Does anybody know why windows media player rips cds without art cover or it will download a album and extract one song from the list?m3u is set just for your info.
I am a sucker for MusicBee
Because Microsoft?
No clue. I like wmp for ease of use, but power user wise, it is a disaster.
Yeah, I just use it cause se e I dont have another cd rip program
A quick question regarding software; Should I have the FLAC files, but no physical CDs, is there any software available that can easily convert those FLAC files into other lossless or lossy file formats?
Yes, you can convert flacs into lossy files using something like FlacSquisher or other online free services
And the same goes for converting from one lossless format to another? Something like FLAC to ALAC?
I personally use dbpoweramp for that. Its easy, simple fast. I think eventually you have to pay for it so as long as you convert shit in a sitting you are good
Yeah thatās the main concern, dpoweramp can do it all but does cost money
Yeah I personally used dbpoweramp. And it was phenomenal,but im hoping the day that i have to pay for it never comes .heard ita super expensive. Thankfully i donāt regularly get new music so I doubt ill have to convert my flacs again anytime soon
Say you got a folder worth of FLAC you want as mp3.
FFMPEG in combination with the cmd/Powershell will happy to help.
When cmd starts on C:\Users\You
and you have your music on for example E:\MyFiles\MyFlacCollection
you change over with
cd /D E:\MyFiles\MyFlacCollection
The /D
flag is used for changing drive, when all your action is on C:\
, you donāt need it.
Then it is as simple as pasting this:
for %A in (*.flac) do ffmpeg -i "%~nA.flac" -c:v copy -b:a 320k "%~nA.mp3"
for %A in (*.flac) do ffmpeg -i "%~nA.flac" -c:a alac "%~nA.m4a"
(copy from forum, rightclick in cmd/powershell to paste)
Yeah, that works too lol, but I prefer to use a proper gui for simplicityās sake
Everyone their own. I like myself a bad CLI over a good GUI.
Apparently I can do the same with foobar but Iām not very familiar with that software
You can also do it with vlc as well. But yes you can do it on foobar, Iām sure there is a tutorial somewhere
If youāre on a Mac, XLD does all the file conversion stuff as well as ripping. Itās free.
On Windows, I use dBpoweramp. I think itās well worth the $39 asking price.
Iād use XLD more often, but the Mac itās installed on is very slow, and I donāt have enough cash to buy an external Superdrive for my 2019 MBP. That being said, I did manage to get the file conversion to work with Foobar 2000 so thatās nice.
The big problem right now is catalina
Wont let non Apple Approved Apps run
Wont run anything thatās 32 bit
so thereās no guarantee stuff like XLD or programs from Github will work
Oh thatās fair enough. If anything, Iād let the old Mac I have just rip stuff into ALAC, and then into FLAC, and then once those files are on my windows machine, just convert them into the other audio formats I want. Itās a hell of a hassle, but considering itās the only machine I got that actually has a working disc drive itās better than nothing.
Thatās what Iām planning to do with my laptop after my PC is built. Use my mac for ripping and just port it over to my drives and play on my PC