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Ripping and Tagging Services

Some time ago, there were some threads talking about ripping services, where you would UPS your CDs and a portable hard drive and someone else could do all the work.

I think I may have also seen something about this looking up the squeezebox device.

Could anyone please comment on their experiences or thoughts on this subject?

I would like to have all of my CDs ripped into "bit for bit" WAV files and would be particularly thrilled if they could also be tagged (?).

If any of you can vouch for the quality of other, truly lossless formats for use into a DAC, that would be great too.

But please please please please - no compression and no "I challenge you to hear the difference" type comments. I want the hard core audiophile solutions only.

One other question - does anyone know what happens or who pays for the transfer is there is a scratched CD which fails to transfer properly? Or does the EAC, slow ripping procedure pretty much eliminate this risk?

Cwlondon

Thank you.
cwlondon

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coffee_nudge
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You can't add tags to WAV files.
coffee_nudge
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Marco:
Ah yes...you are right again. I was not thinking in terms of using I-Tunes, but was just thinking in terms of creating a generic WAV file (I use EAC, not I-Tunes).

While I do not profess to be an expert on these things, I understand that I-Tunes does allow you to either (a) import WAV files into I-Tunes and add the "tag" info to I-Tunes; or (b) rip from a CD to a WAV file using I-Tunes, with the "tag" info.

However, I don't believe the WAV file itself carries the tags, but that I-tunes itself stores the info. But I would certainly defer to anyone else who knows these things better than I.
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