Best way to rip music to AAC?
Is there any difference in sound quality if I rip directly from CD to AAC or from WAV to AAC?
Any advice is be greatly appreciated.
[438 byte] By [Whitty] at [2007-11-9 15:43:54] 
I am new to the world of mp3 music. I recently bought a 30g iPod and am planning to save my music to AAC with iTunes. I ripped a couple CDs with EAC to WAV and converted them to 128kps AAC with iTunes but to simplify things I was thinking about ripping straight from the CD with iTunes.
Is there any difference in sound quality if I rip directly from CD to AAC or from WAV to AAC?
Any advice is be greatly appreciated.
# 1 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
Hi - welcome to the lounge.You don't have to convert at all. iTunes rip directly into AAC from cd's.
Opinions differ on which format offers best quality so the best person to judge is yourself. Simply rip the same song in two difft formats and compare.
I rip in 160 bps AAC using iTunes.
Check this area of the forum to see what others think.
Alicia
ginalee at 2007-11-15 17:40:32 >
# 2 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
I was thinking about ripping straight from the CD with iTunes.Is there any difference in sound quality if I rip directly from CD to AAC or from WAV to AAC? There may be. The advantage of EAC is that it double-checks the rips to make sure there are no errors, and if there are, it fixes them where possible. I don't think any other ripper does this as reliably - so you -might- compromise your rips slightly by using iTunes instead. This is especially true if your discs are at all dusty or scratched.
Sam Williams at 2007-11-15 17:41:32 >
# 3 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
You don't get secure ripping if you use iTunes. If your CDROM is very good it won't matter. Otherwise it may. Try it and see.One option is to get Nero and then use it's encoder with EAC. Plus you get VBR support with Nero.
saratoga at 2007-11-15 17:42:32 >
# 4 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
Thanks for all your input. I will try out some options. Although EAC performs secure rips it doesn't tag well so I was investigating ripping directly from iTunes using CDDB saving annoying manual tagging.:)
Whitty at 2007-11-15 17:43:37 >
# 5 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
Nero is even easier. Also, nero gives you more control of titling your fileschurnopol at 2007-11-15 17:44:36 >
# 6 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
I didn't even know you could rip songs w/ Nero...boy do I feel dumb ...I should try that.Usually I use itunes to rip directly to 192 AAC, but some CD's I find rip unusually slow. Like .5-.8x, and then my PC will end up rebooting by itself!!!
Maybe I'll try ripping it to a WAV using another program, then converting to AAC in itunes.
styles at 2007-11-15 17:45:35 >
# 7 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
Originally posted by saratoga You don't get secure ripping if you use iTunes. If your CDROM is very good it won't matter. Otherwise it may. Try it and see.
One option is to get Nero and then use it's encoder with EAC. Plus you get VBR support with Nero.
So just for clarification, your using EAC to rip the CD to a WAV file, and then using the Nero encoder to change the file to AAC?
EAC=Exact Audio Copy?
I just found 1 freeware in it was released last year, so I wasn't sure if it was the same.
Thanks for your help guys!
styles at 2007-11-15 17:46:36 >
# 8 Re: Best way to rip music to AAC?
EAC does stand for Exact Audio Copy. Version 0.9b4 is known to work well... Good luck :)Sam Williams at 2007-11-15 17:47:39 >
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