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ok I think I've made my mind up to try DBPoweramp again and/or JRIVER as EAC tutorials are all on the older version. I did find a great review on youtube but it's not the current version and I'm also not certain it rips to aiff. At any rate, I will try DBPoweramp or JRIVER and hopefully get some good results. I can also then run error check or accurate rip against those I used iTunes to rip, correct? I currently have 9300 tracks/ 382GB ripped using iTunes in AIFF format. I really really hope that they pass the accurate rip check. I assume that I'll find that in the DBPoweramp software and JRIVER? Thanks again for all the help!

I'll take a look at the tutorial there. I like how itunes tags well and was reading that I could use it as the source of my library to store everything and then use J River to playback the files in. That's another topic I guess. Also I was wondering about the actual cd/dvd/bluray drive- does it matter how fast it's ripping? I can't seem to control the speed at which it rips, just burns. (then again I'm still ripping into itunes hoping that the cd's aren't damaged. A couple years ago I think I ran accurate rip on the entire library and it only found about 15 errors out of around 14,000 tracks or so. I'm not certain that is accurate as I really thought there would be a lot more. Thats why I'd like to use EAC but I'm pretty far along already in re-ripping from mp3s to AIFF (chose after researching what best would be in itunes for lossless).

Thanks very much. I will give it another shot to see how it works.

baddog re: XLD, I'm on a PC so unfortunately I can't try it as option.

I tried EAC and became quite confused and frustrated with my lack of knowledge/use of it so just went back to iTunes. I would need a EAC for dummies guide or a simple guide to use. I did use DBPoweramps Accurate rip check on a trial basis which was nice.

I have heard of JRiver but have not yet tried it. Sounds great and I'll give those a shot to start with. Thanks so much for your help!

I believe I may have tried DB Power Amp's trial version but it was over a year ago and I don't recall how that went. I haven't used DVD audio extractor either. Since itunes can't play back hi res files what would be the best for Windows PC playback? I have yet to purchase software for blu ray player and actually will be needing a new blu ray player/burner for my pc as the one I bought was way overpriced and came with really old software that doesn't work and tries to upsell as well as no firmware update for the player. I have been having a bit of difficulty finding a good bluray player/burner to rip my cd's when I use newegg or Amazon for user reviews. I'm a bit confused how the AIFF files will stay intact with the metadata if I switch from iTunes for playing and ripping to another software yet I think I should as I've been finding some skips/thus the reason for my buying a bluray to rip. Figured it may do a better job at it.

Newbie here. I have ripped approximately 1500 cd's into the latest version of iTunes to over write my low bitrate rips of the past. I chose AIFF, 44.1, 16 bit 1411 mbps for import and checked the error correction box (which doesn't seem to work well). I tried EAC yet it seems very difficult to learn and the metadata was hard to figure out so I just went back to iTunes. I would like an easy way to complete the ripping process that catches the scratches, etc. yet still is easy to work with and use iTunes to manage the library. I also would like to be able to use something that will rip some hi rez bluray audio cd's I have that are 24 bit and way better sounding files. ITunes will not rip those. Thanks for any suggestions on software to accomplish this in a dummyproof way. Just want to get it done quick and not have to spend tons of time troubleshooting stuff not getting tagged correctly, etc. Thanks much!!