Tips for ripping classical music

[JSBach]

I am re-ripping my classical music to AAC, but i couldn't find on the internet some tips to rip classical music.

First, classical music has many sounds togetherm, tc can be both complex or simple. Think of a solo flute vs a baroque orchestra with harpsichord vs beethoven symphonies.

1. Use VBR encoding, to maximize quality of the music as well as some space, i have noted that orchestral pieces go up to 289 kbps some times [using vlc media player codec info tool, i see real time update of the input bit rate], constant bit rate contrains the music.

2. stick from 192 to above in bit rates, 250 kbps VBR shall sound transparent

3. use a good encoder engine like nero for aac's or lame for mp3's, personally i can't say much as i haven't tested itunes AAC encoder. DON'T use WMP MP3 encoder

4. Always rip from a lossless source like a CD or a lossless file, never trust the internt if it say mp3 xxx kbps,. I spotted a CD supposedly at 320 kbps, but using audacity found it was a transcode....
That's the worst you can do to music transcode from losy to losy, all that was lost is lost forever.

5. If your hard drives has lots of space consider preserving the lossless versions of your CDs

6. if you don't have an option but to reencode (some car stereos still only play mp3's) COPY/PASTE the file and reencode the copied version

7. BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP, prevent disaster.

8. Tag them nicely with cover art at 500x500, 600x600 or 700x700, don't use the pathetic I. Allegro, II. Adagio...... hmmm Adagio from what????? i used to say until i decided to copy paste the work and so - concerto No. 1 op. 10: allegro next track concerto No. 1 op. 10: adagio.... whennever use the composer tag field or album artist field

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[WalkGood]

If you are giving tips for ripping music, there isn't anything better than this thread dfkt wrote about EAC http://anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52398

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by JSBach

2. stick from 192 to above in bit rates, 250 kbps VBR shall sound transparent

Any decent encoder has no need for a minimum bitrate setting.

Originally Posted by WalkGood

If you are giving tips for ripping music, there isn't anything better than this thread dfkt wrote about EAC http://anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52398

+1 to this^

[McDougal]

+1 on WalkGood and Marvin's suggestions. For AAC I would prefer the iTunes/QuickTime encoder instead of Nero....but they both should sound fine at that bitrate.

Slightly off-topic...but how did you find out something was a transcode from Audacity? Just curious .

[El C]

Originally Posted by McDougal

Slightly off-topic...but how did you find out something was a transcode from Audacity? Just curious .

You could probably tell from the plot spectrum.

[JSBach]

Yes with plot spectrum i found a horrible cut off at 12 KHz

off-topic, hmm tehere was a season that every member here used ponies avatars hehehe why?

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by JSBach

off-topic, hmm tehere was a season that every member here used ponies avatars hehehe why?

Not every member.....http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum...php?groupid=81

[saratoga]

Originally Posted by JSBach

Yes with plot spectrum i found a horrible cut off at 12 KHz

Thats probably too low even for mp3. Perhaps it was a live recording from FM radio?

[kp-j3]

Originally Posted by Marvin the Martian

Not every member.....http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum...php?groupid=81

Anti-brony discrimination?

[skip252]

Originally Posted by saratoga

Thats probably too low even for mp3. Perhaps it was a live recording from FM radio?

I doubt they know the actual source. This doesn't seem to be a ripping guide. It's comes across more as a "How to organize your downloaded files while pretending the downloads are from a lossless source" guide. I notice there's no mention of ripping software.

Advice like

Originally Posted by JSBach

4. Always rip from a lossless source like a CD or a lossless file, never trust the internt if it say mp3 xxx kbps,. I spotted a CD supposedly at 320 kbps, but using audacity found it was a transcode....

is the tip off. If the intent was a guide on ripping original discs there's no need to advise on how to avoid lossy transcodes masquerading as lossless originals. That's only a concern if you're downloading, not ripping.

There's guides on how to actually rip to AAC. That link is for EAC. Personally I found the setup to rip to AAC using EAC a PIA. Actually the ripping setup wasn't bad, it was setting up to get the tags added.

If you use MusicBee or foobar2000 you don't need a guide at all. Just drop a copy of neroaacenc.exe into the right folder and you're all set. The default settings on both will produce AAC files at a quality setting that will ordinarily be transparent for just about everyone.

[El C]

Originally Posted by JSBach

off-topic, hmm tehere was a season that every member here used ponies avatars hehehe why?

My friend made the pony in my avatar.