How did you find out about the whole encoding process?, Discovering EAC, Lame, Flac etc. Options

[ConCave]

I remember the first time that i found out about ripping and encoding, it was about 4 years ago when i was using WMP8 to rip my cds into WMA 64 kbps (Cold so cold ) and thinking that the pops and skips in the audio were part of the encoding. And then i found CDex (Great when your a newbie) and i was blown away i could rip my music without skiping and in 128 kbps mp3 man this sounds a hell of a lot better than wma. Then stumbling across HA and found that i was doing it all wrong i should be using "EAC (Secure mode) + Lame 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard" and i've been using these settings ever since.

So how did you start in the world of audio encoding.

ConCave

This post has been edited by ConCave: Jun 7 2006, 03:08

[Madman2003]

At some point i ran into some strange files with the extension .mpc, later i learned what they were. My first ripper was eac secure mode(later on test&copy too) using mpc q7 or q8. Then i switched to flac. Later i switched to cdparanoia and made my own script to do the stuff i was missing from eac (like test&copy). All this started started a few(3-4 probably), when mppenc 1.14 was already out and used a lot (i think). So it was much later than most.