EAC dbpoweramp jumpstart

Posted elsewhere about my recent “opportunity” to once again rip my favorite Cds. This time around I’ll be using a 32bit Vista machine with 3 gigs of RAM and 500MB hard drive as a dedicated music server, backed up to an enterprise quality external HD.

I like Itunes and Apple Lossless but am also going to download EAC, the free version of dbpoweramp and Foobar2000 and play around a bit with WAV, wavpac, FLAC, MP4 and even LAME, before ripping all my Cds again. I figure since I have some excess computing power I might as well learn what I can.

Before starting though, I have a couple of questions. Anyone know of sites with good introductions to EAC? Also can I set EAC (or dbpoweramp) to simultaneously and/or automatically convert a download to more than one format, say download and convert to FLAC , LAME and MP4?

I expect to learn mainly by trial and error but answers to these to questions might get me jump started. So would appreciate what ever feedback I can get. Tks.

JPO