EAC vs dbpoweramp

Ok I remember there being a discussion on changstar that was, but now what is everyone's opinion:

Is dbpoweramp worth the price premium over exact audio copy?

I hear that EAC is a bitch to set up and dbpoweramp is slightly better sound quality anyways. I haven't used either but am thinking about purchasing db.

 

I don't think there will be any repeatable audible difference between the two. But I have not used either in a long time. My big beef with dbPoweramp is years ago I bought the license. When I went back to use it a few months ago. I had to do a free version upgrade but now I can only decode or transcode two file types like mp3 and wav. If memory serves, I do not think I could transcode aiff to flac or wav for example or something like that. It made DB poweramp usess to me.

So I went over to my mac and just use XLD for any transcoding, even though I am having some trouble getting album artist info to come over.

 

No as EAC is free and can be configured to make exact rips; dbpower amp can't as it doesn't have a true, block by block secure mode. Just follow the guide written for a certain torrent website you can find in a few places for setting up EAC and your rips will be perfect. Just follow the guide and everything will be easy; it even has cut and paste command line settings for configuring the FLAC compressor. dbpoweramp only reads CDs in bursts even if you set it for "secure" mode. They both use accuraterip so essentially if the CD hasn't been ripped securely a bunch of times in the accuraterip database, you can't be sure in ripping it with dbpoweramp as there won't be any accurate check sums to for AccurateRip to compare your rip to.

 

I use EAC all the time for ripping into FLAC, even though I also have JRiver MC.

 

cool I'll pm you later

oh man I thought MAX audio ripper was awsome back when I was on macs.

really? dbpoweramp swears by its secure ripping, https://www.dbpoweramp.com/secure-ripper.htm
however I haven't been able to find any forum that verifies said claims.

 

I like dbpoweramp because you can setup a multi encoder which will rip to multiple file formats simultaneously with whatever kind of of dsp settings you want and the ability to automatically create playlists and have them saved to dynamic folders the program will create according to your specification. It also takes full advantage of multi-core cpus which is awesome. EAC will certainly get the job done, but it's a pain in the ass to setup comparatively. I guess that's usually how it goes with open source software though.

 

I love EAC. Takes a little work to get set up, but there are plenty of step by step guides out there.

 

CUETools.

 

I use XLD to downsample hi-res tracks to get a copy that will play on iOS devices. Never had any issues.

I use Max to transcode FLAC to Apple Lossless or Apple Lossless to mp3.

 

I use EAC to rip my CDs to FLAC/CUE. This may be archaic now that optical media is slowly becoming unused. For new rips, I will probably change to file-per-track FLAC/CUE. I use EAC because of the AccuRip feature, and it uses error correction and almost paranoia modes to rip. I have EAC do LAME encodes to 256-VBR q0 MP3s. EAC uses 1 core per track, so 8-way encoding on my hardware.

Maybe over the summer, I will reencode to 256-AAC, probably through EAC.