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Modernize My Spins

nomisxid — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:30:14 -0800

Best place to get some vinyl ripped to electronic format, in Seattle? I've got a bunch of LPs that I'd like to get converted into an electronic form of some sort. I'd prefer someone local, so I can avoid shipping the vinyl half-way-cross the country and back. Anyone know of a reliable service in Seattle?

Ideally, I'm looking for someone who will split albums into tracks, and can scan the original 12" cover art.

External sound card for laptop. Recommendations wanted!

watson415 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:55:45 -0800

External sound card for laptop. Recommendations wanted! Application: Ripping vinyl records to .WAV and MP3. I have a good (old) turntable. A good (new) RIAA equalized preamp and plugs to go into a sound card. Works great on my desktop, but I want to use it with my Dell/XP laptop. I tried it in the audio in (laptop sound card) but it clipped or...? otherwise sounded like crap. No knobs to tune it either. I'm looking for a moderately priced audio in (from the preamp) to USB that and associated drivers. Two channels are all that are necessary. A mic would be nice, but not req'd.

The main thing that I want to know is how to capture the best signal. These are rare records (1950s jazz) and I'm going to sell them after I rip them. The PolderbiTs software that I use has good pop and crackle filters, but I need to rip at a DVD quality sampling rate for those features to work well. I'll compress later.

Does a USB bus provide the bandwidth to achieve such a throughput? I'd consider a USB turntable, but the one I have is probably better than what I could get for the $40-$80 that I expect to pay for the audio/USB converter (unless convinced otherwise :)

Creating new CDs from old CD tracks -- how not to lose quality? (OS X)

deeper red — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:20:47 -0800

How do I create my own CDs from existing CD tracks, without losing quality on OS X? It seems iTunes will let me rip to WAV but will it then burn back to CD in the same quality? I don't want to go through any encoding/decoding stage.

How do I copy a DVD movie to DVD-R on a Mac?

rentalkarma — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:26:40 -0800

MacFilter: Mac DVD copying on the ~~cheap~~ free? I'm a Mac user now. Hooray!

I want to be able to backup DVDs that I own. (So this is legal, see?) On Windows, I'd use DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink. The first gets rid of the copy protection, the second squeezes the DVD image down to 4.3GB, the size of a blank DVD.

It's a painless process, and it's free. My goal is to play a copied DVD in ANY player I run across, not just some fancy smancy iPod or XBOX or whatever.

On Mac, I've found MacTheRipper (free) for stripping the copy protection. If the resulting DVD is small enough, I can burn it to a DVD with Burn (free). It plays on any player, and makes me happy.

However, if the DVD is greater than 4.3 GB, I've been unable to find any FREE DVDShink equivilant software for the Mac.

Does such an animal exist?

I keep seeing Handbrake appear in discussion threads, but Handbrake doesn't handle VOBs and VIDEO_TS folders and the like.

Thoughts? Or have Apple fanboys been lying to me all this time?

DVD ripping with both menus and compression

leakymem — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:50:55 -0800

I need a way to rip DVDs to a hard drive whilst maintaining menu structure and picture quality, but also compressing the data. Something like the DVD-like features offered by DivX Author but with an automated front end to convert DVD menus to DivX menus My flatmate is moving away to study film production for a year and would like to take as much of her DVD collection with her as possible without actually having to lug the disks along. We've been ripping the disks to a 500 gig USB drive using Mac The Ripper, but her collection is large and the drive is filling up fast.

Given how far video codecs have come since the initial release of DVDs, it seems like an awful waste of storage, but any tools I've found that rip DVDs to modern video codecs are only for converting the main feature. Given my flatmate's line of study, special features and directors commentary are a must-have.

She's got a Powerbook G4, so the resultant files must be playable on that. I have access to Ubuntu, Leopard and XP Pro, so the conversion tool can run on pretty much anything. Free would be nice, but anywhere up to $100 is probably acceptable.

Thanks in advance.

