Last time I ripped any of my music collection I used EAC and Flac encoder, using a good howto I found on the net (somewhere...)

It's been a while since I last ripped any cd, so this time I found out that I was gonna try dbpoweramp.

Is there any settings/plugins I should use to get the best result?

I bought the dbpoweramp reference program, and downloaded and installed the FLAC codec from the same site.
I tried ripping a cd (Royksopp - The Understanding). At first my dvd-rom was checked ok by dbpoweramp.
Ripping was fast and easy, except that the first three songs had an error message after ripping.

This cd is produced by EMI with some kind of copy protection. The cd looks ok in my eyes, so I cant understand why there should be any errors...

Any suggestions on:
- whats the best settings
- why error
- does dbpoweramp check the ripped files up against any database of former rips like EAC?

See, for example,

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=15374

and yes dbpoweramp compares against accurate rip data base

p.s. I have brand new first time played CDs that occasionally have ripping errors, although reripping those tracks usually gets secure rips.

Thank you for your input!

I tried reripping the songs with errors, and one of them suddenly turned secure. The cd is not brand new, so it could have some very small scratches that I cannot see... Could of course be the reason.

I tried ripping another cd, and that one worked out fine.

So, what you're saying is that dbpoweramp does it perfect right-out-of-the-box? Nice!

It was deffinetly more hassle last time I ripped any cds!

DrE

dbpoweramp is a very nice program for doing secure rips and much more. Read a little more about it over at dbpoweramp site, but if you search around here at HA you'll find that many believe it to be a very good program for secure ripping. I'm quite pleased with it myself. I use to (1) rip to FLAC with tags and album art then (2) convert to mp3 (Lame) for portable use.

...and the problems with CDs are certainly not limited to things you can see on the CD itself with the naked eye. Thus one reason we need secure ripping to begin with.

> does dbpoweramp check the ripped files up against any database of former rips like EAC?

I would hope so, dbpoweramp is the creator of AccurateRip

Has accuraterip configured on your drive? (CD Ripper >> Options Button >> scroll down to cd drive section and it should show a sample offset set).

I would like a portable version (no registry/%appdata% writing and .ini e relative paths support)

If you cannot write to %appdata% then on vista you cannot write anywhere. It is the location program data is supposed to be (large chunks, such as CD Rippers meta data cache or AccurateRip results).

Writing to Program Files\ quite rightly requires elevation to full system altering abilities.

On my XP/Vista systems running in LUA (Least Privilege User Accounts) mode, my apps are all portable (tips&tricks, AutoIt launchers, virtualized, etc.) and i don't storage/use them in "Program Files" (or sys partition), i use other fs locations with appropriate ntfs permissions.
The apps and their settings are always ready to move to any other location (usb stick for example) and they don't "dirty" (so NO Registry entries, no writing in %appdata%, %windir%, %userprofile%, etc. ) the Host Systems (friend's PCs, Internet point, etc.).