I always re rip the first and last track on a disc when the disc is unknown recognition. I figure a problem will occur more likely on the outside of the disc. Or plug in another drive, see if comes out the same way. Love my Plextors
I use this ripper, it is worth the money. Updates to the same version number series are free, but if they come out with a new version number as in 16 to 17 they will give you a discount on the new updated version number. It is better to enter the track info in the meta section by clicking the meta tag. Plus sometimes you can see different meta info from different sources if the CD is already in the system and than you can choose the one you think is the most accurate. I like the album art options. I get a lot of my album art from websites and just use the copy and paste from clipboard option. And if you happen to have a scanner hooked to your PC you can even scan the CD image into the program.
It is not just a good software but the "best" premium software for ripping CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio). I am now using the software for decades. Yeah the premium one.
I am new to cd ripping, and several in an FB group I belong to recommended dBpoweramp. Your video helped me in making the decision to go with it. Thanks
You're welcome David. dBpoweramp can do a lot more than what I showed in the video. You can use multiple drives so you can rip several CDs at the same time. Once you get the hang of it, you'll be a ripping machine.
Thanks for the review and the tips. I've just started using dBpoweramp and found the informtion useful. I suspect the reading speed is determined by how circular the CD is and whether the hole is exactly in the middle of it. I can hear my drive trying a fast speed and then backing off if the disc is slightly out of balance and starts to vibrate. I imagine that for higher reading speeds you need a nicely transparent outer layer to the disc and a reflective layer whose 1s and 0s were written cleanly at manufacture. Some discs will be better than others in all those respects.
You're welcome Richard. I noticed my drive speed spooling up fast then backing down as well. This program is great and is a very user friendly. The fact that it compares your rips to a database is very nice feature. I have found that GD3 is the best for metadata, when the CD picture is wrong, GD3 usually has the correct album cover. I mentioned that before in another video, but I forgot to put it in this video. Happy ripping!
@@StevesStrayStuff I have to choose my own artwork from file as I'm creating MP3 files for the car, and the player can only cope with images of 500x500 max. All of the album artwork I'm offered by dBpoweramp is larger than that. But it's not a problem (if you remember to change it before ripping). I use Affinity Photo to clean up and resize the images I find online, which is another product I can recommend.
Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial, it definitely helps me feel more confident trying the process out for myself! One question though, are you using any special sort of CD drive specifically for high fidelity? Or will any external drive do the trick since the program has those redundant error checks anyway?
@@Xeon2112 You're welcome. I am just using the drive that came stock in my 2017 HP Pavilion desktop, nothing fancy or exotic. Happy CD ripping, you will get the hang of dBpoweramp in no time. Thanks for watching!
Hello Steve...I have been thinking and thinking and researching cd music rippers and it was all rolling in my head confusing me more and more as I researched. Most my tunes are on ITunes now and when I want to burn various songs, I copy and past the tunes I wish and put them in Documents folder under that groups name just to have another file on what I burned. Anyway...thank you so much for providing information and showing how it was done on different issues. You were marvelous, and you spoke my language. You helped me so much. I will re-read your tutorial again until I get it down in my brain. I just wanted something easy that does a good job. I always look at the negative comments as well and read the fine print. I cannot seek help from my husband as he can hardly get the cable TV to work or his cell phone. He occasionally messes up and gets the tv off cable and calls me "Ohhhh Deeeaarr!" and I have to go and check what he did because he surely does not know. My daughter who is a wiz on her cell phone but she is not into burning or ripping. I am so glad that I found you. I thank you so much.
Thank you so much for the nice comment. Being the household IT person is a big responsibility, especially when someone boogers something up and wants it fixed immediately, haha. dBpoweramp is a very powerful program, it does much more than I demonstrated in this video. If you have multiple CD drives, you can rip more that one CD at a time. Good luck and have fun ripping your CDs. If you have any questions, let me know and I will try to help you out. Thank you for watching!
What a great video! Thanks so much! I am literally in the process of ripping my Christmas CD collection and I could not figure out how to change the file renaming convention, so I did a YT search and found your channel. I learned a few things I did not know, so thanks for sharing! One question, Do you happen to know how to change the naming convention for the file names. I would like to use this order, %track% - %title% - %artist% - %album%, but I cannot figure out how to do that. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Also, i believe the reason for the difference if read /write speed is because a CD player reads data slower from the outside of the disc and increases speed as it gets to the center. Thanks!
