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Turning CD Tracks into MP3s?

 
 
All Acting Regiment
10:44 / 07.09.05
Turning CD Tracks into MP3s?

Or WAV files for that matter.

How can it be done for free? What software do you need?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:48 / 07.09.05
Uh... almost anything.iTunes will do it. If you're using Windows, there's a very good free program called CDex. Audacity will do it as well, but it's overfeatured for your needs.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
11:09 / 07.09.05
Thanks for that.
 
 
Sjaak at the Shoe Shop
12:45 / 07.09.05
Some usertips for CDEx:

When using CDEx you need to set some of the options (under 'options', surprisingly)
Need to set the minimum bitrate, 192 is typically a good balance between quality & filesize

you can set the filename output format (I normally use %1-%2(%Y)\%7-%4, which results in artist-album(year)\song no - song title)

and you can set the ID tags. Normally both V1 and V2.

hopefully this is of use
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:47 / 07.09.05
You can also usually automatically download the track titles and authors from the Gracenote remote CDDB.

Oh, and to encode to MP3 I think you have to download the LAME codec from somewhere else and drop it into the program file - there will be instructions on the site.
 
 
Mistoffelees
13:56 / 07.09.05
I use dBpowerAMP Music Converter. You can convert your CD songs into wavs, mp3s, whatever. It´s very good.
 
 
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14:07 / 07.09.05
I like Mediamonkey, myself, as the library and player synchoniser is pretty nice. Also does OGGs.
 
 
charrellz
14:08 / 07.09.05
I have been quite pleased with Audiograbber. It even properly rips tracks that are too scratched for iTunes to deal with. An excellent program which I highly recommend.