How to Rip Your Music CDs to FLAC in 2023
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- In this video, I continue my journey in the world of CDs. I was curious how to RIP a CD in the world of streaming. I found an easy, streamlined process using Exact Audio Copy to rip your CD and burn a CD-R using AnyBurn.
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My truck has an OEM Alpine stereo, and I really like how it sounds.
It doesn't have any sort of headphone jack, and the cassette deck is broken.
It's got a 6 CD changer tho, so I've been using that but haven't got many CDs left.
This definitely helps!
This is awesome! I love the vinyl style CD-Rs. I'm definitely getting some.
And I hadn't thought of making custom Greatest Hits albums. Very cool idea
I love the passion man. Thank you for this.
Thank you for the great presentation!!!
This is amazing man! Thanks for sharing!
No problem! Glad it helped!
Great video helped me out a ton.
Awesome. There are more videos out there that go in depth on how to setup your Exact Audio Copy Software, however this has worked really well for me.
I haven't found that program for Linux but have been able to use other programs that work well. KB3 is one of them. A good amount of vintage music such as big band is showing up on hi rez audio sellers in FLAC format including the one you mentioned. I have to sub!
Thanks man! You saved my day!
Awesome! Glad I could help!
I’m rather surprised that the burning feature in EAC still works for you. I used it in the past as it’s offered setting the writing offset of the drive for audio CD’s unlike Nero, for example. But a few years later, when I needed to burn a CD after a long time, I was able to burn only in an external drive connected through a USB port, several windows with a writing error popped up when I tried an internal drive. I was told that maybe EAC does not support SATA drives for writing (only ATA), actually it worked flawlessly when we still used older ATA drives, so I thought that might be the issue. However, now I have just external drives (two DVD writers, a DVD/BD combo and a BD writer) and none of them can be used for burning in EAC, I also tried to change all the settings there and nothing helped, it’s really weird.
I like dbPowerAmp for ripping CDs. If it has problems reading the CD, it let’s you know. I buy lots of used CDS, and I was surprised by how many of them had problems. BTW, FLAC is a lossless codec, so the playback of the FLAC file should be as good as the file on the CD, ceteris paribus. I use Apple Lossless, because I use an old version of ITunes to play my tunes.
Nice 👍🏻
I know I'm late to the party, but I just recently subscribed to your channel. I've been burning CDs for years from flac files I purchased to make albums I couldn't find the original CDs for. Your tip about Anyburn will simplify my process greatly. One question: what program do you use to print the inserts for the CD case? I didn't see anything listed in the description.
I used a program by Avery the company that provided the inserts. What a nightmare though. I'm still looking for a better option I'll keep you posted
Haven't watched the full video, so I'm not sure why exactly you're printing the inserts. If you're doing it to add it as cover art metadata to your FLAC file, why not just save the high-quality album art from google images results? Or use a program like AutomaTag to automatically do it for you.
Any ideas how to increase the audio, because i have done a single file rip to flac of an audio cd but for some reason maybe because its 1998 , its a little soft.
@@CollosalTrollge Depends on which ripping program you use. Most use Exact Audio Copy. Another reason is, when you rip you are hearing the data from a better source. A hard drive is more accurate than a CD drive. A CD player reads the disc at 200 to 500 rpm. It only gets one chance to read the data before it moves on to the next bit of data. If the read is incorrect the player has to error correct the data. This is audible. When ripping, the CD drive gets as much time as it needs to slow down and reread the error part until it's as good as it can get. Plus the error correction is better in the ripping program.
What annoys me the most about ripping CDs is that they dont have titles embedded or any information on the album whatsoever.
Musicbrainz and mp3tag really help there but still it is a HUGE pain in the ass.
I’ll look into that because the software I use, Exact Audio Copy will download the information from a database upon ripping your CD to the PC, I’ll see why it’s not an easier process for the burning.
@@mykandrew Yeah if its available it works, and then its great.
But:
1. I still sometimes have to go on the musicbrainz website because the picard software doesnt detect it automatically
2. If its not there you have to photocopy cover, and enter all the titles, artists, albums, and other useless metadata manually, which is just rage inducing work.
Now, after like a few months i finally have a system that works, but holy shit this should not be that difficult.
Some Audio CDs do have CD-Text.
Does Anyburn burn the songs alphabetically or can you choose the order of the playlist? Are the songs gapless? Can you fade out/in?
I have over 1,000 albums (580 GB) in Flac on my Seagate Backup Plus 8TB hub. Using MusicBee for player and stream it directly through bluetooth to my receiver. Works perfect.
