Best MP3 ripper for Mac?

[coops]

If you're going to the trouble of ripping ALL your music library, take the time to do it right the first time (You won't want to go through the hassle again...)

Get XLD.
Rip to FLAC with Album art and tags.

(test one disc or two first to make sure you like the finenameing format it gives you and set it up how you prefer)

FLAC is open source and very, very widely supported. You could use the Apple lossless...


After you've done all that, you can get XLD to rip it all to mp3 in one go (i use the VBR at highest quality).

The mp3's go on my laptop and ipod in the car - the flac goes on the timecapsule at home and streams to the home hi-fi through a Sonos system.

 

[cheekypaul]

I'm looking to rip my existing CD collection to 320 kb mp3 but I hear that the iTunes encoder isn't that good for mp3's. Can anyone refute that claim? Is there a better ripper out there?

oh crap, this is an old post.

 

[ChrisA]

Hey, hey guys! Listen! Listen! Hey guys listen!

This guy is studying audio tech! Hey guys! We've got a real audio tech here! He knows everything! We should all listen to him!

Yes he is studying.
He is not yet done and was not yet got to the part of the class where they explain "metadata". The .WAV is useless becuae the file holds just the music and not other information like the titla or artist or the JPG of the album cover.

The best format to RIP is just to let iTunes rip to Apple losses codec. from there you can convert to anything you need to later.

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If you're going to the trouble of ripping ALL your music library, take the time to do it right the first time (You won't want to go through the hassle again...)

Get XLD.
Rip to FLAC with Album art and tags.

(test one disc or two first to make sure you like the finenameing format it gives you and set it up how you prefer)

FLAC is open source and very, very widely supported. You could use the Apple lossless...

That last suggestion is best. FLAC is ok but it takes up room on your disk and iTunes can't use it. Going to Apple Losses is no hared then going to FLAC and it can live inside your iTunes library and you can play it.

If you do FLAC you will just have to convert it all to something else if you want to hear it on an iPod.

 

[ScottishCaptain]

Why does anyone bother with FLAC on OS X?

FLAC is what you use if you're on Windows or Linux. If you're on Apple, stick with an Apple sanctioned codec so you get hardware acceleration where applicable (on mobile devices and other handhelds).

ALAC isn't even "proprietary" or closed source anymore.

http://alac.macosforge.org

Apple released the source code for the codec a long time ago, and thus it is 100% documented. And frankly XLD is such an awesome ripper, it would be trivial to transcode to FLAC without losing anything (metadata or artwork) if you really need to change formats for some reason.

Stick with ALAC people. You don't need FLAC on OS X and it just complicates everything.

-SC

 

[mahmudd29]

iTunes built in Mp3 Ripper is quite good. Produces awesome Music qualityful tracks.

 

[cheekypaul]

MAX is the official software of Mac for converting audio files/CD into various formats. It allows user to expand sound for such level that it will not damage the sound quality and will help creating desired projects.

??
A dubious, perhaps naive, remark.
MAX is in no way official.
Maybe it has been mistranslated?

 

[Kyle Turnbull]

audio hijack

The best audio ripper hands down on the mac is Audio Hijack. Take audio from any program and save it as any format. Only downside is you have to wait for it play in real-time....

 

[Benway]

Wow.... A lot of you people remind me that a lot of people on the internet suck.

I was just putting out some things I felt I had learned, trying to be helpful, with the disclaimer that I could be totally wrong, and just mentioned what I was studying.
It wasn't some kind of brag.

I stated I was not a professional by any means,
And am a student,
And therefore it could be inferred by the reader that nothing I wrote should be taken as professional advice.

Rather than politely correcting me (and I'm not sure I've been corrected) you all just decided to be a mob of d***s about it.

It's like you watch too much family guy or something and feel that everything has to be an insult and a knock, even if somebody is just trying to be helpful.

Your knowledge may well be superior, and you should share it and correct people,
But spewing insults for no reasons just makes you sound like incredibly small mental weaklings for other reasons.

Get the funk over yourselves. Sad, sad people.

But really,
Good for you guys.

 

[Benway]

WAV is
- lossless
- cd quality
- UNIVERSAL ( or close enough).

Apparently AAC is not proprietary now and has been opened up.
As far as I was aware with my limited knowledge, it was basically a proprietary version of wav.

But previously, it was closed source, and not compatible in many places,
So I feel that would have been a poor ripping choice.

Flac is not universal. It's getting there.
It won't play in iTunes or your iPod,

....unless there have been some recent changes I'm not awre of. Im still running an earlier iOS.

Wav WILL work with these,
and pretty much anything.

I haven't had any trouble labeling my wav tracks information, which is the type of metadata I'm assuming a previous commenter was referring to.

I was just stating what I feel to be the pros of wav.

Is any of this wrong?

Again, if you want to reply or correct me, and please do,
here's a crazy challenge ;
see if you can do it politely without trying to make yourself feel superior by throwing insults everywhere like some kind of angry neurotic Tourette's patient.