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Solid Rock, or EAC rules: don't rip CDs without it

posted by Zed on August 16 2002 10:07

A favorite album of mine is Dire Straits' Making Movies. Unhappily, my CD of it went south and skips mightily, especially on "Solid Rock."

Recently I built and have been configuring a new computer (about which I'll probably geek out more here later.) I installed EAC, Exact Audio Copy. It keeps making passes over a CD until it gets it.

In a little over 3 minutes, EAC had copied the whole CD to my hard drive (in .wav format, no compression), and I was listening to a perfect rendition of "Solid Rock." And on the one copy-protected CD I used it on, it readily ignored the protection. And it's free (postcardware)!

The Radified Guide to Ripping and Encoding CD Audio is a useful article that discusses EAC and more. Good to know, especially for Windows users, considering how much Windows Media Player sucks.

I predict much CD ripping in my future.

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