Does anyone know a good cd-ripper?

[viddy]

Originally Posted by Leon

The Creative Cd-ripper that came with my mp3-player kinda sucks. You get all kinds of small glitches and clicks. ARGH!
Does anyone have a ripper that's flawless?

This likely to happen in every bit of software you use to rip an audio CD, unless you change the speed at which you rip a CD. If you are able to change this speed, for the troubled discs, set it to rip a CD at 1x. This fixes errors much of the time because it is reading the CD more carefully at a slower speed. This goes for burning CDs as well; if you want really accurate CD burns, write at the slowest speed you can tolerate.

But I do agree, that not every piece of software rips a CD with the same quality. So try a few different ones.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by viddy

But I do agree, that not every piece of software rips a CD with the same quality. So try a few different ones.

Software from Creative is notoriously buggy, sluggish, bloated and generally shite tho. But youre right with the ripping at lower speeds thing. My CD-RW drive rips better than my DVD-RW and rips those protected CDs with ease. Avoiding all Creative hardware and software will save you a lot of bother though.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by stimpee

Software from Creative is notoriously buggy, sluggish, bloated and generally shite tho. But youre right with the ripping at lower speeds thing. My CD-RW drive rips better than my DVD-RW and rips those protected CDs with ease. Avoiding all Creative hardware and software will save you a lot of bother though.

Oh be quiet!

Grrr!



(although I get all mine for free, so it would be churlish to complain)

[viddy]

Originally Posted by stimpee

Software from Creative is notoriously buggy, sluggish, bloated and generally shite tho. But youre right with the ripping at lower speeds thing. My CD-RW drive rips better than my DVD-RW and rips those protected CDs with ease. Avoiding all Creative hardware and software will save you a lot of bother though.

Just to share my opinion and defend Creative; I've had a Creative Sound Blaster Extigy for a little over 3 years and it's always worked perfectly as it should. Besides the reciever I use to power my sound system, the Extigy has been at the heart of my home studio. It is the hub for all of my audio ins and outs and has worked great doing so. My MBox, television, and Ipod are connected to it, and the 6 channel outputs allow me to mix music and film projects in 5.1 surround sound (using Acid Pro). In my opinion not everything Creative is crap.