> > Ripping to flac is the best way. It's lossless.
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> Not quite - you won't preserve pre-gap content like hidden tracks, index marks,
> non-standard time count, and other mastering quirks that some discs include. The only
> way to preserve that kind of thing is to rip to bin/toc with something like cdrdao.
I ripped my CD'S using Wavpak (lossless) which generally has better compression than FLAC but mostly I used it because it allows ripping the entire CD as one file and embedding of the cue sheet to preserve the disc structure.
I used to use EAC with the REACT script but last I checked a few years ago REACT wasn't being developed anymore and EAC was on life support.
I took a look at dbPowerAmp but it had a shortcoming in that you couldn't rip to WAV/FLAC/WavPak and also rip to MP3 (via LAME) in one step. With dbPowerAmp it's a multi-step process. That's why I would use REACT (w/EAC) - I could rip the entire CD as one file, verify it against the Accuraterip database and then compress the WAV to WavPak (embedding the cue sheet into the lossless compressed file) and then compress the songs individually with MP3 (via LAME) for my MP3 player. REACT would automate the entire process so all you had to do was put the CD in the drive and make sure the info pulled from the CDDB was good.
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