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I’ve now been ripping my movie discs to my Plex server for over two years! This stuff takes time :) I’d like to redo my CDs since my digital music collection is a hodgepodge of formats and qualities and I’d like to standardize it with one choice of a high quality format instead of mix and match...

I don’t think you’re wrong, FWIW. I ripped the majority of my collection as 320kbps MP3s nearly two decades ago and those rips have sufficed. I may do them one more time now that I have a Plex server to get them all in either uncompressed or lossless, but it’s a low priority daydream. For the...

I thought the car did WAV, I must I’ve missed where it didn’t. I don’t disagree with any of that, I was just interpreting the parameters of the assignment differently. I think EAC is fine enough but I really think whatever they’re calling iTunes these days is the gold standard for this sort of...

Maybe I’m missing something but from Mike’s initial post I got the impression that he wanted to put his CDs at CD quality onto an external hard drive he already had.

I’d argue that hard drive space is cheap enough now that it’s worth selecting the WAV or AIFF encoder over MP3/MP4, particularly if it’s for listening on the home system. Other than that, I really do think the iTunes interface makes it as easy as it can be.

Here’s my two cents on that: Burst mode should be fine. What’s the worst case scenario? That you discover in six months or a year that one of your rips has an imperfection and you need to grab the CD and do it again? The time saved ripping faster will more than make up for any fixes you have to...

Try ripping a single disc to WAV or AIFF and see if your car can play that. If so, just rip everything to that format. Much simpler than doing both WAV and MP3 versions of the same files.

I don’t think that’s excessive, I just don’t think it’s helpful to Mike’s question of how to rip his CDs.

I haven’t been PC in years but I used to use EAC and can also vouch for it being a great ripping program to get a basic WAV or FLAC file.

Are you using a Mac or PC? I use iTunes - which works on both platforms but I think Apple may have renamed it based on which device you’re using it on - and rip my discs using the Apple Lossless setting. You can have iTunes handle the organization of the files, which is basically: Artist...