Um....do you want to give us any more info aside from "it's not"? Check any internet audio forum, including Hydrogen Audio. When it comes to encoding MP3s, everyone chooses LAME.
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Best CD-Ripping App on the MBP?
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Um....do you want to give us any more info aside from "it's not"? Check any internet audio forum, including Hydrogen Audio. When it comes to encoding MP3s, everyone chooses LAME.
That is simply NOT true, unless you buy music from the iTunes Store, but then you aren't ripping the songs. The only problem with AAC is that Creative etc. don't support AAC on their MP3 players, though the Zune does.
Out of the Box AAC support will be on the rise as MPEG 4 and its variants take over the world. Just like MP3 was part of the earlier MPEG-1 standards, AAC is part of the most recent standards.
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for encoding MP3s yes, LAME is the best, but that doesn't mean other codecs aren't superior when it comes to bit rate/size/quality ratios. AAC is superior in that.
I think some little company in Cupertino wrote an application to do exactly that. Can't remember the name of the company... It was some fruitt name, maybe Apple? And what was the name of the software... something with an e? or an i? iMusic? No, it was iTunes. Yes, iTunes is the name. Use that.
Oh my god, not again. Could you please post here where you got this bit of wisdom from, so that we can all jump straight in their faces to make them stop making such idiotic claims?
No music that you rip from CDs into iTunes, no matter what format, will ever have any form of copy protection on it.
If you read closely, that's what I said before. For encoding MP3's, not encoding audio or codecs in general, I was only concerned with MP3s.
Um....did you read the rest of the thread? If you did, you'd realize that this reply isn't as clever as you think it is, as audiophiles generally don't like iTunes as a ripper and encoder. Oh, and I believe it was mentioned several times now that I didn't want to use iTunes because I wanted something along the lines of CD Paranoia. iTunes doesn't even come close to exact audio copy.
I have been told that CDParanoia works well but if the drive it is being used with has cache, it will have problems finding errors. (Sadly, most drives today do have cache.)
I would also be suspect of running EAC in emulation. Since access to the optical drive is abstracted through a virtual machine and is not raw access, it might not get enough information from the drive to notice problems.
I would also be suspect of running EAC in emulation. Since access to the optical drive is abstracted through a virtual machine and is not raw access, it might not get enough information from the drive to notice problems.