CD burning / ripping software?

Ok, so I have a new pc and am just wondering what CD burning / ripping software people out there like to use. I've been using Musicmatch for 4 or 5 years now but am curious if there are other, better alternatives.

Originally posted by brennser:
Ok, so I have a new pc and am just wondering what CD burning / ripping software people out there like to use. I've been using Musicmatch for 4 or 5 years now but am curious if there are other, better alternatives.

itunes for the pc

I hate hate hate music match. I use Itunes now, but before that came out for pc I used a program called dBPowerAMP Music Converter. Get it here .

chaz, I have a friend who has an ipod and uses musicmatch on his p.c. He doesn't know what changing to iTunes might offer. Can you explain to me the benefits?

itunes is much easier to manage than Musicmatch, and the sound quality is far superior. It's also freeware.

itunes also lets you listen to the radio…

Woxy
Virgin
Kexp

are all there.

Plus it works really well with the ipod…….

How is the sound quality better? And is there more/better functionality? I've heard the "easier to manage" phrase, but how is Musicmatch hard to manage?

(I'm not arguing or disbelieving – looking for the reasoning to pass on).

Plus it works really well with the ipod…….

but does it work with other mp3 players….sacrilege I know markie

I use Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer to mix the tunes (I can't thank Kosmo enough for this software tip!!!). It allows me to fade tracks, adjust volumes and play tidbits in the middle of songs.

And Roxio Easy CD Creator to burn the mixes, although Acoustica makes burning software that plugs into the mixer, I've never bought it because I have great success with Roxio. Roxio makes the burning software that most Media Libraries use, including Napster and WIndows Media Player. I'm not sure about Real Audio or MusicMatch though. Roxio allows me to track at once as well, which is required when fading between tunes. They also have a Disc copier that I use when copying one CD to another.

If I'm just copying a CD track for track out of my digital library I use Windows Media player 9.0 because it's simple.

Originally posted by brennser:

Plus it works really well with the ipod…….

but does it work with other mp3 players

there are other Mp3 players?

there are many that say that
Exact Audio Copy is the only way to go for PCs for ripping. Besure to use the LAME encoder for creating MP3.

Originally posted by vansmack:
It allows me to fade tracks, adjust volumes

itunes lets you fade tracks and automatically adjusts the volume, if you wish.

Originally posted by mark e smith:

Originally posted by brennser:

Plus it works really well with the ipod…….

but does it work with other mp3 players

there are other Mp3 players?

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Originally posted by mark e smith:

Originally posted by vansmack:
It allows me to fade tracks, adjust volumes

itunes lets you fade tracks and automatically adjusts the volume, if you wish.

for the purposes of burning? acoustica is like jam for osx, it allows you to create a sequence in order to burn cds. i use to create seamless mixes. i'd being using the acoustica sw but all off my windoze boxes are too old to take full advantage of it. jam is a mighty fine piece of sw though…

Originally posted by brennser:
Ok, so I have a new pc and am just wondering what CD burning / ripping software people out there like to use. I've been using Musicmatch for 4 or 5 years now but am curious if there are other, better alternatives.

Two words: Golden Hawk. Everything else is a toy.

looking for an appropriate smilie response, and all I can find is that twat, Mankie.


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Originally posted by Bagster:
chaz, I have a friend who has an ipod and uses musicmatch on his p.c. He doesn't know what changing to iTunes might offer. Can you explain to me the benefits?

Pretty much ditto what most folks have said, although I never really used music match for my ipod. I've always hated it so becuase it was just so un-intuitive and bloated. Before itunes came along i used ephpod which was also quite good, but i couldn't use it to rip tracks.

One benefit that I don't think anyone's mentioned of itunes over mm is aac support. With itunes you can rip tracks into aac files which is supposedly better compression resulting in higher quality files.

Mostly though itunes is just so easy to use and mm always seemed to be a struggle for me to figure out. After all, itunes was written with the ipod in mind and mm is just a generic player/organizer with and ipod plug-in.

my main reasons to switch would be
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
looking for an appropriate smilie response, and all I can find is that twat, Mankie.


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If yer bored Mankie, you can dream about your new laptop .

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
for the purposes of burning?

You hit it right on the head Kosmo.

Brennser asked about burning and ripping software and everybody posted about what software they use to listen to digital music and transfer files to and from their Ipods.

Brennser, if you just want to put 80 minutes of music on a CD use what you're comfortable with because the features of each are pretty much the same.

Look for the ability to track-at-once to take the two second gap out between songs (not available on all) and which software interface you're most familiar with.

For ripping, decide on file type first then choose the appropriate software. If you want aac use Itunes, if you want WMA use Windows Media Player 9.0, if you want MP3, use MusicMatch or RealOne Jukebox or the CD Ripppers suggested by other users. Just make sure that your devices support the file type you choose.

Lastly, if you're bored with just picking 80 minutes of music and putting that on a CD, try your hand at mixing with Acoustica and you'll never look back at making random mixes without a lot of thought between songs and looking for that perfect fade.

Originally posted by vansmack:
if you want MP3, use MusicMatch or RealOne Jukebox

I use itunes and rip o MP3s, not AAC. Mp3s are good because they are compatible with with just about everyone and everything else.

the beauty of itunes/ipod/istore is that it is a well worked out integrated solution. It can Rip and burn and so much more.