What are Reddit's favorite CD Ripper Apps?
foobar2000
MediaMonkey
Exact Audio Copy
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X Lossless Decoder
Max
PowerISO
AIMP
MusicBee
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Switch
Rhythmbox
jetAudio
Winamp
CDex
Format Factory
winLAME
morituri
aTunes
Audiograbber
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CUERipper
Asunder
StarBurn
TAudioConverter
mufin
Rubyripper
VUPlayer
Aqualung
Perl Audio Converter
SimplyBurns
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It may look plain, but you can customize the heck out of it (Screenshot of my ugly setup just to give you an idea). It can pretty much do anything you would ever need it to do with music.
From the FAQ:
> Does foobar2000 sound better than other players? No. Most of “sound quality differences” people “hear” are placebo effect (at least with real music), as actual differences in produced sound data are below their noise floor (1 or 2 last bits in 16bit samples). foobar2000 has sound processing features such as software resampling or 24bit output on new high-end soundcards, but most of the other mainstream players are capable of doing the same by now.
http://www.foobar2000.org/ Foobar is music library and player program loved by many audiophiles. It's ridiculously fast with extensions it can do pretty much anything you could think of. I was even able to get it to sync music while I was still using ios devices.
Foobar2000 hands down. I've been using it for years and years. Probably the most lightweight audio playing program around with tons of customization.
Here's a screenshot of what it looks like and the CPU it takes up.
I don't trust web-based audio compression tests, especially since its so easy to ABX in your own controlled environment. With foo_abx, you can select the music you like, know the exact compression settings, number of trials to make it statistically significant, fast seeking from A to B, etc.
With that said, its a good thing for Tidal to raise awareness and make people think about the sound quality of their streaming music.
Hello, I'm here from Audiophile land to tell you about the magic of Exact Audio Copy! This thing takes old beat up CDs and reads the error sectors over and over again until it's convinced it knows what bits go in those sectors. It works on data CDs to to some extent, check it out and see if it helps you!
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/
Put your 2007 thinking cap on while navigating to the correct Download link. You should end up with eac-1.3.exe, 4.83MB, signed by Andre Wiethoff. MD5 6CD17649E256E37BE77D30226CF9CB05
Before you do all that work, make a blind A/B X and decide whether all that ripping is actually worth the effort.
*edit:
- This page is also very helpful http://mp3ornot.com/
- and if you decide to start ripping FLAC use EAC
There are a few that are good enough for music management, but they don't seem to sync up with iOS devices as well as iTunes itself does (I'm assuming that's a requirement here).
I'd say give MediaMonkey a look. It seems to be the one with most features (including iOS device syncing) and it's free too. I've used it myself in the past and found it pretty easy to get to grips with.
Lol. Here you go buddy:
http://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ#other_questions
Does foobar2000 sound better than other players?
No. Most of “sound quality differences” people “hear” are placebo effect (at least with real music), as actual differences in produced sound data are below their noise floor (1 or 2 last bits in 16bit samples). foobar2000 has sound processing features such as software resampling or 24bit output on new high-end soundcards, but most of the other mainstream players are capable of doing the same by now.
Right, but Apple Lossless does use the m4a container and the component I was referring to supports ALAC. Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares, I guess.
MediaMonkey is 10x better than iTunes for managing your music library if anyone is interested in an alternative. It's a fine player too. The interface is not quite the eye-candy that apple's products are, but it's pretty great.
I just use xld to convert FLAC to ALAC and have resigned to simply using iTunes to manage my folders and playlists. My family has a few macs and iphones, so this just makes it easier all around.
They do, but audio CDs were designed to be played back in real time and so were given error correction that could fail and keep playing without skipping, as long as enough data was present, by filling-in the errored data. CD drives read audio CDs using the same lossy error-correction, unlike with a data CD. These fill-ins usually occur several times in a playthrough or rip. Proper rippers read areas several times, compare checksums, and take the sample whose checksum appears multiple times. 2 or 3 by default, though this can be set arbitrarily high.