Saves buying all the CD-R's and space. I used to burn CD-R and make my own covers in Photoshop, but I found that the CD-R's in time where not playing welll anymore in my cd-player.
It doesn't really make sense to use FLAC with Bluetooth. Bluetooth heavily compresses the audio.
@@estusflask982 it's not bluetooth. It's through wifi
Do you have the data only on that drive??! Is it backed up at all!? What kind of music is it? Genre...
Hi I'm a new subscriber and I like your channel. I am in the process of doing this but through mac which is a little more difficult. I'm not sure its worth the effort as the last time I did it the drive died and I lost it all. It was mp3s though and I did it through iTunes.
Nice video ! Another question , Will Nero will let burn files since it may have copyright rules or any other software operate likely the same ?
I’m not sure what Nero can do I’ve unfortunately never used that software :(
What software do you recommend for burning RUclips audio?
Ty so much
Thanks good video
Hey, I watched your clip with interest. I want to digitize the several thousand CDs I have in my collection - as a long-time DJ I used them to play parties. I still use CDs at home, buy CDs - fu*k streaming like Spotify! In clubs, however, I play from vinyl as well as mp3s.
That's why I'm facing the problem of ripping my CD collection to mp3 320kbps. I would like to speed up the process as much as possible, especially typing song titles is tiring. Do you think the CD ripping program shown in your clip will do the job?
Or can you recommend an alternative program?
Greetings from Berlin :)
What cd device I’m looking for an external one my Plextor got beat up, it was good
How do I get my music mixed cd to rip without indexing? And burn without indexing? Many thx
very cool dude
How can I manually set the cd cover art? I just want to add a jpg or jpeg as the cd cover but dragging the image or right clicking the box doesn't allow for adding an image, it's grayed out.
Is there an appreciable audio improvement going from CD to FLAC then back to CD?
FLAC is a lossless quality file ripped directly from the CD. There won't be any audible improvement.
@@mykandrew So essentially, you're going through this process to make a personalized playlist on CD?
@@Michaelincontext and to backup my music files for my Roon core. I also purchase FLAC online as well.
@@mykandrew Thank you!
First of all, HDTracks is where you should go for your digital Hi-Res audio, it's the preferred choice of a lot of Mastering Engineers like Bob Katz for example, whose mastered / remastered over 600 records.
Second, why would you buy digital tracks but then get them in 16 bit 44.1 khz? Theres literally no benefit of doing that over buying a physical CD of the same bit rate and sampling rate. You'd buy a digital copy if you were buying Hi-Res audio in 24 bit 96 khz or 192 khz. Though that extra depth in quality wouldnt be captured if you transferred it to a CD, unless you used a Super Audio CD, which does support 24/192 khz, unlike a normal CD which is limited to 16/44.1 khz.
By buying CD quality digital files you gain absolutely no benefit whatsoever, but you restrict yourself from being able to sell that music like you could with a used CD, because selling digital files is illegal.
The only reason you'd really ever want to do that is if the CD is out of print and getting it is either crazy expensive or impossible to find. Otherwise, it's completely pointless.
This is cool.
Hehe... Burning Tron. I get it. Nice touch.
Do they have a Mac version. I don’t have a PC. I have burned CD’s on a Mac before.
Need help !
I have a large collection of compilations that exist on cd discs, my library that was on my computer
no longer exist and was removed by who know ? I was using i-tunes for storing and organizing and
all of the music was labeled with the artist and name of the song.
I tried studio 8, hoping the info for each song and artist would show up- wrong!
Any idea's how i can use my existing cd disc's to restore my music library and
place it in data storage unit, where no one other than me can access it ?
Can't you do this with Windows Media Player?
I've been copying my original CDs using EAC and save them as FLAC files. I use Anyburn and save them into Audio CD. I've noticed the volume levels aren't the same, so to solve that, I use Audacity and just volumes of tracks that are a little bit low. However, whenever I I use Anyburn and save them to Audio CD, my CD-R is not readable by conventional CD players. Hope you guys can help me solve the issue, thanks.
hey jw does the metadata from audacity copy over okay?
What speed y burn yr cds.
tryed exact cd copy but it extract only in wav ;(
Oh man, Breaking Benjamin takes me right back to 2008 when I played Halo 3 online with their lead singer. That guy spent a lot of time with his Xbox 360. I even read he toured aorund with two Xboxes in case one of them breaks down.
