From Brock Suter Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 06:10
From Brock Suter Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 06:10
Andrew Hime wrote: > Ah, Adventures in Failure... > > Can someone recommend a quick and easy (but good) CD ripper that produces > MP3s? 128/44, of course. And not AudioGrabber. AudioGrabber isn't so bad as much as Audio Catalyst is, which uses the Xing Encoder. I made the mistake of using Audio Catalyst to rip and encode 70 tunes last weekend for a gig I decided (at the last minute) to dj using my laptop instead of records. Someone once warned me against xing products, but I was pressed for time and needed an all in one ripper/encoder...I didn't even get a chance to listen to the tunes after I'd mp3ed them. When I did my set, I was appalled how absolutely awful every song sounded! Serious clicks and pops, terrible aliasing garbage, the works. The only tune that didn't sound bad was an original track by my roommate that I'd mp3ed at home on my workstation using my favorite encoder, Audioactive Production Studio. I was amazed at how nice it sounded: No noise, lots of dynamic range and mad bass. So the moral of the story is, although it *is* possible that I had some silly setting wrong, fuck xing's encoder, it's shit IMHO. Also, I'm not 100%, but I think AAP uses the Fraunhofer codec so you might try using audiograbber calling ACM, mp3enc or l3enc as an external encoder. Although I haven't tried this yet, it's in my list of things to do, since I want to re-rip all those tunes and more. Mixing on the laptop was a kick and gave me a chance to play tons of unreleased and unavailable on vinyl tunes, which was nice. I'm looking forward to doing it again! hasta, brock