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4. Would like to see the ability to extract full range sound ~5Hz to ~50 KHz


IIRC Nyquist has some issues with a 50kHz signal and a 44.1kHz sampling rate...

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(yes I know you can’t hear those sounds but if I am going to re-rip them all I wan’t to do it once and have something I can use in the feature if a better format comes along.

So I need suggestions of encoding format and a program to do it with



I'd say EAC is probably as good as it gets when it comes to getting the bits off the CDs... any ev. frequency losses would AFAIK only come from the codec. not the ripper.
For futureproofing you'll probably want a lossless compression format (if you can manage the storage, not sur how much the lossless formats compress...) - from that you can always unpack and recode into whatever format popular/required at the time w/o unneccessary losses. I'm not really up to speed on lossless formats, as to what exists or what features (tagging etc) they support...
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