DVD ripping on linux

mzurer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:04:44 -0800

What do I use on Ubuntu to do exactly what Mac the Ripper does on Mac? For all my attempts I can't seem to find an answer for this. I want to rip only. I do not want to compress to a smaller size, I do not want to change format.

M3U CUE LOG WTF?

hazyspring — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:09:17 -0800

Please explain to me what a cue, m3u, and log file are in layman's terms. (In regards to audio files.) I just starting ripping a few cds using EAC.

Why are these files useful and also, if I have FLAC files that include these 3 files and if I convert the FLAC to a different format, are these old files still useful?

Why do the sound and video sometimes get out of synch when ripping DVDs?

psmealey — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:31:33 -0800

When ripping some DVDs to my hard drive, why do the sound and video get out of synch? I generally use Mac the Ripper for doing this, and yes, I only do this for DVD's that I own. My question is that for some DVDs (particularly "Almost Famous", and "Woodstock: the Movie"), the audio gets out of synch with the video by several seconds. For other DVDs ("Rock Star", "24 Hour Party People"), it works just fine. Why does this happen, and is there anything that can be done to adjust for it?

Ripping and listening to my CD collection

GernBlandston — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:14:51 -0800

I'd like to rip my CD collection and be able to listen to them when I'm not at my computer. I want to be able to listen to them in the living room or kitchen. I've got several hundred CDs. And I don't want to spend a ton of money. So I've got a couple questions:
1. Does Windows Media Player, set to (WAV) lossless do a decent job? I like how it catalogs the CDs on my computer at the same time, and I don't know if it's worth going with FLAC, EAC, etc

2. Is there a better way to store them than on my harddrive? Are there inexpensive players for this kind of thing?

3. If I store on my computer, how can I setup speakers off of my computer so that I can wire them around the house? Can I buy some kind of card or amp or whatever a regular stereo uses?

Thanks!

Maybe the problem is that the world CAN'T listen.

punchdrunkhistory — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:24:13 -0800

Why won't this CD rip properly? 12 out of 18 songs are completely garbled, regardless of which program I try to use. I've been trying to rip the Smiths' "The World Won't Listen" to my computer for about three weeks now, and it always fails. The first four and last two tracks are fine, but 'Shakespeare's Sister' through 'You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby' are garbled completely -- each song is at the proper running length, but is made up entirely of approximately five-second bits and pieces of other tracks from the album. Occasionally it plays the correct song for about fifteen seconds, and then returns to the mishmash.

This has happened no matter what program I use. At first I used solely iTunes to rip and play the tracks, but I've had the same results ripping in CDex and playing in foobar2000. The CD plays fine in regular CD players, and is in no way scratched. I get bad results when I try to simply play it as an audio CD through iTunes as well.

I don't believe that the CD is copy-protected. I purchased it new from a record store in Omaha, but it appears to be an Australian import -- if it matters, the inner bit on the underside of the CD reads "D.A.T.A. IFPIL 311 4509918982 D E1" (D.A.T.A. apparently stands for "Digital Audio Technologies Australia).

This hasn't happened with any other CDs I've ripped -- only this one, so I don't think it's a problem with the drive. Thanks!

Let 'er rip. Um, I mean, let me rip.

jbickers — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:53:40 -0800

What's the easiest, cheapest, quickest way to move content from a DVD to individual files on a hard drive? I've acquired a number of anime DVD box sets, and want to be able to view them on my laptop, on the go - and I don't want to lug the discs around.

What I really want is to be able to rip each of them to individual AVI, MPEG, whatever files, one per episode. Don't care about menus or special features, just want to be able to watch the episodes.

I've tried DVD Shrink, but it appears to be suited at making copies of the full disc (menus and all). I've looked at a few other ripping tools, but they all make my head hurt.

Is there a simple, open-source (i.e. free), trusted way to get individual episodes off a DVD and onto the hard drive? It would be especially nice if there were a preference that allowed me to adjust the quality to fiddle with file size.

