I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying my
CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been copied.

Regards

"newman" wrote in message
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I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying my
CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been copied.


Bad time - we're a little busy! Can you come back tomorrow?

;-)

"newman" wrote in message


I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying my
CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been
copied.

You rip them with freeware software such as EAC orr CDEX.

Both software packages have an interface called "CDDB" which is composed of
a number of web-based database servers that convert information about the
tracks on commercial CDs into artist, genre, disc and track title
inforation.

You can find download sites for either piece of software by searching
google.

newman wrote:

I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying my
CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been copied.


iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use, and has a
good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

--
Now Playing: Weezer - Say it Ain't So [320kbps mp3]

nsj wrote:
newman wrote:

I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying my
CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been
copied.

iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use, and
has a good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

Seconded... and seamlessly interfaces with the iPod and iTunes Store should
you wish to use them

nsj wrote:

newman wrote:

I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying my
CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been copied.

iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use, and has a
good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

What do yoiu mean by a *lossless* 'encoder' ???


Graham

Pooh Bear wrote:

iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use, and
has a good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

What do yoiu mean by a *lossless* 'encoder' ???

An encoder that doesn't irreversably corrupt the input signal as part of the
encoding process.

If you go WAV - MP3 - WAV, the final WAV is different from the initial
WAV.

If, OTOH, you go WAV - FLAC - WAV, the two WAV's are identical

MP3 is a lossy format, FLAC is a lossless format

nsj wrote:

newman wrote:

I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying my
CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been copied.

iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use, and has a
good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

--
Now Playing: Weezer - Say it Ain't So [320kbps mp3]

I'm on Win98me

Regards

Stimpy wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:

iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use, and
has a good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

What do yoiu mean by a *lossless* 'encoder' ???

An encoder that doesn't irreversably corrupt the input signal as part of the
encoding process.

If you go WAV - MP3 - WAV, the final WAV is different from the initial
WAV.

If, OTOH, you go WAV - FLAC - WAV, the two WAV's are identical

MP3 is a lossy format,

That bit, I'm familiar with.


FLAC is a lossless format

No bit rate reduction ? I haven't come across FLAC yet.

Graham

newman wrote:

I am looking for the best newsgroup to find information on copying
my CDs to my PC and also identifying tracks which have already been
copied.

iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use, and
has a good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

I'm on Win98me

....and your point is?