gomezmichaelr

Well, a lot of good responses, and I have decided based on all the responses and other posts, that ripping with some sort of feedback its definitely the way to go. Can someone expand on settings for Max (full cd paranoia mode), specifically the "Comparison Ripper Settings". Thanks again for all the responses. Regards Mike

Hello Chris, Well I don't think it was a specific post per se, but rather that nobody in the forum, as far as could tell, has discussed this method of ripping. Again, maybe Im wrong and it has been discussed somewhere in the forums. What I did notice is that, there is a lot of discussion regarding ripping and settings, and best practices, etc. And it made me wonder maybe there is a reason I have not come across the copying method that I use, maybe I been doing it all wrong. My reasoning was that direct copying aiffs of the cd, is an exact immaculate copy of the original, but then again I could be wrong. Well, thats it in a nutshell. Btw, great website, I cant believe I just came across it. Thanks for responding. Mike G.

The only issue with XLD is that is limited to 16bit Aiff, and so is Xact. MG

Hello, My name is Mike and this is my first post to the forum. I currently have a very large Mac iTunes library (strictly aiff format), it is roughly about 4 terabytes, and it is divided into 2 separate libraries, the first library is classical and opera only (just over 18,000 tracks), and the second library is pretty much everything else (just over 19,000 tracks). Well, it goes without saying that I have spent quite a while ripping and immaculately tagging everything that goes into my libraries. My question is regarding cd copying, I rip cds by basically copying every aiff file directly from the mounted cd directly into iTunes, but by reading some of the post on the forums, Im having second thoughts about the process. Can someone shed some light on the subject, is this an appropriate method of accurately ripping my cds? Thanks Mike G