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Fortunately, there’s another tagger called “freedb” which I’ve found to be pretty good at identifying most discs in my collection. I’ve found for jazz and classical music, the default tagger is inadequate. Depending on your source material, that may be just fine. The default tagger for identifying discs without embedded CDTEXT information (which is all of them) is Musicbrainz. 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.

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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.

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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”.

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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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