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Exact Audio Copy and Lame is the way to go

I know everyone always says "use EAC, it gives you the best quality rips you can get". But I don't get it.

Until recently I was using Audiograbber for all my rips (and LAME to encode), because EAC just couldn't cope with my old CDROM. I now have a nice Plextor CDRW/DVDROM so I thought it was time to switch to the "best" ripper around.

Using Audiograbber on my PII300 with my new drive it can manage to rip at 15x - 25x (depending on where on the disk the track is). EAC manages 5x - 10x on the recommended settings and still only 10x - 15x on the "fast" setting.

Now I'm happy to sacrifice a bit of speed for better quality. However I have yet to find a single track where the WAV files generated by EAC and Audiograbber differ at all (i.e. I do a bit by bit compare and they are identical).

I would happily use EAC if it actually did produce different results to Audiograbber, but as long as Audiograbber does perfect rips anyway I don't see the point.

All of my CDs are in very good condition, I don't go around mishandling my disks. Does this explain why Audiograbber gives the same results but 3 times faster ?

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