Thank you Mongo! Your name reminds me of Ted Nugent's Wango Tango, haha! I have never monkeyed with Naming, but when you open the CD Ripper, go to the bottom left, look for Naming and click on SET, there are other options to open up. I would play around with that to see if you can rearrange parameters and get it to do what you want it to do. The Christmas rips were very painful! If you attempt this, please let me know you make out and thanks for watching.
@@StevesStrayStuff Hehehehehe :). Yeah, it is a bit out there. I figured it out thanks to you. Your video pointed me in the right direction. I am creating, literally working on this now, a library of all my Christmas CDs. I am using the "Multi Encoder" option to rip FLAC, AIFF, WAV, Apple Losseless, and MP3 all at the same time, to different directories, so I can reduce the house keeping. I figured that out while trying to figure out the naming conventions. Go figure! Actually, it is pretty easy. You just click "Naming" as you mentioned and use the builder they have. I am using the paid version of dBpoweramp 17.4. I created the naming convention I wanted, then copied it to the rest of the formats. Super simple, once you know what you are doing. I am literally in the process of backing up all my files right now. Sill have more work to do, but I just knocked out a be chunk of work. Once again, thanks for the inspiration!!! BTW: No kidding, ripping Christmas Music, especially content that is old is difficult. I suggest using MP3Tag and MusicBranz Picard. That will help with the meta tags and album art. Let me know if you would like more details. Thanks again, stay safe and be well!!
It's actually the opposite. The data reading speeds increases as you move to the outer part of the CD. When you have constant angular velocity (the rotations of the disk per minute), the linear velocity (the length of the data path) increases in a fixed period of time. Just think how large the circle is on the outside of a CD, vs the inside. One revolution of a CD can retrieve a lot more data from that big circle than from the small one. CDs are read from the center outwards. So you should notice that all your higher track numbers are copying faster than the lower numbe ones.
What I do with the ripped files now? In EAC or Foobar 2000 they ask you where you are going to park the files, what folder. Can't find any such question in dbpoweramp.
When you open up the dBpoweramp CD Ripper, look at the bottom left hand corner of your screen and you will see where you can enter the 'Path' to store your music. Path is location for your ripped music to be stored. Go to 02:30 and you will see that my Path for the ripped music is Y:/My Music Library. My music is stored on an external NAS which is my Y drive and I have a folder on that NAS that is labeled My Music Library. You enter the path to where you want your music stored and click SET. dBpoweramp will always use that Path unless you change it. I hope I explained this so you can understand me. Sometime it is hard to put into words what is in my head!
A fool question: how do you end the process and make dbpoweramp move the ripped files to the right directory. Is there a way to create a cue sheet file to go with the music files or do I have to use other program to do so. Some people think that you need a cue sheet just when you have a large file containing all the music themes, but I think every CD needs a cue sheet. There seem to be two type of cue files, and not all playing programs see or act with the same one.
@@carlose.martinez545 I am not familiar with a 'cue sheet' that you mention. I know people the rip classical music do complain about metadata and tracks not being separated. My genres are rock and blues, so the metadata is very good and all of the tracks are listed in the folder for the particular CD I rip, along with the album cover. I went to the dBpoweramp forum and dBpoweramp says "You do not need CUE sheets, they are for people who want the whole CD as one big track." I do not know if this your goal, but I have never heard of cue sheets until I read your post. Thank you for teaching me something.
OK, I created a dbpowermp folder, and the files were directly there after ripping. Now I need to create a cue sheet so the player plays from it. Any hints on how to do that? The way they show that on the official forum is too complicated. Can I add a cuesheet made on ImgBurn, for instance, or the sheet needs to be created by the same program that rips the disc?
I have never tried it, but this is posted in the dBpoweramp help forum about multiple drives: In case you haven't figured this out, just start dBpoweramp, select the CD drive you want, minimize it or slide it to a different monitor, double click on the shortcut again to start another instance, which will come up with the same drive you just selected. Change the drive with the dropdown list to another drive. Repeat for as many instances as you want. Good luck!
Yes I just used 2 CD drives at the same time with Dbpoweramp to rip hundreds of my CDs. Works great. After you open it once, just click on the icon a second time to open another window of it. Set each window to a drive and rip away.
I still have a question. I have a Windows laptop, Windows Legacy, and an Apple USB SuperDrive. What's the difference between my setup and using dbPoweramp?