Coming from foobar2000, the firefox of music players, I can't support your opinion. The amount of plugins and customization is awe inspiring. I use Monkeymote to control the music playing from my computer using my phone. Groove feels unabashedly minimalist and there's so much you can't do with it.
get a program called exact audio copy. http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
And with it convert it all in to FLAC. (rougly 250mb - 500mb per album) You might have to look up how to do it more thoroughly online but it is quite easy once you get the hang of it.
This format can later be converted to any other format including making a new exact audio copy of the original disc.
Flac is a format that is loss less in its compression unlike mp3 that is lossy. Meaning that you do not degrade the music quality.
As for selling it depending on quality and demand of said discs check out various sites online like http://www.discogs.com/
GL
Yep. Back in 2004, I bought $50 of music from the itunes music store. Lost the files in a computer failure/reinstall of OS. Apple wouldn't let me download the files again, even though I paid for them and authorized my computer. That was the last time I ever bought anything from itunes, and I switched to foobar2000 shortly after and got into torrenting.
Mute the in-game music, alt-tab out of the game, play the music you want, go back to the game. A bit hackish, but it works.
However, if you want control over your music without switching away from the game, there's two options I can recommend.
If the game you're doing this with is on Steam, you can use Steam's media player via the overlay. If you're not using Steam but you have an Android device, you can play the music through foobar2000 and control it via foobarCon.
There's probably other ways to go about it, but these are the ones I've used before.
I used MediaMonkey for about 5,000 files. It took me around 3-4 hours to rename all the songs, update ID3 tags, get album art, and move to proper folder. It's time-consuming still, but you only have to do it once. If I trusted the automatic tools a little better, it would have taken even less time.
Treuer Nutzer seit mehr als 10 Jahren. Ich habe auf Linux leider nichts gleichwertiges gefunden ehemals mit Amarok/Banshee gearbeitet, aber da wird es mittlerweile besseres geben.
/r/FOOBAR2000
My opinion will be confirmed by this posts upvote count.
(Install the Wasapi Plugin to remove windows volume buggery)
Also can use milkdrop with the Shpeck Plugin
I am not converting MP3 to FLAC.
I am starting with RAW audio from Vinyl or CD using EAC. I convert the RAW audio to FLAC/ALAC using DBPowerAmp.
MediaMonkey all the way. I use it to rip all my CDs and convert them to FLAC. I organize them with proper tags and file names. I then sync the collection with my iPod, which means that all the songs are automatically converted to mp3s.
If you add the Columns UI to foobar2000, it lets you pick from a couple default layouts that look pretty nice. That's what I used on Windows for a long time.
Edit: My current, needlessly "techy" setup on Linux: http://imgur.com/a/K02hC
In case anyone happened to be curious.
Wow noone's just told you to open up the music files?
Assuming you're running Windows, navigate to C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\ .minecraft\resources
There are 2 folders which contain the music, one titled 'music' and one titled 'newmusic'.
You will need a player with support for .ogg, or a plugin for Windows Media Player. I highly recommend using Foobar2000, an open source media player. You can download that here: http://www.foobar2000.org/
No need for a mod, just logical thinking! Just remember to disable music ingame, now you can listen to all the tracks you want for as long as you want.
I love foobar2000 on windows. It took a little while to set everything up since it's so customizable, but once I got it exactly the way I liked it I couldn't go back to anything else.
There is an awesome plugin for foobar2000 that will do this automatically for you, sorting the tracks in you music library by a certain artist by lastfm popularity. It has other great features as well, but this is its main feature.
Unfortunately it only works well if the track titles are accurate. For classical music, track naming is so complicated it probably wouldn't work well.
If anyone is wondering, the way to get a .flac file as a ringtone on iPhone through iTunes is pretty simple:
1.) Convert the .flac file into a .m4a file (I like to use Max for Mac)
2.) Rename the .m4a extension to a .m4r extension
3.) Drag and drop the file into iTunes and it'll show up in your "Ringtones" section.
