Ripping CDs

I use Winamp to rip to .WAV files from my portable CD drive ($40) to my laptop. Super easy. WAV files are marginally better than FLAC files. And you may be able to tell a difference with a hi-res playback system.

FLAC is lossless...but lossless is a euphemism for 'virtually' no loss. It's 60% of the original file so it is a compressed format. It's an excellent format for many reasons but memory is cheap these days and a WAV file is the exact copy of the original.

Save to WAV and you won't need to worry about the next version of 'lossless' in a few years. Glad I saved to .WAV during the  MP3 rage.

Like I said, you may not even notice a difference but why not get 100% of the info you paid for.

HP External Portable Slim Design CD/DVD RW Write/Read Drive, USB, Black (F2B56AA) https://a.co/d/1CihS85

This is the drive I recently bought. Works great.

@moonwatcher 

When I rip to .WAV, all I get is a music file. That’s all. I was led to believe that FLAC manages all that stuff and that’s why people like it. In my experience, WAV files don’t support metadata. It’s just a music file…I don’t and haven’t dealt with anything extra.