As for rippers, CDDA does the best job - far superior to the ripper in AC in terms of speed. But I'll use the ripper in AC, as it automates the process more to my liking.

It seems that the thing with rippers is that different rippers prefer different CD drives. I never could get CDDA to rip reliably above 2x speed on my drive, whereas AC rips along at 4x (and works most of the time at 8x, but then most of the time isn't good enough, so I stick to 4x).

The other good thing about AC is that it encodes so damn fast. I can rip and encode at 4x speed, a CD every 15 minutes, excellent !


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