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Originally posted by sedluk:
I rip all of my CD`s with Windows Media Player. It`s free so you might be inclined to pay more thinking you`ll get better software. I rip the disk into lossless WMA files.
You can do more for less. Windows Media Player will not get all of the correct samples off the disc 100% of the time. No 1x ripper will.

A lot a people, myself included, use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) which is free and will do about as good a job as is possible and rip to uncompressed WAV. You can do further format conversion from there if you wish.

EAC performs multiple re-reads of the disc, much like Meridian's DVD-ROM-based players, to ensure it gets every sample correctly off the disc. And if it doesn't, it has proper error correction algorithms.


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