Yes it does a great job. I think you will be very happy. I have ripped over 1000 CDs. I use Roon music server software and my rips provide Roon with excellent meta data. Meta Data - taken from the dBpoweramp website. Meta data comprises identification fields, such as album, artist and artwork, and is embedded into audio files in their ID Tags. PerfectMeta™ online meta-data from Discogs, GD3, SonataDB (Classical), MusicBrainz and freedb simultaneously to retrieve track names and high resolution Album Art [dBpoweramp Reference required. PerfectMeta™ uses 5 Internet meta data providers simultaneously, this allows errors such as spelling mistakes to detected and corrected. PerfectMeta offers the best metadata solution obtainable today. Sonata metadata is delivered through GD3, if present for a disc it replaces GD3.
Hopefully since making this video you've discovered that you can right click over the file selection tick boxes to deselect or select all. I noticed that when reripping one tracks you first deselected all the other tracks individually.
Very nice tutorial! Looks like you were all set for a merry Christmas of music listening and cocktails in 2020. dBPoweramp is very similar to "EZ CD Audio Converter" available with life time subscription that includes updates for one time purchase of $40. It gets metadata from GD3, WMP / Gracenote, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Freedb, and Amazon. Based on another users comment it seems that dbPowerAmp can also use different metadata sources. You mentioned that you took a picture of CD when the artwork isn't available. Did you mean to say that you scanned it, since that would give you a lot cleaner image? I've found that cleaning a CD when it doesn't read correctly will usually fix the issue. For quick modifying of tags after the fact, check out Tag&Rename, is intuitive and quick to update one or more tracks. This includes renaming one or more file names. A NAS is the only way to go with FLAC files being so huge. Plus with all the time involved in ripping, even if you used mp3, a NAS with RAID assures no data loss should a disc got bad. Even with this arrangement I got perhaps overly paranoid, considering I also have thousands of movie on it as well, that I bought another NAS that I keep off site at my brothers for everything to auto backup to every night. I put a shelf in at very top of laundry room so it's out of sight and free from tampering, etc. Very easy to login into remotely as well for maintenance. I retire in a year and plan to dive in to finish ripping my 1,000 or so CDs then. I see you use Room to play music. Have you tried Plex or PlexAmp? They auto transcode to mp3 if needed when playing remotely from a car, etc.
Thank you for the comment Ken. I actually took a picture of the CD cover art, I never about thought about scanning it, which would have been super simple instead of me getting the camera directly overhead the CD so I didn't distort the image. Damn, I wish I thought about scanning, I will scan next time, thanks for the tip! I chose Christmas music for this video because the Christmas CDs were the most painful for me to rip. I do love the NAS approach. I have two NAS, one dedicated to my music server and one dedicated to my videos. I have only used Roon for my music because when I started this whole music server journey, I planned it around using Roon. I put a shelf in the very top of a bedroom closet for my NAS as well. That closet is directly behind the wall where my A/V gear is located so I was able to run an HDMI cable from my NAS to my preamp/processor. Enjoy your musical journey in retirement, I am right behind you, I am done working in 2023. Thanks for watching and cheers Ken! 🍻
Hi Steve, I'm not sure what the hell i'm doing but I have my settings to: Rip to: FLAC, Path to: Music and i'm running this on my Windows 7 pc but IDK how to find the music and then put onto my usb stick so I can use in my car. I also heard that you can do FLAC & MP3 at the same time. Any help much apprec.
You are putting the music in a Music folder on your PC. If you click on This PC, the Music folder should appear in the drop-downs along with Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, etc. You can try searching for the 'Music' on your PC and it should take you there. If you have two drives running, one drive can do FLAC while the other drive does MP3. dBpoweramp supports using multiple drives, you just have to choose the wanted drive from the drop-down menu in the program. Good luck!
Thanks for the tips on CRC and re-ripping/checking for green when AccurateRip doesn't validate. Great video. As someone mentioned below...I found the metadata tag, where you can see different database listed info and just check the info you like best from different sources.
Thank you. This program does much more than I showed in the video. The more you use it, the more you will find other things it can do. Happy CD ripping and thanks for watching!
@@KG-zh2cg Since dBpoweramp recommends Level 5, that is what I use. I don't hear an audible difference between 5 and uncompressed, but I do save storage space.
