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I would never recommend someone buy (or get a subscription of) Adobe Audition just for the purpose of ripping Red Book retail music CDs. That's like using a 155mm Paladin Howitzer cannon to kill a mosquito. We've only been talking about Audition since Mike happened to already have a copy of it...

IIRC Adobe still has its Adobe Camera RAW utility that can read a really wide variety of both old and new digital camera models and convert those RAW files in lossless fashion to a DNG (Digital Negative) format for Camera RAW or Lightroom like processing. I remember using the utility when I...

I wasn't meaning to imply you were using cracked software, but Adobe's software has been very popular with software pirates. As much as I paid for my copy of CS5.5 Master Collection it seemed worth it to mention it being legit. Regarding the auto-naming of files when they're ripped from a...

I'm pretty sure Audition CS5.5 still has Batch Processing functions under a Batch Process panel. Options for adding files to a list and doing various things to them via the effect rack or running export operations should still be there. I'm not sure which version of Audition it was that added...

Here's what to do in Adobe Audition: Rather than export one song at a time (which isn't hard to do quickly using the Ctrl+Shift+E keyboard shortcut) you can export all audio files currently open, such as an entire album, in one operation. Go to the File menu and select "Save All Audio as Batch...

I would not make two different collections of MP3 files. The term "high rez MP3" is kind of a contradictory one. The original CD quality WAV is the "high rez" thing. That's something worth archiving. The amount of lossy compression applied when deriving an MP3 from it will reduce quality to some...

Having the Sirius|XM subscription is more about variety rather than quality. I agree the audio is severely data compressed. I don't think it sounds as bad as AM radio. It compares okay to broadcast FM radio, and at least the reception is good out in the middle of nowhere. I mainly advocate...

I have that disc. What's really unusual is that the music looks brick-walled in terms of dynamics compression. Yet the peaks are not blown all the way to the 0+/- db level. The peaks stop at about +/-3db. Other albums I have from 1995, such as the debut of Garbage or "The Downward Spiral" from...

Looking through my own CD collection and pulling song files into Audition, the whole brick-walling thing seems to have really taken hold around 1995.

For MP3 files, I would use 320kb/s constant bit rate or 256kb/s variable bit rate. Anything lower is garbage, IMHO. Mike said he has a copy of Adobe Audition. It can export MP3 in those quality levels. It also has AAC export capability, but as MPEG-2 audio. Not M4A. You can choose a variety of...

I still have a Sirius|XM subscription, mainly to have as a listening option for long road trips between home and Colorado. There are plenty of zones on that 600 mile drive where there is no mobile phone coverage or decent broadcast radio stations. Having a lot of music stored on a flash memory...

The standard music player in my old Galaxy Note 5 can play MP3 files in gapless fashion. Once in awhile there might be a slight hiccup, but there's nothing on the order of second-long gaps of silence. I can listen to an album like "The Wall" by Pink Floyd and not hear any hiccups between MP3...

It's really a bit of both. Song files will be named like "01 Hells Bells," "02 Shoot to Thrill" etc. Audition usually does this automatically when you're using the Extract Audio from CD function while connected to the Internet. You'll get a preview of the file names as it previews the tracks...

Just responding directly to Mike's original post on Page 1: I have my entire CD collection ripped as LPCM WAV files and 320kb/s MP3 files. I'll usually listen to the CD quality WAVs from an external hard disc while at work via Windows Media Player. I mainly use the MP3 files to load on my phone...