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“Tomorrow we’ll look at a program that’s better for many people – especially those reeling in horror at the thought of using an Apple product.” There’s simply nothing like a ripped library to enjoy music from. Whatever you do, ripping a library is a bit of work, but the work’s well worth the effort. But, the program’s cheap and perhaps worth a shot. It’s been too many years since I’ve done the comparisons and so I can’t give you my honest opinion. And EAC has its devotees, the lot of them swearing the sound is so much better than anything else. It’s a very slow process–sometimes maddeningly slow–checking and rechecking the data on the CD to make certain it’s perfect. The technology is similar to what we use in the PWT memory player. But let’s consider EAC for a moment.Įxact Audio Copy is an interesting program for ripping. JRiver, Media Monkey, Foobar, (which uses dBpoweramp), or EAC, but they all have their quirks and of the lot, I prefer dBpoweramp.

#Rip cd to itunes mac#

Had I not been using DirectStream and my Mac server or the Bridge, I would wholeheartedly recommend dBpoweramp over iTunes for ripping because of its better sound (at the time). dBpower amp takes a bit more effort than does iTunes. Over time, I have moved back to good old iTunes for ripping for two reasons: recent developments in DACs and players have rendered the differences I heard almost indistinguishable. No question, the dBpoweramp rip sounded noticeably better than the iTunes rip. We ripped a track on dBpoweramp and another on iTunes. I remember some years ago when we did some A/B testing between rips. They’ve worked hard at getting the program perfected, the sound just right and frankly, the metadata that comes out of dBpoweramp is consistently better than what comes out of iTunes.

dBpoweramp claims to have 30 million downloads, is a private company run by a fellow with the handle Spoon. This program is a rebel and perhaps it reminds me of us a little bit. To be honest, I haven’t a great deal of recent experience with the program – I’ve used it and benefited by it – find the interface klunkier than iTunes – but honestly, what appeals to me about dBpoweramp is the honesty of the program and the people behind it. The program is dBpoweramp and for $39, you can get great results.

#Rip cd to itunes windows#

Today I want to cover another program that is not as widely known, but works on both Windows and Mac platforms and does a great job. It’s free, it finds the metadata nicely, it sounds good and has a ton of support. In yesterday’s post I covered the cheapest and easiest way to rip CDs to a hard drive.