Select your CD drive and then “Rip” from the small dialog and you’ll be taken to the next step… Step 2: ID the Disc with the freedb tagger You’ll be presented with a small list of available drives.

Pretty straight-forward: Do what you need to do to get a disc in your disc drive and then select Open audio CD… from foobar2000’s File menu. The Process Step 1: Put a disc in the tray and open it It offers a more familiar, iTunes like browser interface instead of presenting all of your music in one single list. foobar2000’s Preferences screen, Components. Here’s a screenshot of my installed components, though you’ll note that everything you need for ripping should already be installed. ( Foobar2000’s instructions for Ripping CDs) The downside is that makes it hard to setup if you don’t know what you’re doing. That makes it really powerful a Swiss Army Knife of audio tools. That’s because Foobar2000 is modular and highly configurable. The weird: Out of the box, after a fresh install, you won’t see much. While there are a number of tools available to rip discs to FLAC files, I’m using just one to do all the heavy lifting: Foobar2000. boxes and boxes of compact discs in various states of rippedness. If I’ve missed anything, or you have any improvements you’d like to see, feel free to drop me a note in the comments. It’s the same encoding back-end I used on my Mac and the results are every bit as good. The process is a little more involved, but once setup, it’s mostly a three-click operation, uses AccurateRip for bit-accurate copies of your music. So, since I’ve been locked away in my den of isolation, I thought, what better time to rip a bunch of our jazz back catalog from CD? I’ve come up with a set of tools to mostly replicate what I was doing on my Mac, using a process I’ve previously written about back in 2016. They’re mostly terrible, often linking to questionable for-pay shareware, and occasionally even copied from other sites doing exactly the same thing. For the most part, it’s been a great experience, but one constant source of irk is that anytime I need to lookup what people are using to do any particular task, the internet serves up page after page of, “Top $X Windows Apps to Do $Task”. I’ve been living in Windows without touching my old Mac Pro for going on five months now. Also, there are no fine controls on the output format. Me: Those apps use dithering and error correction on the music you’re ripping. NETPC: Dude, just use iTunes/Windows Media Player/whatever. Are you really going to spin 2000 words on ripping CD music? In 2020? In the middle of a global pandemic? (non-existent third party commentator) Hold up.

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