Sunday, April 6, 2008

[Random Entry - 20/02/2008] - How to rip Audio CD in Lossless Format/FLAC?

For this tutorial, I'm using foobar2000 to rip the audio CD, other media players should able do the same thing, provided that you've installed the plugins.

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What you'll need:-

  1. Foobar2000, get it here:- http://www.foobar2000.org/foobar2000_0.9.5.1.exe
  2. FLAC encoder, get it here:- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac-1.2.1b.exe
  3. AudioCD, get it...wait, its your own :x

Ok, lets begin...

 

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  • Install foobar, once you've downloaded it.

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  • Install FLAC, once you've downloaded it.

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    • Ok, now comes on how to encode it
    • Get your AudioCD, or any.
    • For my case, I'll use some random audio CD, in iso format [it's basically the same thing anyway, so I'll skip on how to mount it, since you'll just need DAEMON tools, ONLY if you're using image iso file]

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    • Once you've insert your Audio CD to drive, open Foobar
    • Go to File-> Open Audio CD
    • Select your player, and click on RIP button.

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    • A new window will pops up, click on RIP button.
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    • Select FLAC, Level 5 from the list.
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    • Then click the "..." button next to it to changes your settings.
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    • This is where you set the compression level and also the file sizes.
    • Once you're done, click OK.
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    • Click OK to begin RIPping.
    • If it asks for CommandLine encoder, please locate the FLAC command encoder.
    • Normaly its located at C:\Program Files\FLAC as in default installations directory.
    • Select your desired location to place your converted files.
    • Click OK to continue.

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    • Audio ripping in progress...
    • Speed of encoding are depending on your computer processor speed.
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    • The results.
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    • The files normally ranging from 20mb->50mb, depending on your song and also your settings.
    • And also the bitrate:-

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