Best Approach Rip vs Convert

[bubbatriad]

I currently have about 40 gig of music in WMA format in the cloud. I would like to convert everything to FLAC Lossless. How much of a difference in quality will I experience if I rip all of the music from original CDs into FLAC versus convert the WMA to FLAC? I ripped original music using Windows...

[Z-Lemur]

Hi Spoon, I believe there is a bug in AccurateRip for discs ripped with varying pre-emphasis.

After the last update, my CD with a mix of tracks with and without pre-emphasis ripped perfectly. However, when having AccurateRip scan my collection, this is what comes up:


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[AcB]

I use an external DVD burner to rip my CDs (secure mode with accurate ripping). It's a Verbatim Slim Line external DVD burner that cost about €40.00.

I always get 100% accurate ripping results in dBpoweramp. Does this automatically mean I've gotten the best possible sound quality...

[roland67]

Hi, I have just replaced my QNAP 212 with a new TS 233. I put the current hard drives in which only are for music storage & setting it with online help from QNAP , all good. My problem is this burning a cd is now just going to my desktop & not directly to new 233 & 2nd problem is when I...

[PeterG]

The feature of swapping artist name and title always works for all tracks, not only for the selected.
I experienced this working on a compilation where only a few tracks needed this swap, which I had to correct manually.
Would be nice if this could be corrected in a future update.

[honujo]

I want buy one more Personal Reference license for my desktop PC.
I bought the first one on Nov 11, this month.
How can I buy it? Or is there another good way to buy? (Upgrading to Family pack?? )
I have 2 PCs in my home. Can you tell me how to buy it?

Thanks,

[Marty Bender]

Is there a way to permanently set normalization and have it automatically applied on every ripped song?
I'm wanting to have it set at -1db...

[clubsceneuk2]

Hi all.
As the header says when I rip cd’s, if they are multi artist I can get the tag to do the a feat b but when I look at the artis information it shows a\\b and I want to correct this.
What do I need to add to my set to allow me to remove the \\ and just have Gerry and The pacemakers...

[AcB]

As a new dBpoweramp user, I am confused about the Burst mode option.

As I understand it, Burst mode can be combined with AccurateRip?

If I rip a CD with that combination, and the AccurateRip result is good, what is the point of Secure mode, which only takes longer?
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[AcB]

I am a new dbPoweramp user, so this may be a question that has been asked before: by default, there is no DSP setting/action set in the ripper. I have already ripped a number of CDs without a DSP setting. Is it necessary to set a DSP action at all, or can you rip without DSP and still achieve the same...

[Trainguy]

I've got a few hundred CDs I'm trying to rip and every time I put in a new cd with no meta data, its keeps trying to retrieve the CD-ISRC. This is very annoying because it takes an extra 30 seconds per CD to wait for it to complete retrieval of the CD-ISRC which these CDs dont have. I don't have the...

[Eric Seaberg]

This has been going on for quite a while. We just purchased extensions for Mac and Windows versions and upon re-entering the registration code, get the message "Could not verify order number. Please try again later". This is why I even ordered an extension, hoping the problem would go away,...

[Buck Swope]

The naming property for encoder extension doesn't seem to be functioning correctly in the music converter/batch converter after updating to Reference (R2025-11-12).

This naming string, for example…

[extension]\[TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][TRIMFIRSTFOLDER][origpath][][][]\[

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[HamishGill83]

Hi there,
Some years ago, I was running the cd ripper very effectively. I since moved to streaming services, but am now moving back to ripping cds.
I dug out some instructions a friend of mine gave me which included the following:

[IFCOMP]Various Artists\[album]\[IFMULTI]\Disc[disc][]\[track]...

[Acer721]

Would love the ability to select which version of LAME i prefer to use. example, if I could select 3.98, 3.99, 3.100, 3.101 etc.