aftershavedave
Well-known member
a few weeks ago i got started by buying myself a cd burner and was grateful for all of the useful advice from on here. after hours of research here's my idiots guide to music on your pc:
> get a half-decent cd burner, most on the marlet are now "burn-proof" (technically meaning that you can't feck up a recording) and as long as you get a cd/r and cd/rw there's no real pointin paying tons since this won't improve the quality of your burnt cd's
> if the objective is to make accurate copies of your mates cd's (or god forbid, of your oiwn as backup) then download one of the following cd-rippers:
exact audio copy......i couldn't get it to work, but it has more functions than the uss enterprise and is the nirvina for copying cd's
copycd.....as above i couldn't get this to copy more than one track at a time, and i couldn't register it.
freerip.....i like this one, bloody simple. rips or copies an entire cd to your hard disk at 1411 kps (ie very high quality copy....about 10 times more bits of information per second than mp3).always copy in wav format
>don't bother copying mp3 or wma formats unless you're not too bothered about the sound quality. these forrmats literally crush the audio information and therefore lose a lot of quality if you burn to cd
> the vast majority of tracks on kazaa and winmx are poor quality mp3, although it's pretty hard to tell the difference if played through your pc. if you want to copy cd's to play on a hi-0fi suystem, don't bother. i haven't had any of the virus problems others have reported with these, btw.
> of the media players i've tried musicmatch winamp and windows media player9. i was determined not to go for microsoft's mp9, but i think it's the best.
> having ripped a high quailty wav file version of a cd to your hard-disk (save in freerip as a file containing the tracks), open this in media player and copy to cd. i recommend the free cd burning software nero which you download and integrates itself into mp9.
>end result.....copied cd's each in about 5 mins with actual cd quality
i hope this is helpful
> get a half-decent cd burner, most on the marlet are now "burn-proof" (technically meaning that you can't feck up a recording) and as long as you get a cd/r and cd/rw there's no real pointin paying tons since this won't improve the quality of your burnt cd's
> if the objective is to make accurate copies of your mates cd's (or god forbid, of your oiwn as backup) then download one of the following cd-rippers:
exact audio copy......i couldn't get it to work, but it has more functions than the uss enterprise and is the nirvina for copying cd's
copycd.....as above i couldn't get this to copy more than one track at a time, and i couldn't register it.
freerip.....i like this one, bloody simple. rips or copies an entire cd to your hard disk at 1411 kps (ie very high quality copy....about 10 times more bits of information per second than mp3).always copy in wav format
>don't bother copying mp3 or wma formats unless you're not too bothered about the sound quality. these forrmats literally crush the audio information and therefore lose a lot of quality if you burn to cd
> the vast majority of tracks on kazaa and winmx are poor quality mp3, although it's pretty hard to tell the difference if played through your pc. if you want to copy cd's to play on a hi-0fi suystem, don't bother. i haven't had any of the virus problems others have reported with these, btw.
> of the media players i've tried musicmatch winamp and windows media player9. i was determined not to go for microsoft's mp9, but i think it's the best.
> having ripped a high quailty wav file version of a cd to your hard-disk (save in freerip as a file containing the tracks), open this in media player and copy to cd. i recommend the free cd burning software nero which you download and integrates itself into mp9.
>end result.....copied cd's each in about 5 mins with actual cd quality
i hope this is helpful
