New member and basic ripping set up.

[garym]

Re: New member and basic ripping set up.

Conversion is just as easy as reripping. Review the help info on conversion then post any questions you have.

[Youngstu]

Re: New member and basic ripping set up.

Cheers for the reply Gary.
Is it easy to carry out the conversion?
Im trying to make it as easy as possible with my limited knowledge. I liked the way that ripping it twice created the two albums in flac and mp3 and opening wmp, if only to transfer it to my phone showed me two seperate album arts for said album. One marked flac and the other mp3.
Simple enough for my brain to handle...haha
Would this be the same using the conversion tool and then using foobar for transferring files to my devices?
Thanks again.

[garym]

Re: New member and basic ripping set up.

Do not rip twice. Just use the dbpa converter application to convert your flac files to mp3. And I would not let WMP touch my files. The program is turned off on all my windows computers. Look into foobar2000 mobile.

[Youngstu]

Hi,
Just recently bought dbpa with the intention of ripping my cd collection. My simple process is to use dbpa to rip each cd to flac (for archive purposes and for possible hard drive hifi set up in the future and dedicated portable player) and 320 mp3 (for tablet, phone etc)
I'm not planning on playing anything via my laptop, it's just a tool for the ripping process, storage and distribution to other devices.
My queries are - best ripping process?
- best software for simple transfer of albums to devices?
So far I tried simply ripping the cd twice which worked well for me and there were no issues.
I also tried setting up dbpa to do the flac and mp3 rip at the same time but i found when I tried this that often the basic tag info would differ. For example, part of album name missing or genres being different etc
I know another option would be to rip to flac and transfer to mp3.
With me having more spare time than technical knowledge...haa....I'm considering just ripping twice.
What are peoples thoughts on that?
I read that people like foobar if they are listening to music using the laptop and the wmp gets a bit of a bashing.
I will be using an app called Rocketplayer on my phone and tablet and only using the laptop for transfer so would wmp be ok for the simple process of clicking and dragging albums as long as I disable any other actions on it?
Apologies for the length of message and basic knowledge. I'll get there hopefully with some good help on here.
Cheers