Ok folks. Any help you can give here is appreciated.
For a while I've had a 10GB Jukebox 2, and the music on it is WMA at a low bitrate so I can fit everything on.
Next couple of weeks I'll be moving to a 40GB Zen Touch.
I'd like to have as high quality music on that as possible.
I've decided to go for LAME VBR 192kBit/sec.
As far as I can tell I've got Exact Audio Copy configured right for this - I tested on a Queen CD and it seemed to work. It beeped a ton, but it did produce correctly tagged MP3 files.
Now I'm going to have to bin all my WMA files, as and when I replace them with better quality stuff.
Ideally I want to have a lossless version, and a MP3 version on my hard drives (space on the hard drives is not an issue, I have over 1.5TB). The MP3 versions I can just throw onto the new Zen Touch, the lossless I'll keep for when a 2TB DAC comes out in 5 years time, and for playing at home.
Assuming that the beeping that comes from EAC is nothing to worry about. Then I'm able to rip all my CDs fine.
I have a bunch of CDs that I've ripped previously that are in storage, or at my parents house. Both of which are up the other end of the country.
But I do have some flac files for them.
My questions are these....
I want to take flac and ape files, and turn those into mp3 files, while preserving the tag information.
Ideally I'd like to be able to do a lot of files at once.
I have searched about, but google is not very helpful. All I get is ads for commercial software which probably won't do what I want, and if it does I need to pay 30 dollars to do it, and even then will eat tags or ruin the quality.
I've searched about on forums, but I've ended up with a rather large headache.
I'm hoping someone that reads this has a little sympathy for me, and can suggest how I can achieve what I'm after.
I do realise that this information is probably contained here already, but I have looked, and I just can't see it.
I've also realised I don't even know if I'm using the correct settings for EAC, I do know that they are here somewhere, and I've tried to read the page several times - probably contributed to this headache.