CD Ripping? Hoping for something better than EAC...

[joetama]

I've been using EAC for a long time, but I'm starting to hate it. Crashes all the time, takes forever, etc etc.

What else is there that is decent to rip CD to WAV or FLAC?

Right now I use EAC to go from CD to WAV, then reload the folder into EAC to convert to FLAC. I can't just go from CD to FLAC or it crashes.

[joetama]

Come on I need wisdom here... Anyone?

[bigtoyota479]

Fuck. All you could wait was 7 minutes? Jesus.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

[joetama]

My head hurts and EAC is pissing me off... Sorry...

Thanks for the link.

[bigtoyota479]

No problem mang. If that one doesn't work, let me know. I have some others, but personally I think MediaMonkey is the shit.

[bigtoyota479]

Oh, and I use Foobar2000 to keep that shit organized. MediaMonkey does that too, though, but I prefer Foobar's interface.

[joetama]

I use Foobar2000 to play and manually organize everything...

Foobar2000 is the shit as a player. Super low resources and good quick decoding plus lots of easy DSP plugins.

[bigtoyota479]

Well then, we just need to get you a good ripper and you're on your way. If MediaMonkey gives you issues, we may need to look at what's running on your PC while you do this. I've used EAC with no issues in the past, so it may be something else.

[joetama]

Media Monkey is kicking ass... Thanks... I just did 3 tracks converted to FLAC in what it took 1 to read to WAV with EAC.

[bigtoyota479]

Sweet! No problemo mang, and enjoy.

[joetama]

I already am LOL...

[Volpone]

If you're using foobar, add the FLAC codec (if you haven't already) and start ripping through foobar. If you want them tagged properly, add the freedb component (http://foosion.foobar2000.org/0.9/foo_freedb2-0.5.2a-20070125.zip).