Best Software to Rip WAV files?

Dear Patrick, I understand your point.

Long time no converse! Too long!

But would it be a correct implementation of the old Red Book CD standard to do this? To have hidden tracks or pre-gaps.

On classical issues at least the conventional standard is followed except with the exception of a few very long discs. These can overun the 72 minute original standard and though I believe this was extended to 79 minutes 59 seconds. I used to have a CD that ran just a few seconds over 80 minutes.

I do understand the problem though as it might be for people who own CDs that contain hidden tracks [or whatever is the correct technical name]. Then the solutions for copying them to Hard Drive must get much more complex, and quite possibly insoluble on iTunes for all that I know. So yes. The issue would spoil iTunes for me if it were a problem on the discs [about 520 of them] that I have ripped in ALAC.

Nice to exchange views again. ATB from George

George,

You as well! As always you are a true class act. I feel bad for beating it out of you. What's the point of doing it? Without even reprimanding me you make me see your genius and the error of my ways.

I will leave this issue alone. We all know the advantages and possible shortcomings of all of the options. I apologize for beleaguering the point so tiresomely. "Whatever floats your boat", my father always said.

Thanks for putting up with my shit.

In other news....... I have been uncharacteristically absent from the forum of late. Are you running headphone rig still? Or back to the 72hi140?

take care,
p

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Originally posted by pcstockton:
George,

Would you feel differently if that ambient crowd noise, or thunderous applause for the conductors arrival on the podium, was a pregap track and omitted from your rip?

What if there was actual music contained in the pretrack gap. Would that move you away from iTunes ripping? just curious.

-patrick

Patrick,

I reckon George might be able to live without the 6/44100th of a second of applause/silence.

Dear Patrick,

I am posting less as well, and so my patience is improving to where it used to be!

I sold the 140/hi/72, and the cables, and have now placed the speakers as well, so it headphones, and I seem to have adapted in the 12 months since I started using them regularly.

In fact since having iTunes [in September] my listening has improved in one significant aspect. Because finding the desired music is simply a matter of typing in a suitable search word, it is less tempting to listen to the pile of music near the player! The result is that I am listening more as well!

Of course loudspeaker replay is nice, but neither neighbour-friendly nor compact!

ATB from George

George,

You are now perfectly primed for a Uniqute with a pair of Kans! That is basically a gigantic set of headphones.

I iamgaine you are still using the Lavry as a DAC and headphone amp? Or are you using your soundcard? If the latter, what are you using?

Sorry for the thread jack! To answer the OP's questions:
The Best software to rip anything?
- EAC
- XLD
- iTunes
- HDX
- dbPoweramp
- MM
- even Foobar

All have their own unique shortcomings and benefits. Try one or two of them and see what you think! If your ripper allows for minor set-up tweaks such as error correction, gap detection, offset correction, secure mode, give them a shot!

-p

Dear Patrick,

Just a soundcard, and it is not bad at all. "Creative" I think and about seven years old.

It is not cripplingly less fine than the Lavry actually, but it seems to that the diference between the good, the better, and the great in digital replay is not so large as when considering analogue. The sound card is merely good, but good enough if you see what I mean!

Of course there is also terrible digital playback ...

The Lavry financed the upgrading of the PC to make it my replay machine and so on.

ATB from George

Which iTunes arrangement has been added today a little USB DAC from China which cost a grand total of £72 including postage.

It bypasses the PC soundcard, and is clearly running at some PC standard, because my bog standard Windows-XP fired PC recognised it and immediately disabled the internal sound card. To restore the soundcard requires the USB to be "safely" disconnected, followed by a PC reboot.

The little machine is an effective and sonically muscular headphone amp, and can also function as a completely analogue amp having a stereo RCA [cynch] pair of inputs, switable by selecting digital or analogue on the input selector. Across the volume control potentiometer is a large headphone jack, and the pairing of it and the Sennheiser HD 415 is a great success.

The digital inputs are USB, and spidf via Co-ax [single] cynch, and Optical Toslink.

It also has a fixed line level out via stereo pair of cynch sockets.

So how does this plebian little machine work?

Marvelous straight out of the box, and runs stone cold. After four hours running I would love to see the reactions of a completely blind listen from a Hifi enthusiast!

Is it better than the sound card? Yes! It chief gain is the incisiveness I associated with the Lavry but some what missing from the Creative soundcard. Very pleasing. Runs on a 12 Volt wall-wart.

ATB from George

wonderful George!

What is it?

It is from a company called Muse Audio. Took a punt on eBay and found a nice little product that is phenomenal value considering that it works so far above its price point.

And if it got lost in the post or was no good it was certainly no serious risk to take a punt on!

But it has come up smelling of roses!

ATB from George