4.) Sync your iPhone
5.) Go to Settings>Sounds and voila, you can now use your newly formatted sound on any one of the categories under "Sounds and Vibration Patterns"
I've been using media monkey gold for years. Amazing program, plays flac and other loss less codecs, can still sync your apple device. There's a free version that's just as functional! check it out. http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Meier crossfeed is what you need. Will mix the two channels. There is a slider that you can adjust to fine-tune how much crossfeed you want.
I have always preferred the robustness of foobar for managing my files, when I was still playing local files a lot. But I also think that iTunes is a convenient way to deal with files. Foobar is a lot faster though and with the masstagger component, it really becomes a powerful file manager.
As for FLAC and OSX, I have opted for ALAC, since foobar plays ALAC while iTunes don't.
Heh, this would be my exact reaction as well. I mean, the audio player I use wouldn't make any distinction as long as the tagging was correct, but... it's just... wrong.
Your request could be done with a Tweak. To me it would only be useful if I could also have FLAC in iTunes.
I convert all my FLAC to ALAC. The best gui is XLD http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
but I prefer to use ffmpeg from the command line. https://www.ffmpeg.org/
- Instead of EAC, Mac users can use XLD
- TT Dynamic Range Meter is available for OS X.
- Room EQ Wizard is cross-platform (Java) and runs on Mac. Depending on what you're after, you may want FuzzMeasure Pro instead
- Harman How to Listen is available on Mac
- I've never found a mac alternative for Audio Diffmaker, and couldn't make it work with Wine/WineBottler either
- As noted, Audacity is available for Mac. That said, I like to have (cross-platform) Reaper for recording, since it behaves better when recording from a multichannel interface.
Awesome article, but it lacks the king of CD rippers, Exact Audio Copy. EAC -is- the standard for ripping flawless copies when set up correctly.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ http://xunside.info/eac/index.html
It doesn't have to be a standalone offboard DAC, WASAPI will work on anything and ASIO is available for a number of internal soundcards (most notably Creative stuff).
It's possible this would actually improve sound quality if you had your systemwide sample rate/bit depth locked to something weird or your audio interface's drivers are doing shitty postprocessing you can't turn off but in general yeah, only special snowflakes need apply.
Or to quote the download page of the Foobar2K ASIO output component:
>Please note that this component is meant for systems where ASIO is the only available output method. It is highly recommended to use the default output modes instead of ASIO. Contrary to popular "audiophile" claims, there are NO benefits from using ASIO as far as music playback quality is concerned, while bugs in ASIO drivers may severely degrade the performance.
- Made playback over HTTP automatically retry dropped connections.
- New ReplayGain playback mode picking album/track gain depending on current playback order.
- Improved handling of malformed AIFF files.
- Prevented “Open” etc dialog lockup when last used folder is on a nonworking net share referenced by raw IP.
- FFmpeg updated to 2.6.1
foobar2000 will also sync iDevices. Assuming you don't have too much protected stuff from the iTunes Music Store, you should be able to get rid of iTunes entirely, if you want.
As far as converting files, this isn't CSI. There's no way to magically put data back into a file that wasn't there in the first place. If it sounds like crap as mp3, it'll just sound like crap as any other format.
You might have more luck using foobar2000. THere is a really active plugin development community.
It's a pretty awesome player, I made the switch from winamp to foobar a few years ago.
And it apparently already has a Last.fm plugin named audioscrobbler.
http://www.foobar2000.org/download http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_audioscrobbler
What you need is Crossfeed.
It is essentially a transcoder like you said, except it tries to mimic how speakers sound by changing the amount of crossfeed based on frequency. (not sure how i could explain this better so here is the wikipedia page)
The best Software Crossfeed IMO is the Meier Crossfeed Foobar plugin here
There are also Amps with build in Crossfeed, like the iCan Se that i own.
I like its crossfeed or "3d sound", it moves everything a bit forward and doesnt effect the soundstage of songs with good imaging as much as the Meier plugin.
