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In Reply to: RE: Does nobody here understand what the hell they're looking at? posted by Ryelands on May 23, 2009 at 05:08:42:
Speaking as one of the first people to recommend dbpoweramp in this forum, here's my two cents.
From a rip quality perspective
1. detect and disable drive caching, not just on Plextor drives (EAC does this in an undocumented and unreliable way)
2. vary the drive speed in different passes (when encountering a scratched disc)
3. able to detect pre-emphasised discs, so that I can de-emphasise them properly
4. able to detect HDCD discs, and have an HDCD to 24-bit converter that works
5. have a special mode to rip protected CDs
6. can rip hidden tracks (so far, I have only encountered one disc with a hidden first track, but it's good to know it works)
From a processing perspective, dbpoweramp has excellent meta-tagging facilities, and can rip to any format (I choose to rip to WMA lossless).
Lastly, and the most important reason: dbpoweramp is *fast*, even in secure mode. On my drives (two LGs and a Plextor) dbpoweramp achieved 30x ripping speeds compared to EAC (3-4x, but sometimes slower than 1x).
PS - Noticed I never said dbpoweramp produced "better sounding" rips.
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Follow Ups
- "what dbpoweramp does that EAC does not" - Christine Tham 05/23/0915:25:02 05/23/09 (4)
- RE: "what dbpoweramp does that EAC does not" - Ryelands 05:42:37 05/26/09 (3)
- Good post, Dave - Old Listener 16:54:57 05/26/09 (0)
- dbpoweramp rip speed vs EAC - Christine Tham 14:20:13 05/26/09 (1)
- info on another brand - Old Listener 17:11:39 05/26/09 (0)
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