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Topic: EAC WAV->MP3 320 44.1 KhZ/MP3 128 44.1 KhZ (Read 2721 times) previous topic - next topic
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EAC WAV->MP3 320 44.1 KhZ/MP3 128 44.1 KhZ

Hi to everybody, i'm new to this forum, and i'm italian, so please don't be too technical in your responses coz i could not understand them, thank you in advance
I come to the point, i got my Eminem original albums to rip to the hard disk, (i wanna prevent to scratch them and then re-buy them) and as i know, the better way to rip a cd to the hdd in wav format is Exact Audio Copy, that i already know by around 1 year, and that' i've already settted up the better way possible. I've done all the rips to my original discs but i've noticed my cd-rom drive has got an high speed on reading, so in ripping cd's, instead my dvd-rw doesn't ([the cd-rom rips at the speed of 52x and the dvd-rom rips at 8x] but eac says the better drive is the cd reader, so i just trusted the software and ripped my cd's to my hdd with the cd-rom), i got some questions i would like to be clearified for
1 Do i better use my dvd-rom drive at the speed of 8x to rip the cd's on my hdd?
2 Then i gotta convert those wav files to mp3 320 kbps 44.1 KhZ and also to mp3 128 kbps 44.1 kHz, and i would like to know wich commands of the lame encoder could obtain the better quality possible from the rip

and also if you got some suggestions to do me i'll be glad to know them
thank you in advance for your response
EDIT: to convert wav to mp3 i use to use "Dbpoweramp Music Converter"

EAC WAV->MP3 320 44.1 KhZ/MP3 128 44.1 KhZ

Reply #1 –
8x is the speed at which your dvd-rom drive reads dvds. If you check the specs you will find that it reads cds at a much higher speed.

The best lame command lines are "-b 320" for 320 kbps cbr and "-b 128" for 128 kbps cbr. However, you should really look into vbr settings instead.

EAC WAV->MP3 320 44.1 KhZ/MP3 128 44.1 KhZ

Reply #2 –
I'll let somebody else answer that on ripping, but I guess you can make the CD ROM rip slower...


About the MP3 encoding: I find Xrecode to be an easy and intuitive program for the job and there's even a portable version now. I would suggest variable bitrate (VBR) over constant bitrate (CBR), because you can get the same quality with smaller files. If you want variable bitrate the easiest way is to just select one of the V* presets. A V2 preset will give you a very good quality, IMO (V2 is probably the most used standard for mp3 encoding). Even V3 would probably be good enough so you won't notice any artifacts. But try and see (hear) for yourself. V0 is the highest quality and should give you the same quality as 320 kbps CBR, but with smaller files.