But i never heard another crossfeed amp before so i have no point of comparison except the software crossfeed.
I'm going to jump in and recommend Exact Audio Copy or EAC for ripping audio CDs...though I'm assuming you are using Windows. I have read it will work under Wine in Linux or OSX, but I have never tried it.
I recommend EAC for a couple reasons; it can rip into multiple formats (FLAC, MP3, etc), and it generates a results report.
The results reports are great for checking if you ripped with any skipping or errors which has happened to me using iTunes. And I'm not saying iTunes is a bad choice especially for it's ease of use. But it's nice to be able to look at a text file and see the quality of a track ranked by % quality (100%=best) rather than hearing the skipping months later when you no longer have the original CD.
Anyway, EAC is a little overwhelming to use the first time, so check out some YouTube videos of how it works as well a the FAQ on their main site. It's a great tool! =)
You'll want Exact Audio Copy.
It's a wonderful tool for Windows that will help you get every single bit from your CDs. You should spend about an hour reading guides and getting familiar with all the settings available, because the default settings won't provide you with the best possible rip.
If you're on Unix/Linux there is cdparanoia but I have not used it.
I started off with a pair of ATH-M50s and a Fiio E17 (though I think the Fiio has since been superseded). It was a great starting setup and if you have a little more $ to throw at it I would certainly recommend the M50s.
Also, like the other comments say, don't reencode your existing music as you can only make it sound the same or worse. You will need to make new rips from CDs you own or look for lossless copies elsewhere.
media monkey. i just throw music in a folder and i tell the program to sort it by artist, then make a subfolder by album and done. you just have to make sure the mp3 tags are accurate. there are scipts that do all kinds of stuff to the tags too.
You would be surprised just how frighteningly powerful MediaMonkey is. Alongside Photoshop and a small handful of games, it's the only reason I still have a Windows partition on my computer.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/ ,works great with syncing ipod and iphone,send me a message if you want the full registered version,you should give t a go,i've been using it for two years,i have 150k songs
Is very light, very customizable and great once you get used to it. Has skins as well.
It does wonders on surround with the channel mixer DSP.
Was the only worthy audio player that could replace my winamp.
If he doesn't have Spotify premium sure. But Spotify premium is 320 kb/s and there is plenty of evidence that shows it's nearly impossible to tell a difference between 320 kb/s and FLAC unless you have seriously high end gear, a professionally trained ear and only the perfect type of music. It's 99% placebo effect. There is a plugin you can use to test for yourself http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx if you can't correctly tell 95% of the time then you are just guessing.
Yeah foobar is the preferred player but in conjunction with Wasapi output any player SHOULD be the same quality wise. Foobar just makes wasapi easy
I've been using the Shpeck in foobar as an XY oscilloscope for the past year or so, so maybe you have it setup incorrectly.
Step 1: Download both of the following
Step 2: Install Shpeck by dragging and dropping the zip folder onto the components menu.
Step 3: Extract the zip folder called "Winamp.zip" to anywhere you please (I prefer the foobar installation folder as it's out of the way and easy to find)
Step 4: Navigate to the Shpeck page under visualization in the foobar preferences menu and configure the Winamp directory. This will be the Winamp folder from the previous step.
Step 5: Under available plugins a selection called "Advanced Visualization Studio v2.82 / Advanced Visualization Studio" should appear. Select it and press start. A window should pop up called "AVS", right click inside it and select X-Y Oscilloscope from the drop down menu. Once you press play on your music, it should be displaying an XY Oscilloscope!
(The oscilloscope that I included is setup to match my color scheme, but it can be edited by right clicking the AVS window and running the AVS Editor)
Hopefully this was helpful, if you are still having issues with getting it to work I'll be happy to help.
A/ If you're on a Mac, use XLD. Its free and it can do everything you need, plus a lot more. It's an amazing app.If you're on Windows, I'll let someone more knowledgeable than myself advise you.
