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Andrew Hime wrote:

quoted 4 lines Ah, Adventures in Failure...

> Ah, Adventures in Failure... > > Can someone recommend a quick and easy (but good) CD ripper that produces > MP3s? 128/44, of course. And not AudioGrabber.

AudioGrabber isn't so bad as much as Audio Catalyst is, which uses the Xing Encoder. I made the mistake of using Audio Catalyst to rip and encode 70 tunes last weekend for a gig I decided (at the last minute) to dj using my laptop instead of records. Someone once warned me against xing products, but I was pressed for time and needed an all in one ripper/encoder...I didn't even get a chance to listen to the tunes after I'd mp3ed them. When I did my set, I was appalled how absolutely awful every song sounded! Serious clicks and pops, terrible aliasing garbage, the works. The only tune that didn't sound bad was an original track by my roommate that I'd mp3ed at home on my workstation using my favorite encoder, Audioactive Production Studio. I was amazed at how nice it sounded: No noise, lots of dynamic range and mad bass. So the moral of the story is, although it *is* possible that I had some silly setting wrong, fuck xing's encoder, it's shit IMHO. Also, I'm not 100%, but I think AAP uses the Fraunhofer codec so you might try using audiograbber calling ACM, mp3enc or l3enc as an external encoder. Although I haven't tried this yet, it's in my list of things to do, since I want to re-rip all those tunes and more. Mixing on the laptop was a kick and gave me a chance to play tons of unreleased and unavailable on vinyl tunes, which was nice. I'm looking forward to doing it again! hasta, brock

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quoted 2 lines So the moral of the story is, although it *is* possible that I had some

> So the moral of the story is, although it *is* possible that I had some > silly setting wrong, fuck xing's encoder, it's shit IMHO.

Not that anyone may care about this, but I just found out that the problem I was having might not have been with the Xing encoder. I was just looking on the Virtual TurnTables web page and it appears their program was having a 'pops and clicks' type problem playing back files created using Audio Catalyst. It has a link to a patch but unfortunately, the file isn't there or is mis-named. over and out, brock ps. To make this somewhat IDM related, the mysterious Shadly T Scott was spotted at a hollywood 'film industry' party this weekend spinning old techno, Ae and cylob tunes and later seen handing out a bunch of fresh off the press 'isophlux' T-shirts!

quoted 8 lines Not that anyone may care about this, but I just found out that the

> >Not that anyone may care about this, but I just found out that the >problem I was having might not have been with the Xing encoder. I was >just looking on the Virtual TurnTables web page and it appears their >program was having a 'pops and clicks' type problem playing back files >created using Audio Catalyst. It has a link to a patch but >unfortunately, the file isn't there or is mis-named. >

From what I understand, there are many players that dont decode Audio Catalyst encoded files well. I dont remember the name of the algorithm, but if the player doesnt support it directly, the sound is horrible.. If it does, its supposed to be one of the best quality methods available $.02 e Ernesto Ikerd, (817) 763-4795 Company Graphics, Dept 17, MZ-1156 Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Fort Worth, Texas

quoted 1 line Can someone recommend a quick and easy (but good) CD ripper >>that

>>Can someone recommend a quick and easy (but good) CD ripper >>that

produces

quoted 1 line MP3s? 128/44, of course. And not AudioGrabber.

>>MP3s? 128/44, of course. And not AudioGrabber.

how about audio catalyst x ? (X^P)