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  • February 29, 2012 at 1:49 pm #15920
    VinnyBlanc
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    +1

    Rip CDs to 320kbps in iTunes
    For vinyl you can pick up a USB Turntable fairly cheap and record right to your computer.

    Either way, it is a very time sensitive project as you are constantly swapping records/cds…
    (Not to mention if you aren’t ripping the full CD and only selecting certain tracks)

    February 29, 2012 at 1:58 pm #15921
    Gerd Bauersfeld
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    Well, I ripped my CD collection on a Windows-System with EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) the most accurate CD Ripper available. I ripped to mp3 320kbs, but I will rip my favourites again directly to flac-Format.
    There a lot of tutorials out there how to get the best results with EAC (I recommend http://blowfish.be/eac/Rip/rip1.html and additional this http://blowfish.be/eac/Lossy/lossy.html if you want to rip to mp3 or ogg, and want the best results.)

    March 1, 2012 at 6:27 am #15954
    Pär Hessler
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    I do it this way (Mac):
    1 Rip in Toast to AIFF
    2 Run them in Platinum Notes (that converts them to MP3 320kbps CBR)
    3 Run them in MIK
    4 Tag them in Jaikoz
    And the result is very good IMO

    March 1, 2012 at 8:25 pm #15986
    Papa Bear
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    DJ Hessler, post: 16029, member: 537 wrote: I do it this way (Mac):
    1 Rip in Toast to AIFF
    2 Run them in Platinum Notes (that converts them to MP3 320kbps CBR)
    3 Run them in MIK
    4 Tag them in Jaikoz
    And the result is very good IMO

    Jeez, I’d go nuts having to use 4 (!) programmes till done.
    I rip ’em with Easy CDDA Extractor, a bit dusted but never had any complaints about it.
    And do the tagging stuff in MediaMonkey, though I am currently on the lookout for a better option (no, iTunes is definitely a no-go. And the No is so fat, you could park the whole 7th fleet in it 😀 )

    March 2, 2012 at 5:33 am #16009
    Pär Hessler
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    Papa Bear:
    As we say in sweden “There is no shortcuts to the perfect sound!”
    That is why I do it that way with 4 different programs doing what they should do the best way possible 🙂

    March 5, 2012 at 6:53 pm #16164
    D-Jam
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    For CDs I usually just rip them using dbPowerAMP Converter. Been using it for years.

    For vinyl I’ll hook up a 1200 with a Shure Whitelabel and record the track into my computer onto Sound Forge or Audacity. I’ll then normalize and “Wave Hammer” (Compress) to get things fuller in sound.

    I sometimes will run them through Platinum Notes, but often I find the sound is where I want it without it. From there I’ll leave a copy in Wav form for my archives (you never know one day when a new file format will take over) and make 320Kbps MP3s for me to use.

    July 1, 2012 at 1:51 pm #1006997
    Tommy Hear Me
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    For Vinyl run for your life.

    Firstly find out from others how they did it. Use this site and others for information

    My equipment and process i used for Vinyl:

    Lot of spare time 🙂
    1. Direct Drives Technics
    2. New needles
    3. Good Mixer (Digitladjtips has a great section on setting up the mixer volume levels etc. thanks :))
    4. Amplifier ( this will ensure that both left and right channels are even)
    5. Audacity or similar for recording
    6. USB Soundcard into computer
    7. Discogs.com for all that great tags you gonna put into your songs.
    8. Platinum Notes or Mp3Gain for improving volume loudnes
    9. TheGodFather for renaming lots of songs at once and getting rid of the pn in pn.mp3 or similar program

    Computer needs fast CPUs for instance if your recoding and browsing the internet you may find that the recording has some jumps in it because the CPU was not fast enough to do both tasks i.e. browsing and recording.

    Save the Songs in WAV and MP3 fill in tags as i go.

    For every song you record in vinyl get the mixer setting correct first time all songs have different levels of volume.

    Clean the vinyl

    think of it as a production line and along that line keep checking the process.

    I have recorded 6000 + songs and still not finished and every now and then i come across a song that did not record correctly.

    Any songs that you have ripped, mix them with other Mp3 songs bought from the internet or ripped from CD, when mixing the ripped vinyl look out for beats drifting out of sync. This may happen if you ripped your Vinyl using Belt Drives.

    July 2, 2012 at 5:23 am #1007036
    Steelo
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    I would say not to rip CDs using itunes. The sound quality is pretty average compared to a million other pieces of software (many of them freeware). I use one that I think is called Max or something like that. Its freeware and lets you pick which encoder you want to use. The latest version of the LAME encoder is solid for sound quality. I ripped the same cd using this and then itunes, both at 320kbps and I found I could hear the difference.

    July 2, 2012 at 7:35 am #1007045
    Terry_42
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    I just use iTunes for CDs and have set it to 320kb AAC. I prefer AAC as I cannot really hear any difference in sound quality from the CD to a 192k/256k AAC and just go higher up to be save.
    However I prefer AAC to mp3 as the sound in music with high dynamics I tend to hear a little “compression” in mp3 and to my hearing AAC doesn’t compress that much.

    For Vinyl I have a FW soundcard and use AudioHijack Pro and record directly to 320k AAC. Sometimes I record to WAV and convert to AAC in iTunes if it is a tricky vinyl. If the vinyl was tricky and I need to do some editing I load it up into Logic.

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