Ripping software for 2014

I continue to use basic Windows Media player to .wav. Have ripped several thousand CDs this way over last few years.

I continue to prefer to use .wav. Just make sure tags are good prior to ripping. I recently found an inexpensive program that can edit .wav metadata/tags when needed, but always better to get this right from the start.

Getting good auto tags for many classical CDs is the biggest problem with this approach. THere may be better auto tagging web services available via other tools if this becomes a problem.

I use iTunes on my MAC Book Pro computer and rip my CD's using the AIFF Format. I check the error correction box and have had no problems.

My albums are being stored on the LaCie 3TB d2 USB 3.0 Thunderbolt Series Hard Drive. I also back them up to a Seagate hard drive.

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was developed by Apple Computer in 1988 based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems.

The audio data in a standard AIFF file is uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM).

It aint worth the time and effort. Unless of course you have no life...

Notec,

"It aint worth the time and effort. Unless of course you have no life..."

Or if you have a wife... :-)

If on a MAC use XLD, on a PC use Dbpoweramp.. As for WAV it has almost zero support for metadata! I'd suggest if you are worried about even a lossless format that's compressed then use either AIFF, or use FLAC setup with zero compression, both will support artwork and metadata and sound great.