Comments on: Should You Re-Rip Your Music? http://www.mcelhearn.com/2008/08/04/should-you-re-rip-your-music/ Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Greg http://www.mcelhearn.com/2008/08/04/should-you-re-rip-your-music/#comment-2670 Greg Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:20:25 +0000 http://www.mcelhearn.com/wordpress/?p=279#comment-2670 Rip your media with X-Lossless Decoder (XLD) which can compress to ALAC, AAC, MP3, FLAC or whatever. The point is, it is free and can perform completely secure ripping with reporting down to the individual atom jitter, duplicate byte error and the rest of them. It can generate CUE sheets and ripping logs as well. It is the Mac answer to EAC for Windows (it's actually better). Cheers. Rip your media with X-Lossless Decoder (XLD) which can compress to ALAC, AAC, MP3, FLAC or whatever. The point is, it is free and can perform completely secure ripping with reporting down to the individual atom jitter, duplicate byte error and the rest of them. It can generate CUE sheets and ripping logs as well. It is the Mac answer to EAC for Windows (it’s actually better). Cheers.

]]> By: Kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/2008/08/04/should-you-re-rip-your-music/#comment-615 Kirk Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:56:26 +0000 http://www.mcelhearn.com/wordpress/?p=279#comment-615 If you're on a Mac, here's what you can do: use this AppleScript: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=copytinforackstotracks Copy the tag info from the existing tracks to the new ones, then delete the old ones. (You'll want to put the old ones in a Temp playlist so, after copying, you can delete them easily.) If you’re on a Mac, here’s what you can do: use this AppleScript:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=copytinforackstotracks

Copy the tag info from the existing tracks to the new ones, then delete the old
ones. (You’ll want to put the old ones in a Temp playlist so, after copying, you
can delete them easily.)

]]> By: davidm http://www.mcelhearn.com/2008/08/04/should-you-re-rip-your-music/#comment-614 davidm Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:22:43 +0000 http://www.mcelhearn.com/wordpress/?p=279#comment-614 The only thing that gets in the way of sitting down and re-ripping a large number of discs is the amount of work needed to get the metadata right! I find it very rare that the online data available for classical CDs is accurate -- or, if it's theoretically accurate, rare that it's set up the way I want it. I don't know if I'm particularly fussy about metadata (always a possibility), but it's taken me a while to get right and I hesitate to throw that amount of work out the window! The only thing that gets in the way of sitting down and re-ripping a large
number of discs is the amount of work needed to get the metadata right! I find it
very rare that the online data available for classical CDs is accurate — or, if it’s
theoretically accurate, rare that it’s set up the way I want it. I don’t know if I’m
particularly fussy about metadata (always a possibility), but it’s taken me a while
to get right and I hesitate to throw that amount of work out the window!

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