Have You Tried Exact Audio Copy It's Free It Has error Correction It Has a Free DataBase Engine etc. I Love It Been Using It For 20 Years give it a try Guys You will Love It Save Yourself 69.00 Dollars. cheers
I never tried EAC, but I did read about it before purchasing dBpoweramp. A lot of people said that they found dBpoweramp more user friendly, so I went with dBpoweramp.
@@StevesStrayStuff I had been looking at Exact Audio Copy as I came across that recommendation from another source which also recommended this software. However, in the notes, it stated that if you have the time in setting it up that it was a good software. I am not an expert of these things, and when I read that, I decided to check out this software. Now I have ripped some music from a TH-cam video from a band which I have bought everyone of their cds they came out with. However, they preformed at a pub in France, and I wanted those songs which are on an array of their CDs that I had bought but it was live. It was an old performance back in 1968 or 69. I did some research and found the free software which emblem looks like a cone one sees when people are working on the road. I do not know how I stumbled through it, but I did it and am happy that I got this live performance in MP3 format for my car, which I had then burned, and that was a number of years ago and to which I still play in my car. I think I will go with the software you kindly explained.
I always re rip the first and last track on a disc when the disc is unknown recognition. I figure a problem will occur more likely on the outside of the disc. Or plug in another drive, see if comes out the same way. Love my Plextors
That's a great idea, I never thought of that!
I use this ripper, it is worth the money. Updates to the same version number series are free, but if they come out with a new version number as in 16 to 17 they will give you a discount on the new updated version number. It is better to enter the track info in the meta section by clicking the meta tag. Plus sometimes you can see different meta info from different sources if the CD is already in the system and than you can choose the one you think is the most accurate. I like the album art options. I get a lot of my album art from websites and just use the copy and paste from clipboard option. And if you happen to have a scanner hooked to your PC you can even scan the CD image into the program.
Wow, I never thought about scanning the CD image, I am always breaking out the camera to take the photo. Great tip, thank you very much!
It is not just a good software but the "best" premium software for ripping CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio).
I am now using the software for decades. Yeah the premium one.
It does do a great job!
I am new to cd ripping, and several in an FB group I belong to recommended dBpoweramp. Your video helped me in making the decision to go with it. Thanks
You're welcome David. dBpoweramp can do a lot more than what I showed in the video. You can use multiple drives so you can rip several CDs at the same time. Once you get the hang of it, you'll be a ripping machine.
Thanks for the review and the tips. I've just started using dBpoweramp and found the informtion useful. I suspect the reading speed is determined by how circular the CD is and whether the hole is exactly in the middle of it. I can hear my drive trying a fast speed and then backing off if the disc is slightly out of balance and starts to vibrate. I imagine that for higher reading speeds you need a nicely transparent outer layer to the disc and a reflective layer whose 1s and 0s were written cleanly at manufacture. Some discs will be better than others in all those respects.
You're welcome Richard. I noticed my drive speed spooling up fast then backing down as well. This program is great and is a very user friendly. The fact that it compares your rips to a database is very nice feature. I have found that GD3 is the best for metadata, when the CD picture is wrong, GD3 usually has the correct album cover. I mentioned that before in another video, but I forgot to put it in this video. Happy ripping!
@@StevesStrayStuff I have to choose my own artwork from file as I'm creating MP3 files for the car, and the player can only cope with images of 500x500 max. All of the album artwork I'm offered by dBpoweramp is larger than that. But it's not a problem (if you remember to change it before ripping). I use Affinity Photo to clean up and resize the images I find online, which is another product I can recommend.
Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial, it definitely helps me feel more confident trying the process out for myself! One question though, are you using any special sort of CD drive specifically for high fidelity? Or will any external drive do the trick since the program has those redundant error checks anyway?
@@Xeon2112 You're welcome. I am just using the drive that came stock in my 2017 HP Pavilion desktop, nothing fancy or exotic. Happy CD ripping, you will get the hang of dBpoweramp in no time. Thanks for watching!
Hello Steve...I have been thinking and thinking and researching cd music rippers and it was all rolling in my head confusing me more and more as I researched. Most my tunes are on ITunes now and when I want to burn various songs, I copy and past the tunes I wish and put them in Documents folder under that groups name just to have another file on what I burned. Anyway...thank you so much for providing information and showing how it was done on different issues. You were marvelous, and you spoke my language. You helped me so much. I will re-read your tutorial again until I get it down in my brain. I just wanted something easy that does a good job. I always look at the negative comments as well and read the fine print. I cannot seek help from my husband as he can hardly get the cable TV to work or his cell phone. He occasionally messes up and gets the tv off cable and calls me "Ohhhh Deeeaarr!" and I have to go and check what he did because he surely does not know. My daughter who is a wiz on her cell phone but she is not into burning or ripping. I am so glad that I found you. I thank you so much.
