Rip CD to MP2 and WMA in one read

[Unregistered]

I have several hundred CDs that I need to rip into both MP2 and WMA formats. I'd like to avoid having to read every CD twice.

One option would be to rip to one format, then convert the resulting files to the other format. But this means using a lossy format as the source for another lossy format, so I don't want to do this.

Another option is to rip to a lossless format, then convert to the lossy formats. I tried this using WAV, but I ended up with no ID tags in the MP2 and WMA files. Is there a way to do this WAV and still have ID tags in the final files? Is there another format that I could use instead of WAV that would allow the tags to propagate? Alternatively, is there an easy way to insert the tags after the fact?

I saw Razgo's explanation of how to do two rips in parallel, but that method still reads the CD twice. In fact, it seems to be slower than ripping twice because of all of the seeking that happens. Also, I couldn't get the second rip to put ID tags in the output files.

Any ideas on how to do this? If I'm missing something obvious, please enlighten me!

Thanks,

-- ctl

[RossRoy]

You could rip to Monkey Audio or FLAC, you can get them in Codec Central and then start 2 instances of DMC to convert from Monkey/FLAC to MP3 and WMA at the same time.

Monkey Audio and FLAC both support tags so you would still have your tags.

[Spoons]

that would be my suggestion also. rip to flac or monkey first.

[Unregistered]

Works great!

This is working quite well for me. I have two machines ripping into APE format. A third machine, running a little C# program that I wrote, picks up the APE files from the first two machines and uses dMC scripting to convert them into MP2 and WMA formats. The tags come through just fine. Another program that I wrote then copies the MP2 files into an Arrakis jukebox. Meanwhile, I'm listening to the WMA versions with dbPowerAMP.

Thanks for your help.

-- ctl

You could rip to Monkey Audio or FLAC, you can get them in Codec Central and then start 2 instances of DMC to convert from Monkey/FLAC to MP3 and WMA at the same time.

Monkey Audio and FLAC both support tags so you would still have your tags.

[RossRoy]

Glad to hear the solution worked :D