hi. Well really, I think that's probably a matter of personal
preference. To my knowledge, none of the formats that you can rip in
Winamp, at least by default, are lossless. There is the new aac plus
encoder which rips files to the .aac format which can produce smaller
files, but the only problem is i don't know how many portable devices
support such a format.
So if you don't have one and just want to listen to stuff on your
computer, and you're concerned about file storage space, then you may
wanna play with the options and find a good bitrate for it. Always
make sure that your sampling rate is 44.1 KHZ, but depending on the
person, you'll get all kinds of answers. For me, I'm perfectly happy
with 192k mp3, because it sounds great on all my portable devices
iPod shuffle, Iriver 899 and Archos, which of course goes beyond the
scope of this list, but the files ripped with Winamp or any other
encoder I've found sound great for me. others will prefer something
else, and people can really be anal about their audio preferences.
John,
Those are some well-written steps, thanks. However, I'm hoping you might be able to shed light on one other aspect of ripping. I see several choices for encoding, only a couple of which I recognize. Are any of these formats lossless? Or is choosing 320kbps the closest I'm going to get to that level? I also noticed WMA as an option for encoding, and within WMA there were several different numbers. What does all this mean?
Thanks, Scott
----- Original Message ----- From: "John McLuckie" <john_mac@xxxxxxx> To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:16 PM Subject: Re: RippingCD's using winamp
Wendy, I had sent this to another user a while back and it describes ripping and then burning, should someone wish to do so. since you are new, you would not have seen it so I'll resend it. Hope this helps.
John
Note: this is long, so those readers who already know this information, you may not wish to waste your time on this correspondence. I do this all the time and it works very well for me.
1. I place my CD in the drive and close the drawer. Note: I have Winamp set up to be my default player so the music on the CD starts playing in Winamp in the main window). 2. I stop play by pressing V and then either open the Library or go to it using control tab (if already opened). 3. When in the library, I press tab until I hear "Library." at that point, I down arrow until I hear "CDRD" and then tab hearing first the playlist, next play, then enqueue, and then rip. 4. Hitting the spacebar or enter here will bring up another selection option...rip all tracks or rip selected tracks. Although I have tried to>figure out how to rip only selected tracks, I have been unsuccessful, sorry about that, so I select rip all tracks and press enter. The ripping begins. Note: If you haven't already, go to preferences by using ctrl P,hitting home to go to the top of the preferences list, and then down arrow until you hear ripping speed. Tab at that point until you hear unlimited, enter on it. Since it is Winamp Pro, it should set to the level of your CDRW drive.off line at5. when it is completed, you can eject your CD and the CD you ripped is now in your "MY Music" directory.
To burn: 1. Go to the winamp playlist editor. 2. Press ctrl o to open your files, shift tab to your play lists and you should hear it say "playlists 1 of 118" (or whatever number of playlists you have. Note: you may not need to open the playlists if you go here immediately after ripping, since the tracks you just ripped are already in your playlist editor. 3. If necessary, then select the playlist you desire, the one you ripped, and hit enter. It may then ask you to again select the folder with a specific extention, such as PLS or something, just enter on the one you want, and your tracks will open in your playlist editor. 4. Now press ctrl tab and go to your library (or open your library. Then tab until you hear "library". Stop there and arrow down until you hear "CDRD." 5. Tab again hearing the selection "add button." I hit enter and get a menu to select either file, folder, or current playlist. select current playlist since you have just selected it in the editor. 6. When it is done adding all the tracks into your library list, you need to continue to tab a couple of times until you hear "list view, x number of items" Note: the first time you do this, it won't be a problem, you should hear the number of tracks that exist in your current playlist, and if you arrow up and down the list, you'll hear the track number and title. However, on subsequent ripping opportunities,, if you do not clear the current burning list, you'll simply add the new tracks to the previous tracks, so be careful. 7. Tab or back tab until you hear burn. Be sure you place a blank CD recordable in your CDRW drive, and press enter here and you'll get some choices and information. It will tell you about some test burn choices, tell you your burning speed, etc., I just go directly to burn now. Press it and the burning will begin. When done, if you have it set this way, the drive will open and your new CD will eject (I believe this is a default setting, but not for sure.
Hope this helps, if you have difficulty, please feel free to contact me
john_mac@xxxxxxx
Good Luck!
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