Looking for best newsgroup...

**newman** · August 12th 04, 01:37 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

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

**Keith G** · August 12th 04, 03:52 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

"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?

;-)

**Arny Krueger** · August 13th 04, 01:40 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

"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.

**nsj** · August 15th 04, 02:16 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

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]

**Stimpy** · August 16th 04, 05:00 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

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

**Pooh Bear** · August 16th 04, 07:30 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

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

**Stimpy** · August 16th 04, 08:50 PM posted to uk.rec.audio

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

**Pooh Bear** · August 17th 04, 02:38 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

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

**Stimpy** · August 17th 04, 08:02 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

Pooh Bear wrote:
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.

Check it out; along with APE it's definitely *the* format for compressing
raw'WAVs. Sharing The Groove et al won't allow any lossy files to be
traded, everything is FLAC or APE (often further compressed into SHN)

**newman** · August 17th 04, 12:28 AM posted to uk.rec.audio

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