my first rip using CDex. It's taking a very long time. I chose "Extract CD tracks to Compressed Audio Files" and it's taking about 3-4 minutes per track. Is it supposed to take this long? Do I have to configure any settings or can I just use the default settings. It just doesn't seem to be redaing the tracks very fast.
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03-17-2003, 10:18 AM
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Why compress? If you're going to burn them just use CDEX's extraction, don't use compression. You can usually extract a whole CD to MP3 in about 5 minutes or less.
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03-17-2003, 11:29 AM
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I thought that's what I did. Isn't that extracting and converting to MP3? Anyway, I read the help manual a little and noticed that the defaults were still 0 for "CD speed" and 26 for the "Read Sectors". I have TDK 32/4/8 drive and I set the CD speed to 32 but don't know what number to putin the "Read Sectors" box. The higher number I put the faster the rip right?
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03-17-2003, 06:42 PM
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One more thing. Do you use Nero to decode or CDex? When I have MP3's on my system and I need to burn in WAV do I decode with Nero and burn or CDex then burn using nero? Also, when I convert to wav, it it stored on my drive cause that would take up a heck of a lot more space wouldn't it?
I guess I just need simple instructions to burn wav from MP3 and also MP3 from MP3. |
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03-18-2003, 05:22 AM
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hey guys i just used the CDex prog but converting cda files to wav or mp3 is not that easy as i thought it takes a lot of time before it was able to convert a single file...any tips??? thanks
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03-18-2003, 01:14 PM
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Jon,
Same thing just happened with me. I changed some settings and it seemed to go much faster. Try changeing the CD rom settings "Read Sector" to a higher number. The help manual says 400 but I'm still not quite sure what to set mine at. I also set my CD speed to 32 which is the read speed on my drive. You can also try setting a higher thread priority and see if that helps. |
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