Thank you so much for the nice comment. Being the household IT person is a big responsibility, especially when someone boogers something up and wants it fixed immediately, haha. dBpoweramp is a very powerful program, it does much more than I demonstrated in this video. If you have multiple CD drives, you can rip more that one CD at a time. Good luck and have fun ripping your CDs. If you have any questions, let me know and I will try to help you out. Thank you for watching!
What a great video! Thanks so much! I am literally in the process of ripping my Christmas CD collection and I could not figure out how to change the file renaming convention, so I did a YT search and found your channel. I learned a few things I did not know, so thanks for sharing! One question, Do you happen to know how to change the naming convention for the file names. I would like to use this order, %track% - %title% - %artist% - %album%, but I cannot figure out how to do that. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Also, i believe the reason for the difference if read /write speed is because a CD player reads data slower from the outside of the disc and increases speed as it gets to the center. Thanks!
Thank you Mongo! Your name reminds me of Ted Nugent's Wango Tango, haha! I have never monkeyed with Naming, but when you open the CD Ripper, go to the bottom left, look for Naming and click on SET, there are other options to open up. I would play around with that to see if you can rearrange parameters and get it to do what you want it to do. The Christmas rips were very painful! If you attempt this, please let me know you make out and thanks for watching.
@@StevesStrayStuff Hehehehehe :). Yeah, it is a bit out there.
I figured it out thanks to you. Your video pointed me in the right direction.
I am creating, literally working on this now, a library of all my Christmas CDs. I am using the "Multi Encoder" option to rip FLAC, AIFF, WAV, Apple Losseless, and MP3 all at the same time, to different directories, so I can reduce the house keeping. I figured that out while trying to figure out the naming conventions. Go figure! Actually, it is pretty easy. You just click "Naming" as you mentioned and use the builder they have. I am using the paid version of dBpoweramp 17.4. I created the naming convention I wanted, then copied it to the rest of the formats. Super simple, once you know what you are doing. I am literally in the process of backing up all my files right now. Sill have more work to do, but I just knocked out a be chunk of work. Once again, thanks for the inspiration!!! BTW: No kidding, ripping Christmas Music, especially content that is old is difficult. I suggest using MP3Tag and MusicBranz Picard. That will help with the meta tags and album art. Let me know if you would like more details.
Thanks again, stay safe and be well!!
It's actually the opposite. The data reading speeds increases as you move to the outer part of the CD. When you have constant angular velocity (the rotations of the disk per minute), the linear velocity (the length of the data path) increases in a fixed period of time. Just think how large the circle is on the outside of a CD, vs the inside. One revolution of a CD can retrieve a lot more data from that big circle than from the small one. CDs are read from the center outwards. So you should notice that all your higher track numbers are copying faster than the lower numbe ones.
What I do with the ripped files now? In EAC or Foobar 2000 they ask you where you are going to park the files, what folder. Can't find any such question in dbpoweramp.
When you open up the dBpoweramp CD Ripper, look at the bottom left hand corner of your screen and you will see where you can enter the 'Path' to store your music. Path is location for your ripped music to be stored. Go to 02:30 and you will see that my Path for the ripped music is Y:/My Music Library. My music is stored on an external NAS which is my Y drive and I have a folder on that NAS that is labeled My Music Library.
You enter the path to where you want your music stored and click SET. dBpoweramp will always use that Path unless you change it. I hope I explained this so you can understand me. Sometime it is hard to put into words what is in my head!
A fool question: how do you end the process and make dbpoweramp move the ripped files to the right directory. Is there a way to create a cue sheet file to go with the music files or do I have to use other program to do so. Some people think that you need a cue sheet just when you have a large file containing all the music themes, but I think every CD needs a cue sheet. There seem to be two type of cue files, and not all playing programs see or act with the same one.
@@carlose.martinez545 I am not familiar with a 'cue sheet' that you mention. I know people the rip classical music do complain about metadata and tracks not being separated. My genres are rock and blues, so the metadata is very good and all of the tracks are listed in the folder for the particular CD I rip, along with the album cover. I went to the dBpoweramp forum and dBpoweramp says "You do not need CUE sheets, they are for people who want the whole CD as one big track." I do not know if this your goal, but I have never heard of cue sheets until I read your post. Thank you for teaching me something.
