How to Rip Your Music CDs to FLAC in 2023

In this video, I continue my journey in the world of CDs. I was curious how to RIP a CD in the world of streaming. I found an easy, streamlined process using Exact Audio Copy to rip your CD and burn a CD-R using AnyBurn.

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[mister]

O MY GOD. you just gave me the best idea ever. at first in just wanted to rip my cd's but now i actually want to burn them on vinly cd's. like you did

[pepepepinazo]

My truck has an OEM Alpine stereo, and I really like how it sounds.
It doesn't have any sort of headphone jack, and the cassette deck is broken.
It's got a 6 CD changer tho, so I've been using that but haven't got many CDs left.
This definitely helps!

[jamesbalentine]

I like dbPowerAmp for ripping CDs. If it has problems reading the CD, it let’s you know. I buy lots of used CDS, and I was surprised by how many of them had problems. BTW, FLAC is a lossless codec, so the playback of the FLAC file should be as good as the file on the CD, ceteris paribus. I use Apple Lossless, because I use an old version of ITunes to play my tunes.

[DVLTuber]

I have over 1, 000 albums (580 GB) in Flac on my Seagate Backup Plus 8TB hub. Using MusicBee for player and stream it directly through bluetooth to my receiver. Works perfect.
Saves buying all the CD-R's and space. I used to burn CD-R and make my own covers in Photoshop, but I found that the CD-R's in time where not playing welll anymore in my cd-player.

[weightupmountainguy]

I love the passion man. Thank you for this.

[DrE]

Is there an appreciable audio improvement going from CD to FLAC then back to CD?

[kartoffelbrei]

What annoys me the most about ripping CDs is that they dont have titles embedded or any information on the album whatsoever.
Musicbrainz and mp3tag really help there but still it is a HUGE pain in the ass.

[mertonnephake]

I’m rather surprised that the burning feature in EAC still works for you. I used it in the past as it’s offered setting the writing offset of the drive for audio CD’s unlike Nero, for example. But a few years later, when I needed to burn a CD after a long time, I was able to burn only in an external drive connected through a USB port, several windows with a writing error popped up when I tried an internal drive. I was told that maybe EAC does not support SATA drives for writing (only ATA), actually it worked flawlessly when we still used older ATA drives, so I thought that might be the issue. However, now I have just external drives (two DVD writers, a DVD/BD combo and a BD writer) and none of them can be used for burning in EAC, I also tried to change all the settings there and nothing helped, it’s really weird.

[cheezman]

This is awesome! I love the vinyl style CD-Rs. I'm definitely getting some.
And I hadn't thought of making custom Greatest Hits albums. Very cool idea

[marting]

This is amazing man! Thanks for sharing!

[pc]

I haven't found that program for Linux but have been able to use other programs that work well. KB3 is one of them. A good amount of vintage music such as big band is showing up on hi rez audio sellers in FLAC format including the one you mentioned. I have to sub!

[BlackieNuff]

There's lots of cool blank CDs out there. I buy those "vinyl"-top discs as well as all-silver, all-gold, black (record side only), all black, LightScribe, and 90-minute CDRs.
There are colored CDs as well, but I have not used those yet.

I've been using a different software though - it's flawless, and no secret 3rd-party junk added at installation, and no obnoxious software that takes over all my system's file associations (including icons), like that stupid Nero always does. My only complaint is that I cannot get it to change burning speed. I have found 10x is the most ideal burning speed - not too slow (a 1-hour disc of tunes takes about 6 mins to burn), but slow and steady enough to not cause errors that result is chirps and skips on playback. I had a great burner that somehow had its burning speed set at 10x, but when it died, my next R/RW drive was a little slower at 8x. Discs take a little longer but sound perfect. Other drives refuse to go lower than 12x, which is a bit too fast and errors often result. I'm thinking it has to do with the drives? The software has its own set of "drivers" and the same driver will get different results based solely on the optical drive used.

I would never use ANY format if it compresses. WAV is the only way to go... well, AIF/AIFF is a good alternative, as it seems to have the same properties of a WAV (lossless, easily edited, but 10x the file size of an MP3 equivalent at 128kbps ; if the MP3 is 4 MB, the WAV of that same track will be 40 MB), except the added bonus of AIF/AIFF is that it can store the metadata in the files (track info, etc), like MP3s do.

[CollosalTrollge]

EAC is great but the artwork is a real pain. Ive asked it to try all the metadata sites but just cant find cover art or sometimes titles. If i use EZ CD Audio Converter it just works no manual art stuff.
Just a little disappointed with it sadly.

[BxrHavik]

First of all, HDTracks is where you should go for your digital Hi-Res audio, it's the preferred choice of a lot of Mastering Engineers like Bob Katz for example, whose mastered / remastered over 600 records.

Second, why would you buy digital tracks but then get them in 16 bit 44.1 khz? Theres literally no benefit of doing that over buying a physical CD of the same bit rate and sampling rate. You'd buy a digital copy if you were buying Hi-Res audio in 24 bit 96 khz or 192 khz. Though that extra depth in quality wouldnt be captured if you transferred it to a CD, unless you used a Super Audio CD, which does support 24/192 khz, unlike a normal CD which is limited to 16/44.1 khz.

By buying CD quality digital files you gain absolutely no benefit whatsoever, but you restrict yourself from being able to sell that music like you could with a used CD, because selling digital files is illegal.

The only reason you'd really ever want to do that is if the CD is out of print and getting it is either crazy expensive or impossible to find. Otherwise, it's completely pointless.

[c_b]

Which formats will play in my 2007 automobile?

[lungotevere]

Thank you for the great presentation!!!

[coolkidmike]

What's the audio that you use in you're intro from? I know it's from the opening sequence of a game, but I just can't figure out where it's from.

[flavormod]

What software do you recommend for burning YouTube audio?

[matronix]

Nice video ! Another question, Will Nero will let burn files since it may have copyright rules or any other software operate likely the same ?

[rinzler]

woah didnt expect tron reconfigured to be the album in your hand lol