EAC is great but the artwork is a real pain. Ive asked it to try all the metadata sites but just cant find cover art or sometimes titles. If i use EZ CD Audio Converter it just works no manual art stuff.
Just a little disappointed with it sadly.
I have a question. I recently dug out my old cds and got a used cd player. It sounds amazing and I am having a lot of fun listening to my old cds. The only issue is that my ripped cds wont play. Not a single one. And my store bought cds all play without an issue. I used pedestrian cdrs and ot the fancy ones you have. Is there a shelf life to ripped CDs that doesnt happen with store bought ones?
Yeah eventually if you don’t have the gold archival quality CD-R the dye on the regular CD-r’s fade away :(
What do you use to rip cds I mean does the specs of the pc sound card? Sorry for the noob questions.
As long as you have a CD-ROM or CD Burner you can rip CD's
I cant believe "Evil Angel" is missing from that CD
Please help me Obi-wan ! Thank you, i just find out you too have a problem with EAC burning software since you use another software. I always get error with the cue sheet, i have the manual it says rename whatever but i don’t know ? I just wish i could fix EAC ! Please help me !
Exact Audio Copy has worked ok for me. Sometimes it gives me trouble. Depending on what file format you’re using is how you make the selection at the startup menu in EAC. I always use FLAC and sometimes MP3 so I just select that option.
Thanks !
I'm CD obsessed as well and have a question that has been bugging me. I have in the past had a storage drive crash on me. Promping me to have to begin backing up and storing every cd I own, With over 3k CD's It takes months. That being the case I began backing up to ISO format. Takes 1/5th the time and I dont have to worry about tagging...however I have a problem where most cd's have errors and wont back up, this includes old and newly purchased. Any advice on how to solve this issue?
Forgot to add I am using Nero, Alcohol 120%, Image make, cdrwin(for those insanely complicated discs)
Interesting, ive only had issues with a couple titles. Im using EAC and DBpoweramp. I know it takes a long time but doing ISO just seems more of a hassle imo
@@mykandrew I use those both as well, found that imgburn works fairly well on the tough cd's. However there are still some clear holdouts. Should you tun intona way please make a quick vid about it. Thanks in advance
Doesnt work....compressor gives an error?
In a perfect world, MusicMatch Jukebox wouldn't have sold out to Yahoo and would still be around today with FLAC support.
Agreed
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Which formats will play in my 2007 automobile?
No idea what type of vehicle you have to be able to give you a proper answer. If you Google your vehicle type it should tell you what type of stereo it comes stock with. However, I do recommend upgrading the stereo to an aftermarket higher quality CD player.
@@mykandrew Thanks!
What drive do you use?
I did some reddit research and many people say LG disc drives are superior. I bought one on amazon for $30 recently, but I'm still waiting on it to arrive.
@@LittlePlant888 i decided on LG as well.
EAC is the best, but there have been many problems I left win7 after
I vae just compared EAC vs. WM player, and WMP hast 1% better bitrate (FLAC), maybe is not really noticeable but for an audiophile maybe matters. And also WMP (Windows 10) automatically shearches for covers and titles. I will continue be using WMP then. But thanks for the info anyway...!!!
The Problem With WMP is it don't have cover art for every CD it's a hit and Miss from what i experienced while it does a good Job with Ripping it does lack in the cover art area i have alot of Normal Releases and about 39% has art work while the other half don't it's just a hit and miss.
to rip cds i mostly use cdex. it's a free and easy to use program and it lets me rip a whole cd to one complete file, which is convenient for compilation mixes and albums with tracks that segue into eachother.
We should really come up with a name for that United States/United Kingdom language 😂
How do I pick uncompressed? How do I start ripping? To pay for metadata service you say is 'somewhere.' How do I rip the music CD, you skipped that part.
Yea the guide isnt very good.
How fast is Exact Audio Copy when coping a cd?
Rips in a couple minutes. Very fast
Dbpoweramp CD Ripper program. Rip to uncompressed FLAC. Done.
I really like DBpoweramp, it really doesn't like my apple superdrive though. EAC has its issues. But I go back and forth between the two. Normally when I have an issue with on the other will work 🙃
FLAC is compressed, but LOSSLESS
One can't help but wonder if the picture of that crying child behind you on the wall is not perhaps symbolic of you finding out that physical media is dead.
Do you feel like that child in the painting? It's okay, let it out. This is a safe space. I've been there before when I realized all the money I had sunk into my CD collection and how irrelevant they are now. Fortunately I grabbed exact audio copy and ripped them all to my Plex server so they were still worth the money..... I just had to update thanks to the year 2023....and BEYOND!!