OK, I created a dbpowermp folder, and the files were directly there after ripping. Now I need to create a cue sheet so the player plays from it. Any hints on how to do that? The way they show that on the official forum is too complicated. Can I add a cuesheet made on ImgBurn, for instance, or the sheet needs to be created by the same program that rips the disc?
@carlose.martinez545 Are you trying to play your ripped music in your dBpoweramp folder and it will not play?
Can you use multiple CD drives for speed? I have close to 3000 CDs to do
I have never tried it, but this is posted in the dBpoweramp help forum about multiple drives:
In case you haven't figured this out, just start dBpoweramp, select the CD drive you want, minimize it or slide it to a different monitor, double click on the shortcut again to start another instance, which will come up with the same drive you just selected. Change the drive with the dropdown list to another drive. Repeat for as many instances as you want. Good luck!
Yes I just used 2 CD drives at the same time with Dbpoweramp to rip hundreds of my CDs. Works great. After you open it once, just click on the icon a second time to open another window of it. Set each window to a drive and rip away.
Thank's Steve. I'm gonna take the plunge and buy this for my home D library. I've used the Apple music software, and will now upgrade to dbPoweramp
You're welcome. Happy ripping, I am sure you will not be disappointed.
@@StevesStrayStuff bought, and already ripped 4 CDs, newly purchased Bon Scott era AC/DC, no less! I particularly like the metadata review
I still have a question. I have a Windows laptop, Windows Legacy, and an Apple USB SuperDrive. What's the difference between my setup and using dbPoweramp?
Hey Steve, can you advise if this is a great tool for exporting metadata FROM a CD?
Yes it does a great job. I think you will be very happy. I have ripped over 1000 CDs. I use Roon music server software and my rips provide Roon with excellent meta data.
Meta Data - taken from the dBpoweramp website.
Meta data comprises identification fields, such as album, artist and artwork, and is embedded into audio files in their ID Tags.
PerfectMeta™ online meta-data from Discogs, GD3, SonataDB (Classical), MusicBrainz and freedb simultaneously to retrieve track names and high resolution Album Art [dBpoweramp Reference required.
PerfectMeta™ uses 5 Internet meta data providers simultaneously, this allows errors such as spelling mistakes to detected and corrected. PerfectMeta offers the best metadata solution obtainable today. Sonata metadata is delivered through GD3, if present for a disc it replaces GD3.
Hopefully since making this video you've discovered that you can right click over the file selection tick boxes to deselect or select all. I noticed that when reripping one tracks you first deselected all the other tracks individually.
Thanks for the tip! I did not know that.
Thanks!
@@ChrisMavrou Thank you very much! I appreciate it.
Very nice tutorial! Looks like you were all set for a merry Christmas of music listening and cocktails in 2020.
dBPoweramp is very similar to "EZ CD Audio Converter" available with life time subscription that includes updates for one time purchase of $40. It gets metadata from GD3, WMP / Gracenote, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Freedb, and Amazon. Based on another users comment it seems that dbPowerAmp can also use different metadata sources.
You mentioned that you took a picture of CD when the artwork isn't available. Did you mean to say that you scanned it, since that would give you a lot cleaner image?
I've found that cleaning a CD when it doesn't read correctly will usually fix the issue.
For quick modifying of tags after the fact, check out Tag&Rename, is intuitive and quick to update one or more tracks. This includes renaming one or more file names.
A NAS is the only way to go with FLAC files being so huge. Plus with all the time involved in ripping, even if you used mp3, a NAS with RAID assures no data loss should a disc got bad. Even with this arrangement I got perhaps overly paranoid, considering I also have thousands of movie on it as well, that I bought another NAS that I keep off site at my brothers for everything to auto backup to every night. I put a shelf in at very top of laundry room so it's out of sight and free from tampering, etc. Very easy to login into remotely as well for maintenance.
I retire in a year and plan to dive in to finish ripping my 1,000 or so CDs then.
I see you use Room to play music. Have you tried Plex or PlexAmp? They auto transcode to mp3 if needed when playing remotely from a car, etc.
