Music CD catalogue/ripper/complier/burner recommendation(s)

[Bazza]

Howdy group,

I know CD burners have been around for ages but I've only recently purchased one as part of a total overhaul of my PC. So all this ripping/burning stuff is new and somewhat confusing to me. Now that I've got one, my wife and children want to make their own "Best of" CD's from the 150 or so music CD's that we own.

Which is the best way to go -- multiple pgms or a all-in-one?

Ideally I don't want to have to rip the CD's over and over, however, I doubt that I've got enough HDD space to rip and store 150 or CD's, even after compression ... I suppose I could always buy another HDD.

I *think* I would prefer the all-in-one approach but if it's better to use multiple pgms, then so be it.

What pgm(s) do you suggest/recommend?

I'm running WinXP Pro SP1

Thanks very muchly
Bazza...

 

[Steven Burn]

Not sure what you need a compiler for but, for burning.....

DeepBurner
http://www.deepburner.com

For ripping

Rip Wiz 2003
http://www.it-mate.co.uk/support/ripwiz2003.asp

CDex
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

There are also a ton of catalogue programs available (I personally use my
own, but thats just me). Take a quick look on any/all of the following
freeware site's

www.webgrid.co.uk
www.pricelessware.org
www.freewarehome.com
www.freewarearena.org

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!


Howdy group,

I know CD burners have been around for ages but I've only recently purchased
one as part of a total overhaul of my PC. So all this ripping/burning stuff
is new and somewhat confusing to me. Now that I've got one, my wife and
children want to make their own "Best of" CD's from the 150 or so music CD's
that we own.

Which is the best way to go -- multiple pgms or a all-in-one?

Ideally I don't want to have to rip the CD's over and over, however, I doubt
that I've got enough HDD space to rip and store 150 or CD's, even after
compression ... I suppose I could always buy another HDD.

I *think* I would prefer the all-in-one approach but if it's better to use
multiple pgms, then so be it.

What pgm(s) do you suggest/recommend?

I'm running WinXP Pro SP1

Thanks very muchly
Bazza...

 

[Hougaarden]

Howdy group,

I know CD burners have been around for ages but I've only recently purchased one as part of a total overhaul of my PC. So all this ripping/burning stuff is new and somewhat confusing to me. Now that I've got one, my wife and children want to make their own "Best of" CD's from the 150 or so music CD's that we own.

Which is the best way to go -- multiple pgms or a all-in-one?

Ideally I don't want to have to rip the CD's over and over, however, I doubt that I've got enough HDD space to rip and store 150 or CD's, even after compression ... I suppose I could always buy another HDD.

I *think* I would prefer the all-in-one approach but if it's better to use multiple pgms, then so be it.

What pgm(s) do you suggest/recommend?

I'm running WinXP Pro SP1

Thanks very muchly
Bazza...

If you rip your CD's with EAC ( http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/ ) and turn
them into MP3's with LAME ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame ) setting
LAME with these parameters "--alt-preset insane %s %d", then you can put
150 CD's on a 20Gb HD with no quality loss. It's easy to make a play list
with WINAMP or to burn the MP3's of your choice to an audio-CD with your
CD-writer software.
PS EAC and LAME work together perfectly, so once you have worked out how
EAC works you never want any other software to rip CD's

Regards, Wilfried (Belgium)

 

[dadiOH]

Howdy group,

I know CD burners have been around for ages but I've only recently
purchased one as part of a total overhaul of my PC. So all this
ripping/burning stuff is new and somewhat confusing to me. Now
that I've got one, my wife and children want to make their own
"Best of" CD's from the 150 or so music CD's that we own.

Which is the best way to go -- multiple pgms or a all-in-one?

Ideally I don't want to have to rip the CD's over and over,
however, I doubt that I've got enough HDD space to rip and store
150 or CD's, even after compression ... I suppose I could always
buy another HDD.

I *think* I would prefer the all-in-one approach but if it's better
to use multiple pgms, then so be it.

What pgm(s) do you suggest/recommend?

My opinion of "all in ones" is "jack of all trades, master of none" .

For info and software suggestions, see my dandies below...

--
dadiOH
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dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
____________________________

 

[Ninou]

Howdy group,

I know CD burners have been around for ages but I've only recently purchased one as part of a total overhaul of my PC. So all this ripping/burning stuff is new and somewhat confusing to me. Now that I've got one, my wife and children want to make their own "Best of" CD's from the 150 or so music CD's that we own.

Which is the best way to go -- multiple pgms or a all-in-one?

Ideally I don't want to have to rip the CD's over and over, however, I doubt that I've got enough HDD space to rip and store 150 or CD's, even after compression ... I suppose I could always buy another HDD.

I *think* I would prefer the all-in-one approach but if it's better to use multiple pgms, then so be it.

What pgm(s) do you suggest/recommend?

Jajuk
http://jajuk.sourceforge.net/index.html#Features

Jajuk is a Java music organizer for all platforms. The main goal of this
project is to provide a fully-featured application to advanced users with
large or scattered music collections. Jajuk supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, AU,
AIFF, WAV and SPEEX audio formats.