How do I get everything off of a CD?

reventlov — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:39:53 -0800

I want to make sure that the next time I rip my CD collection is the last time. What should I know? I want to rip all information that I possibly can from my CD collection--CD TEXT, CD+G, ISRC codes, data tracks/sessions, audio tracks, audio in the space before track 1, audio in the gaps between tracks, and index marks. Am I missing anything? And if I am, is there a tool available for Linux that will let me read it?

How to split a.iso into 2 .iso?

wile e — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:34:45 -0800

Can you split an .iso (DVD burn image) file in two? I've been ripping all of my Netflix movies into .iso files before realizing that my burning software (Nero burning rom) doesn't split an image file (.iso) that is larger than 4.7gig into two smaller files. All of these movies require dual layer blank DVDs, but since I have a 100 pack of blank DVDs I would like to try to see if I could split the movies to 2 different discs rather than buy the larger blanks. That was my full question. Any help is appreciated!

Turn DVD into separate clips

IZ — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:31:58 -0800

DVD Rip Filter: I want to rip several movie clips of a DVD and convert them into separate mpeg files. Please help me out. I would like to be able to decide where I cut the separate takes to be converted. It will be short sample clips to put on a website, I'm not talking complete chapters here. I would like to know which piece of freeware you recommend to do this fast and easy. Thanks.

Why can't I rip mp3s?

Ash3000 — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:35:43 -0800

For some reason, when I try to rip/import anything off a CD, all the audio on my laptop slows down to a choppy crawl. In the past few weeks, I've noticed that any time I try to rip something off a CD, be it with iTunes or any other program, the audio on anything else playing turns into an indecipherably slow and choppy crawl, be it an mp3, a website or whatever. I use a Toshiba Satellite. Any obvious culprits?

Best DVD ripper for Windows?

gnutron — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:11:55 -0800

Please recommend the easiest-to-use DVD ripping/burning software for Windows.... I just got myself a new compooter with a DVD writer. I'd like to make simple backup copies of my DVDs as easily as possible. The DVD drive is the only disc drive, so I'd need to rip the disc to the hard drive, and then burn.

I'd prefer a program that didn't require me to install random media players and video editing software that I'll never use. I'm willing to pay about $0 - $50.

I know this has been discussed here before, but many of the previous questions are years old, and with the fluctuating legality of this type of software, I have no idea how to discern what programs are still viable and worthwhile.

Previous answers seem to suggest 'DVD X Copy' might be the software I'm looking for. Any experience with this?

How to rip audio only from a dvd.

heartquake — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:52:44 -0800

How to rip audio only from a dvd. I'm not asking for myself because I don't think I'm smart enough to really understand any of this.

One of my bosses is a bit of an audio snob and he wants to know if there is a way to rip audio (to a pc) only from a dvd while preserving it in the highest quality possible. And further to that quality issue, is .wav the way to go or no?

Also, I'm aware of the legal implications of movie-ripping and that's not a problem.

I'm not sure if it matters but these are concert dvd's.

Re-ripping audio CDs

apple scruff — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:04:58 -0800

Ripping tracks from a audio CD-R...what bitrate to use? I have a bunch of music CDs I burned in the past that I would like to rip back to my computer. My problem is that I don't know what bitrate they originally were in. All of them are at least 128, but that is all I know. Since I burned them as albums, every song on each CD should have the same bitrate, but each CD varies. Is there a simple way to find out? The reason I would like to know is because I'd like to re-rip the CDs at the highest bitrate possible without compromising the song quality. I also use Nero generally for these kinds of tasks, if you know how I could do it with that. Also, if there's something wrong with my line of reasoning please let me know, I am not too familiar with bitrate and quality in general.

Ripping Vinyl in OS X

unSane — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:58:33 -0800

I want to rip a bunch of old vinyl LPs. I have a nice Dual turntable which I got off eBay, and a couple of USB audio interfaces (an M-Audio Audiophile USB and an Emagic A26) which plug into a G4 Powerbook. I have Logic and Garageband. Do I need anything else? How do I go about applying the RIAA curve given my set-up? Would I be better off getting a real pre-amp? What are the cheapest options?