B/ Lossless means exactly what is sounds like: you get a file that's smaller than the uncompressed orignal (generally AIFF or WAV), but without any data loss. Furthermore, lossless files (FLAC, ALACn etc. can be restored to their original, uncompressed master (AIFF, WAV, etc.).
Let me know if this doesn't make sense to you or if you require clarification.
My favorite player in terms of features (and free) is Mediamonkey. You can use Winamp plugins with it afaik. The downside is that it's ugly, so if like me, you care about that, Musicbee seems like the middleground between a full featured musicplayer, and something like foobar which can be very pretty. So Musicbee is what I'm using currently, and I really like it.
sorry for poor formatting, I don't have RES and forgot how to links.
MediaMonkey is hands down the best music library manager on windows. It flawlessly handles my 150k song library with quick startup times and searching. It stores metadata in an sqlite database so you can correct info without altering the files (thus you can still seed). It also supports any plugin that works with winamp.
MediaMonkey is the best thing that ever happened to me.... download now. Also, download CopyTrans for seamless transfers to your iphone/ipad/ipod/etc
I've found MediaMonkey to be very straightforward when it comes to organizing and tagging entire music collections. TuneUp is also very handy if you don't want to put in any effort into fixing up your music collection.
After having read your post I went to try and find something that would help. This is what I found.
R128Norm - EBU R128 Compressor/Normalizer DSP.
It doesn't have any settings or gui. Just enable it via DSP Manager.
I've only had this for about a half an hour. So far it seems OK for me.
You can try adding ABX comparator to Foobar2000, see if that's what you want.
You can find a decent overview of how to set up foobar here.
You need to use blind testing software which means you don't know what you're listening to. If you're just playing different files and thinking "Oh yes, I can hear the difference", it's meaningless, the placebo effect is too strong.
What codec? What encoder?
Since you're using foobar you can use this component for proper ABX testing: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx
Flac to ALAC?
You want foobar 2000
Make sure you install iTunes and this pack for foobar as well!
http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
And that should handle it all and preserve the quality :)
Foobar2000 uses very little processing power and is open source. I've been using it for at least 10 years and have never even considered using anything else. Here's a screenshot of what my set up looks like. Mine's pretty basic but you can customize it to whatever you want it to look like.
You can get it here for free.
Foobar can also do this, on top of being a great open-source music player. There are tons of great programs that are better than using a web-based converter.
I hope Zisteau looks into this before doing much more work.
If you don't like MediaMonkey, which has a portable version, look at FooBar2000. It is small and does what you are asking: and there are plugins too. Try the portable version first.
Portable software is software that does not have to be installed, thus keeping your system clean.
If it's properly tagged, foobar2000 can do it easily. You just have to drag all the files into a playlist, right click them, select File Operations -> Move To -> ..., then specify the file name pattern. If you only want to group by genre, it will be %genre%\%artist%\%album%\%filename%.
Step 1: download and install Clementine and foobar2000 (both of which can add/remove songs from iPods)
Step 2: decide which you enjoy better
Step 3: uninstall iTunes and never ever speak of it again.
I installed Foobar2000 and intend to use it as my primary music player instead of Winamp in the future.
I won't live with it if i don't like it, but i have high expectations since everybody else seems to love it.
Are you using this component? If not, then there's no other way, as far as I know, to play YouTube videos through Foobar. If so, then you should check the documentation to get it set up properly.
iTunes is fine, the AAC codec is really a reference in the medium.
ALAC works just right.
If you are using ALAC, I don't see any need for third party tools, IIRC, iTunes fetches metadata from iTunes store, the biggest album database.
Then, there's Max, it's oldie, but goldie, and it's free, for more advanced control: http://sbooth.org/Max/
This is how I would do it:
1) Download Poweriso, http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm 2) After you've downloaded it (AND INSTALLED! (Perhaps even rebooted is required, if so, do it.) ), go to the folder, right click AIO.iso 3) Select Poweriso (Should be there) > set the number of units (Rought translation) > Select 1 units (If it's not already set.) 4) Right click again > Poweriso > Mount (name).iso 5) Go to your computer file (Where you can see C:, D: etc) 6) You should see a CD-unit icon besides your DVD unit (If you have one) 7) Double click on it (The AIO.iso) 8) Should now start setup.exe, Install etc.
