Originally Posted by
schmidj
Using Burst is dangerous, and defeats the purpose of accuraterip.
With a good CD, both will give the same CRC on a CD not in the database.
If a CD is in the database, and the first rip matches the database, the ripper will stop there, after the first pass on a given track.
If you use burst, and you have a defective CD not in accuraterip database, you'll never know you have a bad rip (until you listen to it and that's kind of two late...) With secure, you'll get several rips, you can configure how many, and they all have to match with the same CRC to get a secure result. Pretty high probability the rip is good, particularly if you rip at varying speed. The only better probability is to compare the CRCs of rips of more than one copy of the CD, which is what Accuraterip does.
I bought dBpoweramp because the previous ripper I used (Winamp) gave me far too many bad rips (mostly from bad CD's, some from fingerprints, even bumping the CD burner while it was ripping) which I'd often find weeks later when finally listening. I've been reripping all that stuff.
Probably 90 percent or more of your CDs will rip perfectly fine in burst. The reason to use secure is to weed out the other ones, at ripping time, so they don't get into your files unknowingly.
If things are taking too long for your taste, consider installing more than one CD reader in your computer (can be via USB, if you use a decent SATA to USB adapter), and multiple instances of the ripper running at the same time. Best to have multiple video screens also. I've had up to 6 instances running simultaneously (three video monitors, two "layers" each, without issue.