CD burning / ripping software?

[brennser]

Ok, so I have a new pc and am just wondering what CD burning / ripping software people out there like to use. I've been using Musicmatch for 4 or 5 years now but am curious if there are other, better alternatives.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by brennser:
  Ok, so I have a new pc and am just wondering what CD burning / ripping software people out there like to use. I've been using Musicmatch for 4 or 5 years now but am curious if there are other, better alternatives.

itunes for the pc

[chaz]

I hate hate hate music match.  I use Itunes now, but before that came out for pc I used a program called dBPowerAMP Music Converter.  Get it  here .

[Bags]

chaz, I have a friend who has an ipod and uses musicmatch on his p.c.  He doesn't know what changing to iTunes might offer.  Can you explain to me the benefits?

[Moon Mullen]

itunes is much easier to manage than Musicmatch, and the sound quality is far superior. It's also freeware.

[markie]

itunes also lets you listen to the radio...
 
 Woxy
 Virgin
 Kexp
 
 are all there.
 
 Plus it works really well with the ipod.......

[Bags]

How is the sound quality better?  And is there more/better functionality?  I've heard the "easier to manage" phrase, but how is Musicmatch hard to manage?
 
 (I'm not arguing or disbelieving -- looking for the reasoning to pass on).

[brennser]

Plus it works really well with the ipod.......  

but does it work with other mp3 players....sacrilege I know markie

[vansmack]

I use  Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer to mix the tunes (I can't thank Kosmo enough for this software tip!!!).  It allows me to fade tracks, adjust volumes and play tidbits in the middle of songs.
 
 And Roxio Easy CD Creator to burn the mixes, although Acoustica makes burning software that plugs into the mixer, I've never bought it because I have great success with Roxio.  Roxio makes the burning software that most Media Libraries use, including Napster and WIndows Media Player.  I'm not sure about Real Audio or MusicMatch though.  Roxio allows me to track at once as well, which is required when fading between tunes.  They also have a Disc copier that I use when copying one CD to another.
 
 If I'm just copying a CD track for track out of my digital library I use Windows Media player 9.0 because it's simple.

[markie]

Originally posted by brennser:
   

Plus it works really well with the ipod.......  

but does it work with other mp3 players [/b]

there are other Mp3 players?

[kosmo vinyl]

there are many that say that
  Exact Audio Copy is the only way to go for PCs for ripping.  Besure to use the LAME encoder for creating MP3.

[markie]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   It allows me to fade tracks, adjust volumes

itunes lets you fade tracks and automatically adjusts the volume, if you wish.

[Bags]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
   

Plus it works really well with the ipod.......  

but does it work with other mp3 players [/b]

there are other Mp3 players? [/b]

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[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
   It allows me to fade tracks, adjust volumes

itunes lets you fade tracks and automatically adjusts the volume, if you wish. [/b]

for the purposes of burning? acoustica is like jam for osx, it allows you to create a sequence in order to burn cds. i use to create seamless mixes.  i'd being using the acoustica sw but all off my windoze boxes are too old to take full advantage of it.  jam is a mighty fine piece of sw though...

[Justin Tonation]

Originally posted by brennser:
  Ok, so I have a new pc and am just wondering what CD burning / ripping software people out there like to use. I've been using Musicmatch for 4 or 5 years now but am curious if there are other, better alternatives.

Two words:  Golden Hawk. Everything else is a toy.