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PiD 13 Jul 2007 15:33:55 3,564 posts
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ecureuil wrote:
Winamp is the best because of Milkdrop. Until it's available on other media players, I will never move from Winamp.

You can use milkdrop with media monkey ifaik

JayPee 13 Jul 2007 15:44:16 1,490 posts
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Yeah, I'm kinda uncertain about what encoding iTunes doesn't support these days.

I thought about encoding some of the stuff I have on tape (spoken books, radio shows etc.) and then I thought "what about the time it would take, what about naming everything, putting all the track splits in etc." and decided against it.

I have had to re-encode due to bad external HDDs, gah what an arse. If I were to do it all over again though, I would proably pick AAC at a bitrate over 200.

DaM 13 Jul 2007 15:54:21 17,729 posts
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smoothpete wrote:
My mate has a fuckton of vinyl, he's looking into how to rip it all at the moment. If you think of any good ideas let me know, he's looking at doing it all manually in real time

I was looking at USB turntables....
I can't see anyway of doing it non-real time. Unless you can play them at 66rpm with no quality issues!

I don't have any moral qualms about downloading vinyl I already own, just haven't a clue where to look....I'll consult the office pirate.

Arrrghh, Jim lad, come over here a minute....

JayPee 13 Jul 2007 16:29:34 1,490 posts
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Speed of the CD drive is the limiting factor.

If the dual core could pull in the data at raw rate and encode it, it would do a whole CD in seconds.

I found this out to my disspointment when I got a spanking new dual core MacBook that encoded just as fast as my old G4 iMac

Edited by JayPee at 16:30:07 13-07-2007

Pooley 14 Jul 2007 02:44:09 1,504 posts
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@ecureuil, ecosse, jaypee

I was looking for a lossless encoder, but Apple only support their own one, which might cause problems in the future if I need to use a device which didn't support this.

So I looked at using FLAC, with Winamp. Hopefully FLAC has a bit more general support than Apple lossless.

deem 14 Jul 2007 02:54:27 31,667 posts
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Deleted user 14 July 2007 13:04:55

It is done - 23.6Gb.

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Deleted user 14 July 2007 13:20:38

Am I the only one dull enough to have actually quite enjoyed ripping my CD collection? It reintroduced me to a load of CD's I hadn't listened to in years, or ones that I'd bought and barely listened to. Although admittedly I started doing it a couple of months before I had an iPod and just did a few CD's a night.

Will probably re-rip the lot again in a lossless format when I get my next desktop and have enough storage for it. Last time I counted I had nearly five hundred album's worth, so best leave myself a good six months free for that little project...

xandoodle 14 Jul 2007 14:58:10 475 posts
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generica wrote:
You can't play lossless on an 'MP3' player. It's in the name.

Doesn't the iPod support 'Apple Lossless'?

Popzeus 14 Jul 2007 18:12:56 8,425 posts
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Also expect to buy a new CD drive once you've finished - ripping my collection completely banjaxed mine.