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Best CD audio ripper/MP3 Encoder-Decoder!!!!
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Best CD audio ripper: Exact Audio Copy (www.exactaudiocopy.de)
This awesome FREEWARE ripper is the only program I've seen to offer secure extraction. EAC reads everything at least twice in order to detect any possible flaws in the DAE quality. Also EAC features best interface for using external encoders like LAME.EXE. EAC can even run command line encoders on the background while ripping - this improves the speed of encoding and makes using .EXE encoders work just as flexible and comfortable as .DLL codecs. Throw that Audiograbber to the recycle bin where it belongs and start ripping with guaranteed flawless quality.
Best MP3 Encoder: LAME (www.sulaco.org/mp3)
Another top quality freeware opensource product. The LAME features good speed and awesome sound quality. It's also the only encoder with tweaked and optimised Variable BitRate encoding routines, which one can use to achieve excellent size/quality ratio ( see www.r3mix.net for instructions). LAME outperforms the Fraunhofer codec in speed AND quality and is certainly the only encoder people should use. Best of all, LAME codec is constantly being developed and optimised for even higher speed and quality. I don't wan't see any of you encoding with that XING crap ever again, got it?
Best MP3 decoder: MAD (www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/)
Another best in the industry freeware opensource project. I have always been very sceptic to comments about sound quality among MP3 players. Years ago people were saying that NAD sounds better than anything else. When Sonique replaced NAD the authors boasted about the great quality of their decoder, the Audio Enlightment 4.xx. Nullsoft quickly responded with their own 'cool' MP3 decoder Nitrane… man were they wrong and it's been a laugh to see the recent tests about the accuracy of MP3 decoders. NAD features a very inaccurate decoder and Sonique isn't much better. Winamp's Nitrane is found to be extremely buggy and the original Fraunhofer based codec of older Winamp versions was actually much better! If you seek improvements to your MP3 playback then have a look at the MAD Mpeg Audio Decoder.
MAD also exist as a plug-in for Winamp and it supports output resolutions from 8 to 32 bits(of course you need something like a Soundscape(~$5000) sound card to use a +24bit output
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[This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 13 April 2001).]
Best CD audio ripper: Exact Audio Copy (www.exactaudiocopy.de)
This awesome FREEWARE ripper is the only program I've seen to offer secure extraction. EAC reads everything at least twice in order to detect any possible flaws in the DAE quality. Also EAC features best interface for using external encoders like LAME.EXE. EAC can even run command line encoders on the background while ripping - this improves the speed of encoding and makes using .EXE encoders work just as flexible and comfortable as .DLL codecs. Throw that Audiograbber to the recycle bin where it belongs and start ripping with guaranteed flawless quality.
Best MP3 Encoder: LAME (www.sulaco.org/mp3)
Another top quality freeware opensource product. The LAME features good speed and awesome sound quality. It's also the only encoder with tweaked and optimised Variable BitRate encoding routines, which one can use to achieve excellent size/quality ratio ( see www.r3mix.net for instructions). LAME outperforms the Fraunhofer codec in speed AND quality and is certainly the only encoder people should use. Best of all, LAME codec is constantly being developed and optimised for even higher speed and quality. I don't wan't see any of you encoding with that XING crap ever again, got it?
Best MP3 decoder: MAD (www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/)
Another best in the industry freeware opensource project. I have always been very sceptic to comments about sound quality among MP3 players. Years ago people were saying that NAD sounds better than anything else. When Sonique replaced NAD the authors boasted about the great quality of their decoder, the Audio Enlightment 4.xx. Nullsoft quickly responded with their own 'cool' MP3 decoder Nitrane… man were they wrong and it's been a laugh to see the recent tests about the accuracy of MP3 decoders. NAD features a very inaccurate decoder and Sonique isn't much better. Winamp's Nitrane is found to be extremely buggy and the original Fraunhofer based codec of older Winamp versions was actually much better! If you seek improvements to your MP3 playback then have a look at the MAD Mpeg Audio Decoder.
MAD also exist as a plug-in for Winamp and it supports output resolutions from 8 to 32 bits(of course you need something like a Soundscape(~$5000) sound card to use a +24bit output
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