Mp3 Ripper

Hello people!

Ive been using Musicmatch to rip my CDs for quite a while without any problems until recently. Lately the ripping speed of a cd has been x0.3 whereas before it used to be about 8.0, this means it takes me about 1/2 hour to rip a CD to MP3! Ive tried reinstalling but to no avail.

So Im on a quest to find a new ripper, any suggestions?

I would like it to use the same codec as Musicmatch (Frauhofer or however you speel it).

Thanks.

i use CDEX......... and it's a good one......
try to search it on the forun or on kazaa B)

This is really easy to use:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

Easy CD-DA Extractor is good also:

http://www.poikosoft.com

i use mp3 terminater..very easy & fast 2 use

im sharing it on kazaa along with serial so try finding it if ya like :)

Look here: http://www.klboard.ath.cx/bb/index.php?act...ST&f=28&t=22763 :)

AudioCrusher is also very good. try it
Get it Here

Thanks for all your responses.

Benno, I tried that guide ages ago but with no luck. Everytime I rip a CD with Exact Audio Copy its so slow and tells me it will take 38hours to do! I followed the instructions exactly, what am I doing wrong?

Also, EAC rips everything to WAV and not to MP3?!?!

EAC rips to WAV, as they all do. In most others, however, the compression process is transparant, so you
never see the .wav output. Anyway, EAC will, if you follow the directions in the article that Benno linked,
compress the traks automatically with the lame.exe after ripping each track.
The end result is very good, but if you burn a VBR mp3 file to a CD, some players may not be able to read
them correctly, and it will sound like it's skipping.

go with CDex fast and free. Reliable as possible. I have a MP3 player and i use CDex to Rip and then put them into eagson! to do the ID3 Tags etc.

I use EAC (with lame output) as said in the pinned method.
Sometimes EAC wont read my cd's, then i use my second app,
and that is Steinberg's WaveLab 4, can be found in the market ;) (kazaa)
Wavelab uses Lame too but dont have the option to
get tags from the net. And filenames are "Track--.mp3" :( , otherwise good quality but
requires too much typing.
I have used WinMediaPlyer once to make a mp3, just once, that was all it needed. :lol:
Now i use MediaPlayer sometimes to check cd info, pics, tags etc.
Cheers:
-GS-

Thanks for all the help guys! Ive finally got EAC ripping and converting at a decent speed. Everything seems fine but I'm not entirelt sure I want to be using VBR anymore after one of the posts in this topic suggested that some CD players may have trouble reading them.

Anyone know how I can get EAC to encode at a constant bit rate? Ive been through the menus but can't find it anywhere!

Thanks for the help guys.