What until millennials get a wind of this. It's going to be "old school" and cool to them. And you know what, they'd be right.
That’s what I’m hoping for
I'm a millenial I grew up with CDs. I think you're referring to Gen Z.
I usually rip and burn cds to enjoy them in the car. I live in South America and you know... there are kids, sometimes you are traveling, you don't want to look for a local station, you pick up a cd, then your kids start yelling, you have to change the cd, you don't get the cover, the cd gets scratched... so, for me the best thing is to keep my cd's at home and have some copies for fun in the car. As you can guess, I have to throw a lot of them away, but the originals stay safe.
lol
There's lots of cool blank CDs out there. I buy those "vinyl"-top discs as well as all-silver, all-gold, black (record side only), all black, LightScribe, and 90-minute CDRs.
There are colored CDs as well, but I have not used those yet.
I've been using a different software though - it's flawless, and no secret 3rd-party junk added at installation, and no obnoxious software that takes over all my system's file associations (including icons), like that stupid Nero always does. My only complaint is that I cannot get it to change burning speed. I have found 10x is the most ideal burning speed - not too slow (a 1-hour disc of tunes takes about 6 mins to burn), but slow and steady enough to not cause errors that result is chirps and skips on playback. I had a great burner that somehow had its burning speed set at 10x, but when it died, my next R/RW drive was a little slower at 8x. Discs take a little longer but sound perfect. Other drives refuse to go lower than 12x, which is a bit too fast and errors often result. I'm thinking it has to do with the drives? The software has its own set of "drivers" and the same driver will get different results based solely on the optical drive used.
I would never use ANY format if it compresses. WAV is the only way to go... well, AIF/AIFF is a good alternative, as it seems to have the same properties of a WAV (lossless, easily edited, but 10x the file size of an MP3 equivalent at 128kbps ; if the MP3 is 4 MB, the WAV of that same track will be 40 MB), except the added bonus of AIF/AIFF is that it can store the metadata in the files (track info, etc), like MP3s do.
That's interesting with the speed. I do buy the same vinyl discs as well. They are really cool. WAV is great if you have the space and time. I do like FLAC because it's close enough to perfect and I can fit hundreds of albums on a smaller drive.
Ripping CDs to FLAC will not make it 24bit... the files will still be 16bit. Ripping it to WAV will also create 16bit files from a CD... ripping a CD to WAV can be done by the windows media player. This makes installing extra programs obsolete.
I like to use iTunes 🤪
yes agreed..In the end all you're doing is saving disc space..And storage is pretty cheap now.
Windows Media Player / iTunes does not offer accurate rips.
you do know wmp can just rip to flac natively right?
Not if you own a Mac. Mac stopped supporting WMP over 10 years ago.
5:23
Though this is true technically, it also depends.
FLAC / ALAC are both lossless just like their uncompressed versions WAV and AIFF, meaning they are bit for bit copies of each other, but FLAC and ALAC are compressed. The reason this is significant is because your computer or phone or whatever has to decompress these compressed files in real time as they are being played back, and if you dont have a great CPU this strain on the CPU along with the other processes its doing can actually create artifacts and change the sound of the track as its being decompressed.
Most people will never be able to hear this but for anyone with a very revealing setup, you probably will hear it if your gear is good enough. Storage space is also crazy cheap now so it shouldnt even be an issue. However if you dont have a dedicated audiophile setup and you are strapped for cash and you cant afford to be buying multi-terabyte hard drives, or you're putting these files on your phone or something which has limited space, then just keep them in FLAC / ALAC, but if you do have a good set up and you can afford storage space, then go with WAV / AIFF
(AIFF being the better of the two because it can store metadata, i.e Artist, Title, Genre, Album, etc, where as WAV can not.)
FYI - I just Ripped a Silverchair - Frogstomp Music CD to .WAV file format and Tagged it with Metadata and it's Album Art.jpg
MEDIA PLAYER RIP TO FLAC FOR FREE PLUS SONG NAMES AND CREATORS
HUH?
not to be pedantic, but you cannot burn a CD. you can burn a CD-R.
But, you used the word pedantic. How can you not be pedantic? I'm cool with pedantic.
Flac is sub par.
FLAC is lossless.
@@estusflask982 ...is lossless...yes, on paper. Use your ears.
Then you might have a faulty media player or playback device.
@@Kiirabu197 No. You've been duped. Just like mofi duped everyone.
@@380stroker My FLAC audio sounds fine.