Ripping != Playing ?

cyrusdogstar — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:58:43 -0800

Why do some PC game CDs and DVDs play and install just fine on my machine, but absolutely refuse to be backed up? I'm not entirely sure it's due to actual copy protection schemes. I've tried using every piece of software I can get my grubby paws on, including Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, a WinXP PowerToy that copies optical discs, and even good old 'dd' on my PowerBook. None of them work--they all report read errors almost right away; attempts to override these errors don't seem to do much good.

The discs themselves are in pristine condition and play/install perfectly on the same machine, which is why I am baffled about this apparent difference in the way the OS and the ripping apps are reading them.

I haven't been able to find any info about copy protection on the specific games in question (Civilization IV, realMyst are the two I'm mostly futzing with) and I could swear that we were past that point in terms of backing up discs--e.g., I remember years ago hearing of Software X that could make a perfect bit-for-bit copy of a disc and thus get around copy protection. Plus, I would assume that out of the games I have successfully imaged without problems (about ten or so) at least a few would have had the same copy protection as is on the ones which don't work.

While it's not entirely relevant, I will note that I load the images that do work, with tools such as Alcohol and Daemon-Tools--the whole point of this exercise in frustration is to "iTunes my games" such that I don't have to swap discs every time I want to stop playing Game X and play Game Y instead. And without nasty, possibly virus-laden "crackz" and hacked EXE files.

matching data to digital music

Mr T — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:56:42 -0800

I'm currently listening to track 09. It's good. how do I find out name of the artist? I'm asking a general question here, I have a dozen track 09s. When I pop a CD into iTunes it gets it's info for me online. Is there any way to do that for individual tracks? Since it's digital isn't there a way to do a look up?

naming audio files automatically?

apple scruff — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:20:27 -0800

I have a large collection of bootlegs I'd like to rip to my computer, but I don't want to manually rename all the files. Many of the bootlegs have info available on freedb, but for those that aren't, I'm hoping there is some sort of program out there that will let me import a text file or csv or something with the track names in it and will rename the specific files on my computer according to the content of that file.

The main program I use is Tag & Rename, but I haven't found that functionality in that program. If there's any program or hack or ANYTHING that will let me do this I will be eternally grateful.

Anyone use or know a LP Ripping Service?

Marky — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:47:26 -0800

I've never had great results ripping vinyl. I still have my 1980 vintage Pioneer turntable, and a receiver that has phono inputs, but the files never sound that good, and noise filtering didn't do much. Also, I really only need to rip about 3-4 albums. While I'm sure the gods of karma will arrange for some to finally be released on CD or iTunes just after I go to the hassle of copying, I'm also sure 2 will never be "officially" released. Anyone have a vinyl ripping service they would recommend?

Question number 15069

Lockeownzj00 — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:04:06 -0800

We were rearranging the shelves in my house today, and we found a bunch of old tapes from my
Dad's friends from when he lived in Spain (he was born there, as was I). His friends mixed
a bunch of bands together to make this very cool-sounding tape, and the thought struck me: Why not
rip this? (edit: also found bunch of old tapes my brother made of a punk radio station. woot!)

Of course, I lack the knowledge required.

So my question essentially is: what sort of process, programs, and materials is one required to
go through to convert these tapes to mp3? Would the machine I'd have to buy also double as a
tape-pl-ayer itself? What about records? I've been wanting a record player for a while, and I've
been wanting to rip some records as well. Are there record-rippers which double as players? Are
there record/tape player/rippers all combined into one machine? How complicated is this process?
How expensive does it have to be? I don't want to end up with really badly ripped files, but I
don't want studio equipment, either. Basically, what do I have to go through to get good
sounding, 192-320 kbps mp3s from my tapes and records that I could then distribute via
BitTorrent? Thanks.

Question number 14883

glibhamdreck — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:31:11 -0800

DVD Ripping: I need someone to talk to me like I’m seven. [+}