Or:
7) Right click on the AIO.iso, > Open (The .ISO should now open) 8) Find Setup.exe, or whatever you could use inside of it.
(There is no part where you actually need to open the actual Poweriso program, Just right click > mount and stuff)
Instruction nr. 7 & 8 is not clear, because I didn't personally DL it so I can't make a complete list of how to install it, Sorry, However after this you should get the basic install window to open, and you should be able to make the rest out.
Remember, this is with Poweriso which I personally use, and tend to work, There is aswell Daemon tools and Alcohol 120% which I havn't tried out myself.
Be advised, Alcohol 120% will crash Windows Vista if you're planning on installing it. (I learned this the hard way when I had Vista. /:) (They might have patched this tho)
(Formatting will probably fail, Sorry i'm new to Reddit formatting.)
Also, notice that the description of the torrent says it requires no crack / keygen etc, So you're lucky. If you would need a crack you would replace the game launch file (like sims.exe), You can get more information relating this by googling!
I haven't had to burn an audio CD in a while, but I think Exact Audio Copy will have you covered.
Otherwise, CD Burner XP should be able to handle it.
I've tried this before with an iPod Classic, and honestly installing iTunes is by far the easiest way and induces less headaches. You can do what I do and use iTunes solely for syncing music with your phone but use your player of choice (MediaMonkey for me) for actual playback. You can sync the music using MediaMonkey but you have to install iTunes anyways to get the drivers.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/WebHelp:iPod_Synchronization/4.0
you can use media monkey the wiki for how is here Media Monkey is free software that works better than itunes in my opinion and you can use it to sync almost any mp3 player with apple products included.
There's a problem with your argument: Apple doesn't want third-party programs to interact with iOS devices for things like sync. Notice that MediaMonkey has to update its software to support new iOS versions. (Rather, the thing I'm pointing out about that page is that iOS 7 required a MM update.) Also note that the MM instructions need you to keep iTunes installed to work with iOS devices. This is because iTunes installs extra pieces so that the iOS device will accept the connection and sync, rather than just show the computer its photos.
I used foo_dop for a while, back when it was actually being updated. But like the jailbreak I had on my phone, there was a waiting period after every iOS and iTunes update to make sure everything else would work with it. New iTunes updates would break foo_dop, especially if it coincided with a major iOS update. Because Apple was iterating the cat-and-mouse game of blocking off the sync functionality.
There's another, more basic reason, though. foobar2000 isn't designed to be used as a sync hub. If it were, there would be MTP support somewhere, either built-in or as an optional plugin. It's designed to act just as a music player, with or without a library backing it. Sync never entered the picture, and probably won't unless they get the mobile fb2k thing off the ground. I love fb2k to death, and hate iTunes, but I still keep iTunes around for iTunes Match and the music store.
If the files are already tagged and you just want the files to be renamed I recommend MediaMonkey
and of course people will always recommend Tag&Rename
Media Monkey. Does everything Itunes does, and doesn't fuck up your system with Apple crapware. Apple's greed makes Microsoft in the old days look like the Buddha. I was So happy the day I threw away my last Apple device and uninstalled the last scrap of their code. Good riddance. Now I can do stuff like copy text files onto my 16GB portable storage device (something Apple doesn't allow).
This is going to sound like a bit of an advertisement, but I prefer MediaMonkey; CopyTrans and Sharepod are too cumbersome if you don't want to do absolutely everything manually, and Foobar's iPod component is very slow for me.
Bro, you can use a free software like freac to convert your WAV file into any format you want.
Please read this excellent article on music download formats: http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Your 24/96 content is just mastered differently than your 16/44.1 content. Downsample, do a double blind test (original vs downsampled 16/44.1). There is a foobar2000 plugin for that.
