Talk:CD Ripping

I'm not sure this Wiki is the right place for this article. I assume the info is meant for Jukebox cabinets, however encouraging people to rip CDs might not be legal. Opinions? Felsir 14:17, 8 March 2006 (EST)

I don't think "legality" is an issue here - creating mp3's of you CD's is completely legal if you own them. Its also a required process if you own an Ipod or similar.

However, I'm not sure this is the best place either. I appreciate the link to jukeboxes (I am building one myself) but there are so many of these guides already availble I feel a summary and a link would be better. Also because there are many ways to skin a cat, and people are not always in agreement. Silver

Yeah, I wasn't sure if the legality really is an issue here, but the article 'feels' out of place to me. If others agree I would make this a candidate for deletion. Felsir 15:02, 8 March 2006 (EST)

Well, I know where I took the sources from, and I'd guess just because it's not all from one place, and modified by myself, it's still parts of a copyrighted work.

I think perhaps just a link to the BYOAC page, if anything.

If it's decided that this should be here, I'd have no problems redoing it myself, since there's some things I'd like to add/change/fix/etc. --DrewKaree

Personally, I see no reason to take this off. CD Ripping is legitimate, though like anything COULD be made illegitimate. So can a baseball bat. --mahuti 21:43, 8 March 2006 (EST)

I'm OK with this being here. I do not want warez links however. saint 22:06, 8 March 2006 (EST)

Well fine if it stays - but I actually think some of the of the info in it is a bit out of date. I am aware of the reasons for recommending the old version of "Exact Audio Copy 0.9 beta 4" over much newer releases (although I've never had issues with the latest versions). However, recommending Lame 3.90.3 stable bundle is probably an attempt to hark back the the "custom DibRom tweaked" version of lame 3.90.3 that was recommended as the 'best' by the folks over at HydrogenAudio. However, the recommended version of lame is now 3.97 beta 2. You can find the most extensive blind ABX tests ever conducted over at HydrogenAudio - these guys take audio encoding *seriously*. NB You would also need to update the settings used by lame as the command line changed a few versions back. All the latest and greatest settings can be found here at HydrogenAudio. --Silver 10:49, 9 March 2006 (EST)

I'll fiddle with this shortly if someone hasn't already. I tend to look at the "Recent Changes" and read from where I last left off to present, so if this has been changed already, disregard this. I'll try to scope out the newest changes so it's up-to-date, but I may just start with the quick and dirty rewrite of the old one. --DrewKaree

Fixed

Okay, all the HTML should be removed now, and I've cleaned it up and there should be no copyright issues with this whatsoever now.

--DrewKaree

Nice job on cleaning it up - looks great. I'd still recommend that you stick a link to the Hydrogenaudio thread I linked in the above comment on the Lame encoding bit - version 3.90.3 has been significantly superseeded by later versions which give equivalent or superior quality and a huge encoding speed increase - they specifically recommend it over version 3.90.3. --Silver 17:29, 12 March 2006 (EST)