

Now is time to configure the CD drive for secure ripping, click Secure Settings next to the Secure (Recover Errors) line: Visit to determine the status of your CD drive.

By over-reading (if the drive is capable) theįirst or last few samples can be read from the CD, in most instances these samples are silence. CD drives have a fixed offset, later in this guide the offset of the drive is found, for drives with a + offset the CD drive would have to beĪble to read into the Lead-out, where a drive with a - offset would have to read into the Lead-in. If your CD drive supports reading into the lead / lead out, check the option Read into Lead-in or Lead-out For FLAC Level 5 is a good selection (a good balance between minimal compression time and reasonable compression).īy default ripped audio files are placed in the Music folder saved underĪrtist\Album\Track Number Artist - Title this option could be changed to suit using Set next to Naming. Lossless audio codecs do not have many options, all compression modes are lossless, the higher modes require much more CPUĮncoding time and will only achieve an extra 1% compression. This guide will continue with FLAC as its Used for playback: iTunes prefers Apple Lossless and practically all The choice of audio format depends on the programs Popular audio formats are FLAC andĪpple Lossless. Decide on an audio format, preferably a lossless audioįormat (a file compressed with a lossless encoder will decompress 100% This is where the real 'work' begins, effort put in at this stage will ensure best possible results - we have a saying 'rip once - rip right', ripping is a time consuming process, it should be only done once Using dBpoweramp for Apple OS X? Apple specific instructions on setting up.
