I've used CDex and Windows Media Player to rip CD's. The file format you'll use depends on what you mean by best sound and best format. If you don't care about the size of the file or how long it'll take to rip or how long it'll take to copy to a MP3 player and you have the ears and the sound equipment to hear the difference then you would want to go with a lossless format like WAV or FLAC. There's also a lossless form of WMA, and I would assume there's a lossless form of AAC as well. BTW, you'd also want to make sure your MP3 player will support these formats.
If you're willing to give up some quality for size and portability then you'd want to consider a lossy format like OGG, MP3, WMA, AAC and so on. Again, you'll need to figure out what formats your MP3 players will support. MP3's are ubiquitous but may not give you the sound quality you want or the level of compression you're looking for. CDex has an insane setting when ripping and this will give you the best quality with a lossy format assuming again you don't care about the size of the file and you'll be able to hear the difference. I'm not sure exactly how all other CD rippers work, but there's usually a setting or preferences option somewhere with a slider that will let you set the bit rate and other options that will effect sound quality. I'm not an audiophile, and my ears aren't good enough to hear the subtle differences in these file formats, so I usually just stick with MP3's. this also gives me the added benefit that they can be played anywhere.I also don't use the 320 bit rate any more, but I'm not sure exactly what I use these days. I'd suggest trying a few options to see what you like and then trading that off against the size of the files and the MP3 player you'll be using. If I were an audiophile and I didn't care about time or disk space, I'd do something like rip all of my CD's in FLAC and then convert them to OGG as I copied them out to my MP3 player. I could then twiddle with the bit rate to get the quality of music and the number of files I wanted on my MP3 player. On 16/02/12 13:05, Casey wrote: > hi I am not that technical when it comes to setting up a program for > ripping CD so what I would like is. > I good program for ripping tracks off of a CD if I should ever have to. > But I would like to get the best sound out of what I would rip as I can. > Would Cd Ex be good for that? > And if so what is and where can you go to get the latest verison? > Also what is the best format to extract tracks from a audio disk in to? > What about ripping in to OGG. > What would be the best setting to use for that file if you were wanting > to rip tracks to that file formatt? > > -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