Thank you for the comment Ken. I actually took a picture of the CD cover art, I never about thought about scanning it, which would have been super simple instead of me getting the camera directly overhead the CD so I didn't distort the image. Damn, I wish I thought about scanning, I will scan next time, thanks for the tip! I chose Christmas music for this video because the Christmas CDs were the most painful for me to rip. I do love the NAS approach. I have two NAS, one dedicated to my music server and one dedicated to my videos. I have only used Roon for my music because when I started this whole music server journey, I planned it around using Roon. I put a shelf in the very top of a bedroom closet for my NAS as well. That closet is directly behind the wall where my A/V gear is located so I was able to run an HDMI cable from my NAS to my preamp/processor. Enjoy your musical journey in retirement, I am right behind you, I am done working in 2023. Thanks for watching and cheers Ken! 🍻
Hi Steve, I'm not sure what the hell i'm doing but I have my settings to: Rip to: FLAC, Path to: Music and i'm running this on my Windows 7 pc but IDK how to find the music and then put onto my usb stick so I can use in my car. I also heard that you can do FLAC & MP3 at the same time. Any help much apprec.
You are putting the music in a Music folder on your PC. If you click on This PC, the Music folder should appear in the drop-downs along with Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, etc. You can try searching for the 'Music' on your PC and it should take you there. If you have two drives running, one drive can do FLAC while the other drive does MP3. dBpoweramp supports using multiple drives, you just have to choose the wanted drive from the drop-down menu in the program. Good luck!
@@StevesStrayStuff Thank you sir for you response. Hopefully I can get it figured out. thanks again
@@thepropertygurus.9940 My pleasure. If you have issues, let me know, I am old guy with time on his hands, I'll see if I can help you out.
Nice clear tutorial thank you! Next time would be great if you go into the settings
Thank you amit, I will add a 'settings' video to the drawing board!
Thanks for the tips on CRC and re-ripping/checking for green when AccurateRip doesn't validate. Great video. As someone mentioned below...I found the metadata tag, where you can see different database listed info and just check the info you like best from different sources.
You're welcome Phil. The more you monkey around with the program, the more useful things you will discover. Happy ripping and thanks for watching!
What cd burner do you use my Plextor gave out
Hey Bruce, I don't use anything fancy, I am using the stock CD burner that came installed in my 2017 HP desktop computer.
Excellent Tutorial Sir
Thank you. This program does much more than I showed in the video. The more you use it, the more you will find other things it can do. Happy CD ripping and thanks for watching!
The Sir know a way to crack this software?
I don't want to crack it, I purchased it unbroken, haha.
I've ripped approximately 10,000 discs. Couldn't have done it without this excellent program. Well worth the reasonable purchase price.
Brilliant tutorial, thank you Sir.
You are very welcome! Happy CD ripping!
Brilliant tutorial, thank you very much, appreciated 👌
You're very welcome, happy CD ripping!
@StevesStrayStuff I've subscribed to as you seem like a decent chap 🫡
@@alexplane5359 Thank you for subscribing alex!
Nice, thank you!
Thank you. Have fun ripping your CDs!
very helpfull. than you man
Rip on KG!
@@StevesStrayStuff one question please. why level 5 on lossless encoding and not full uncompred? than you
@@KG-zh2cg Since dBpoweramp recommends Level 5, that is what I use. I don't hear an audible difference between 5 and uncompressed, but I do save storage space.
@@StevesStrayStuff THANX
Have You Tried Exact Audio Copy It's Free It Has error Correction It Has a Free DataBase Engine etc. I Love It Been Using It For 20 Years give it a try Guys You will Love It Save Yourself 69.00 Dollars. cheers
I never tried EAC, but I did read about it before purchasing dBpoweramp. A lot of people said that they found dBpoweramp more user friendly, so I went with dBpoweramp.
@@StevesStrayStuff I had been looking at Exact Audio Copy as I came across that recommendation from another source which also recommended this software. However, in the notes, it stated that if you have the time in setting it up that it was a good software. I am not an expert of these things, and when I read that, I decided to check out this software. Now I have ripped some music from a TH-cam video from a band which I have bought everyone of their cds they came out with. However, they preformed at a pub in France, and I wanted those songs which are on an array of their CDs that I had bought but it was live. It was an old performance back in 1968 or 69. I did some research and found the free software which emblem looks like a cone one sees when people are working on the road. I do not know how I stumbled through it, but I did it and am happy that I got this live performance in MP3 format for my car, which I had then burned, and that was a number of years ago and to which I still play in my car. I think I will go with the software you kindly explained.