The only way to honestly answer this is with ABX testing, where you hear two randomized samples (one in each bitrate) and then a third, X, that you try to match to either A or B. If you only succeed in matching 50% of the time then you are just guessing. Try a tool like http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx so you can test yourself blind.
I tried once and could not tell the difference between 320 MP3 and FLAC. I think I had to go down to 96 MP3 before I could start to tell the difference, and even then it was only in specific sounds. A cymbal crash took on a subtle warble in the lower bitrate that I could pick out.
Try it yourself. In reality, save your hard drive space and encode in 320 MP3 and you'll have better quality than you'll ever need.
Change log:
foobar2000 change log - version 1.3.9
New high-quality but slow resampler based on dBpoweramp/SSRC code, as an alternative to fb2k's PPHS resampler. Prevented clobbering of certain exotic M4A tags. Smooth scrolling in Default User Interface list controls. Beta 2: made smooth scrolling disabled by default as it stalls visualisation updates. You can enable it in advanced preferences. Added missing menu command for the new ReplayGain playback mode. Added oversampled peak scanning in ReplayGain scanner. Beta 2: Added tweaks for ReplayGain peak results display, in advanced preferences. Fixed 96 kHz AAC & ALAC playback. Added whitelist of HTTPS domains to suppress certificate validity checks on, for home media streaming uses [beta 3]. Added readable error messages about “Add location” failures [beta 3]. Improved detection of total duration of Constant Bit Rate (CBR) MP3 files [beta 4]. More robust recovery from network errors when playing MP3 & AAC internet radio streams [beta 5]. Removed “LegacyDisable” key in file type associations handling as it's been known to cause problems with modern Windows versions [beta 5].
Get Playback Statistics. You can then add a new column using %added% which will give you what you want. But keep in mind, this will be useful to all the files you add after you've installed Playback Statistics as it won't know when the files were originally added to your library.
Here's my Columns UI (another must have component) setup: http://i.imgur.com/cn3ig56.png
scrollbars are windows theme elements
right click the toolbar and uncheck the things you don't want
in preferences>simplaylist>groups in the columns section for whatever preset you're using add/edit it. make sure you right click a column in your playlist and enable it from the groups section
i believe the spectrum is shpeck, i could be wrong but that's a common one to use
the toolbar in that picture is what it looks like on windows 8
You should check out Foobar2000, it can organise your collection by genre, album, artist etc. The software itself looks quite dated but it's light on resources and in my opinion, better in terms of audio quality than any other player I've used.
Foobar is my go to player on all my machines no matter what version of windows. Incredibly lightweight, very customizable and handles very large media libraries with easy. Out of the box, its ugly and doesn't do much beyond play music but there's a massive amount of customization that you can do with skins, plugins, etc.
MusicBee is what i've been using lately. Ton of options and features built in, lots of themes/skins you can use and it's not nearly as heavy as Winamp/Mediaplayer/iTunes(you bloated POS). Does pretty well with large libraries as well
Assuming you prefer functionality over being purty, foobar2000 is pretty amazing. Of course, if you like the way iTunes works.. that's all that matters. fb2k has awesome extendability and customizability, but honestly if you don't like tinkering you probably won't find it that great.
If I can recommend Foobar for you; It is the Reddit standard for iTunes/music playback, and once properly customized, much more appealing and user-friendly. Takes up virtually little resources too.
edit: Thanks to Reddit's downvote society, apparently I can't recommend Foobar. For all you Reddit noobs downvoting me, how about you do a little search about how much Reddit loves Foobar?
any reason you are installing XP? It is way past the EOL and has tons of security issues at this point.
I have never tried to make a XP bootable USB, but google turns up a lot of results.
http://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/how-to-make-winxp-bootable-usb-drive.htm
Looks like most of them is from another windows PC, so I hoe you have access to one
I'd tell him the truth, that it's a tedious and expensive process if he wants it done professionally by hand you would have to charge your hourly rate.
