Guide Ripping perfect quality mp3s from your Audio Cds

PART - 1
Download Exact Audio copy from www.exactaudiocopy.de

Get the version EAC095b2.zip from down the list

Downloading this zip file, extract the contents to a directory like C:\Program Files:\EAC
Download the executable file of LAME from this site
http://audio.ciara.us/rarewares/lame-3.90.3.zip
The file lame.exe from this zipped file is to be put into the main EAC directory, in this case, C:\Program files:\EAC\lame.exe

Open EAC, it will detect the number of cd/DVD roms in your system and give options accordingly, always select "expert user" making full use

of the options when it asks you in the beginning.

After that go to EAC -> EAC options , according to the picture shown below


Extraction - Extraction and compression priority - high ,Error recovery quailty - high

skip general, tools , normalize
go to filename - preferably keep %N - %T in the naming scheme space.
skip catalog, directories, write, interface

Part 2
Drive options

shown in the picture below


Extraction method - > Secure mode - deselect "drive caches audio data", select drive is capable of retrieving c2 Error information

skip the drive tab, go to offset/speed - select "Actual" in speed selection, also select "allow speed reduction during extraction"

go to gap detection - in the gap/index retrieval method , select Detection mehod C
Detection accuracy - Secure
Part 3

Now, go to compression option
skip the waveform tab,
go to the External compression tab, check external program for compression

Parameter passing scheme should select "LAME mp3 encoder" from the list given

Program, including path used for compression, should be the Lame.exe file that you just put in the C:\Program Files\EAC\lame.exe

Select the option "variable bit rate 128 kbps " from down the bit rate list option in the manner shown in the picture

in the Tab "additional command line options"

Put in this command
FOR VBR FILE OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY (128-320 KBPS)

-b 128 -m j -h -V 0 -B 320 -q 0

Go to the offset tab, select "write Freedb ID into ID3 tag comment field", and also "use LAME command line encoder/decoder for decoding mp3

files"

Go to the ID3 tag tab, and select the first two options, namely "use ID3V1.1 tags...." and the second "additionally write ID3V2 tags,using.."

and in the tab, "construction of filenames from ID3 Tags"

%N - %T

Part 4

After doing this, if you have an original Audio Cd, you should be able to tag the files according to their database enty in FreeDB, for this

you need to go to freedb options from the EAC tab selection in the main menu, as shown in the figure

In the main freedb screen, type in any junk e-mail address in the e-mail address and then press OK.


from the picture shown below get the tags from the main menu as shown.


Your files should be now tagged.

After your files are tagged, you can now proceed to rip these files into mp3s with perfect ripping quality and high quailty encoding.

select the "mp3" icon shown in the picture

and rip those files in the directory you wish to, and happy ripping :)
 
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Musicmatch uses FHG mp3 encoder, which also being good, not as good and flexible as LAME, also Musicmatch doesnt let you rip your Audio cds with 100% accuracy, and no loss in the quality while ripping. Exact Audio copy is considered to be holy for most audiophiles :)
 
excellent, thread rated.. cant give ya reps till i spread some around :(

usually use wmp
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to rip songs in lossless quality .. will try this now
 
EAC is the standard used for ripping Mp3's.
Its encodes vary on the encoder used for Encoding.

It gives us flexibility to use ne encoder thats why EAC is popular.
Also EAC supports direct ripping to many other formats like FLAC,AAC,MonkeyAudio etc...

Nice Tuts there Amol.
 
Found this guide for archiving music.

This brief guide, while well suited to the beginner, is as good as it gets. You'll use the best software, set it up properly, and then be able to transfer your CD collection to your PC or laptop - giving you an unbeatable audiophile jukebox in a reasonable amount of storage space (100 MB for a typical album). With the no compromise High Quality approach you won't have to worry about whether or not your songs will swoosh, warble and rumble. This isn't 128k mp3, it's HiFi. Welcome to transparent compressed audio !
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http://www.high-quality.ch.vu/
 
the word 'lossless' seems to be being tossed around rather carelessly. LAME, as good as it is (the only thing i use to encode with) is still based on mp3 which is essentially a lossy format. If you want real lossless compression turn to something like Monkey Audio.

And for 'highest quality' with lame, just stick to the extreme preset.
'--alt-preset extreme - %d'
 
I never said, this was lossless, i just said it were high quality mp3s which most people use for listening purpose. Lossless is a different ball game and not everyone's cup of tea, since it takes up too much space, and most gamers/ non audiophiles dont care about lossless anyway.
 
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