dane, you can customize by clicking on the configure button. and you can choose mor options that way
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:38 AM Subject: Easy CD DA Extractor, my ipinion for what its worth > Hi folks! > Ok, I registered Easy CD DA Extractor today and I've been playing > with it for much of the day so thought it time I offered some > comparisons with the ripping software I've been using which has been > EAC (Exact Audio Copy) and Max (on the Mac and my LINUX system). > First and foremost, there is no doubt whatever that Easy CD DA > Extractor has come one hell of a long and mighty way since I last > tried it some years ago however it still falls short in several areas > if accuracy in ripping from CD'S is what you're after and considering > that Exact Audio Copy and Max are "freeware" applications and Easy CD > DA Extractor isn't then this in my view is some cause for concern. > Where the accuracy shortfall occurs is in the fact (it seems) that > you cannot set the read and write offsets for your drive, that's very > important for CD Ripping and CD burning, now please someone correct > me if I'm wrong, I'd in fact relish being wrong because I cannot > believe that such a good product as Easy CD DA Extractor wouldn't > have this feature. So with that shortcoming out of the way I looked > at the various file formats on offer for output. > Yep, no doubt again, quite a range but unless I'm not looking > thoroughly enough the formats it seems to me aren't customisable. For > example let's take MP3 layer 3, all you get when selecting the > options are 128K, 256K, 9 levels of VBR etc and that's it. Again, > unless I'm missing something then this is a very poor show. So you > pick 128K for example, what quality mode is used here for the > encoder? Is it stereo, mono or joint stereo the encoder will be > encoding in? What sample rate is going to be used? All this > information seems to be determined for you and (whilst most will be > content to leave things at that) I'm not because I find optimizing > your MP3 encoder for various situations can save you a whole heap of > space and a whole heap of trouble whilst not compremising on good > audio quality. Further to this when you select one of the VBR modes > offered, which VBR method will the encoder use, the "old" or the > "new" method? The "new" method is indeed faster but the "old" method > (whilst slower) is of a far better quality and there are other VBR > settings which should be available which don't seem to be, 2 quality > settings for example whereas Easy CD DA Extractor only allows the > access to one. > Now to the "Format Conversion" section, again very nicely laid out > but one annoyance here and perhaps this will be fixed in later > versions. One would think for instance that if you had say a Wave and > Cue pair of files (as generated by many rippers including EAC, Max > Ripper and even Easy CD DA Extractor itself), you should therefore be > able to open the cue file which would therefore in tern open the > associated Wave file and you should be able to convert the content to > MP3 tracks or whatever, not so it seems which is a crying shame. > So there you have it, some of my thoughts on Easy CD DA Extractor but > its still worth supporting at $49.00. > > > -------------------------------- > > Join the fight against spam! Have your ISP enable client/server > authentication. > > -------------------------------- > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