If not he can always try some normalization software, either audicity for free or dbpoweramp can do batch normalization/conversion/apply any VSTs.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm Although it's called a converter there is nothing to stop you from having WAV in and WAV out and just using the normalization. It can also do stuff like trim leading/ending silence which might be useful too.
Or some kind of hybrid, tell him you'll teach him the process of using dbpoweramp for an hour or so at your hourly rate.
I use DBPowerAmp to convert my FLACS to ALAC rather than converting to MP3. ALAC is otherwise known as apple lossless so your conversion will still be lossless and it will work on Itunes and your IPod.
La prima cosa che mi viene in mente è di usare EAC (Exact Audio Copy) che generalmente serve per rippare i CD audio, ma ha anche delle funzioni di verifica del supporto.
Can you try a different CD drive? Also try using Exact Audio Copy, it requires some setup (a good guide here) but creates great results.
These are read errors which will be due to dirty or damaged discs or an inaccurate optical drive.
Try to clean your CDs before use and use Exact Audio Copy to rip them.
Be sure to rip them into FLAC first... mp3 isn't a perfect bit for bit copy of your CD's. I know many people in the audio online world that ripped their CD's thinking it was a good rip and then realizing once they were sold they didn't do a perfect rip.
Exact Audio Copy is the best program for ripping. http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
It's a bit complicated to set up, if you're serious fire me a pm and I can send a couple links to the set up FAQ (not on EAC website, on hydrogen audio IIRC).
As far as I know, none of the albums can be bought digitally so your only option is to buy physical CDs directly from hydeout/tribe or a third-party reseller (e.g. Amazon JP) and rip them yourself (this is trivial with EAC). I find the physical CD prices to be over the top, especially once you factor in shipping from Japan.
You need to be using a CD ripping program that supports secure mode ripping.
Try EAC: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
And set it up with this guide: http://blowfish.be/eac/Setup/setup1.html
It's a tutorial for FLAC, but you could convert the FLAC to ALAC after that with something like dBPoweramp if you want.
I used MediaMonkey as a library & tag manager. It'll auto-rename as well, auto-tag from the internet, etc. No idea how it compares to some of the other software listed in here.
Ah, for music. I was thinking about video.
If the metadata is wonky, you're probably going to have trouble getting any media server to handle that well.
If the filename/folder structure is perfect, you might try using MediaMonkey or a similar tool to populate the ID3 tags based on the filename.
Tools > Options > Auto-Tag from Filename
I have a couple Macs and they run iTunes just fine - but then again, I hate iTunes.
If I still had a PC, I would only use MediaMonkey. It's fucking awesome, and it supports ipods / iphones / ipads / iballs / etc.
I can vouch for that. All of the FLAC files that I uploaded to GMP came out sounding rather flat, despite the fact they were converted to the max CBR of 320kbps. My guess is that Google's transcoding scheme favors speed over quality and fidelity. I started personally transcoding my own FLAC collection, using LAME 3.100 set to -V 0 for max VBR. The difference is noticeable, especially on YTM (based on informal ABX testing). If you're seeking the highest quality sound/fidelity, I would recommend transcoding your FLAC files yourself to MP3, tagging those MP3s, and then uploading those files. I think the results are worth it.
My FLAC -> MP3 workflow is as follows (all using free software, Windows 10):
- Save all FLAC files to archive drive.
- Use fre:ac to transcode from FLAC to MP3 (using LAME MP3 Encoder v3.100)
- Use TagScanner and MusicBrainz to properly tag resulting files
- Upload and enjoy
One thing I noted about this with YouTube Music is that the embedded cover art needs to be of a certain size. I was starting to get a lot of uploaded albums without cover art and then realized my images were too large/high resolution. I set TagScanner to reduce the art size to 600x600, and every upload has been smooth since.
Feel free to msg me if you need any help with the above. Or, if you want me to go into further details about my process and the app settings, just let me know.