I'm curious about how you oggusers rip your cd's, both linux and win* plattform prosesses are interesting.

I use CDex, with CDDB support. With the External Encoder setting -> oggenc.exe, with this parameter sting:
-N "%tn" -t "%t" -l "%b" -a "%a" -q5 -o "%2" "%1" -G "%g"

It's really annoing the tracknum-bug in the tagg allway adds "n", e.g. "01n".
And I miss option for Year/date-tagg.

And you?

Using EAC + Psytel AACenc 2.01

-extreme

That's enough for me.

EAC.
encode to mpc xtreme using speeks frontend. I havn't encoded in a while though.

I use EAC. I used to typically rip wav files in "burst" mode and then run "fast" or "secure" on any of the tracks that had errors in them. However, "burst" can sometimes have errors that go unreported, so I'm usually going with "fast" or "secure" right away now. I mostly encode using oggdrop, sometimes use oggifier if I want to alter the order in which the files are encoded.

I use either EAC (Mainly for my own CD's. I have set it to add new CD's to the database and don't want "foreign" CD's in the database) or CD-Ex by ripping to wav-files in a directory.

Then I use a Perl-script for encoding the directory of wav-files (mainly to Ogg now, though sometimes to MPC) adding tags(based on filenames):
Artist
SongTitle
Tracknumber
Album

And adding following tags:
Year
a tag called "Encoding parameters"
and various "comments" if needed


So for instance I could have a (advanced view) tag like this:
TITLE=Kayleigh
ARTIST=Marillion
ALBUM=Misplaced Childhood
DATE=1985
COMMENT=Remastered 1998
TRACKNUMBER=02
Encoding parameters = -q 4,5

(If I use MPC I run replaygain afterwards)

Hi. EAC option

%A-%T/ %A %C - %N %T

Works great until you have a "Various Artists" cd.

CDex with the moddified vorbis dll works great. I use it with a quality of no less than 4 and paranoia on full. The results are quite good and they are all tagged to boot. CDeX over the years has become one of my CD rippers of choice. If only I could find a Linux CD ripper I liked as well.

Right now I am in a conversion process and encoding stuff in both MP3 and Vorbis. I used to let CDex do all, but now I use CDex to WAV and then do the Vorbis and MP3 3ncoding by hand at the command line. Anyone know a ripper that supports multiple encoding?

EAC works fine with VA CDs. I use:

%D-%C%N-%T, and tick the various artist name scheme using %D-%C%N-%A-%T for that one.

i use "eazy cd extractor" to rip and encodes with psytell AACenc

EAC secure mode to monkey audio. from there to lame or ogg.

Sawg use monkeys audio. it can support other loseless codecs or lame or ogg.