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This is why damn near everyone recommends LAME.

EAC is regarded as the gold standard of accurate ripping, and accurate ripping is where it all starts.Now, once you have your pristine wave file, you'll want to encode it the best you can, and frankly, you shouldn't sacrifice quality permanently for a bit of speed temporarily. EAC is for people like me, people who buy used CDs that may not be in the best of condition, or just have less than pristine CDs lying around, or are just anal retentive enough to want to fiddle with offsets and the like.

wav files is one issue, and how you encode them is another. (note that accuracy and 'good' aren't exact correlates, since 'good' is an almost entirely subjective notion, but it's been my experience that more accuracy = better sound)Now, how you get your. And the general consensus is that LAME is the most accurate, and subjectively 'best' sounding encoder. This is all rather complex to actually do of course, but there are verifiable objective differences between the output of various MP3 encoders. However, it is the only one I PERSONALLY know for sure it is working well.No, they are not going to be the same.The reason (to simplify) is that while MP3 decoding is a (theoretically) defined process, in that there's One True Way(tm) to do it, MP3 encoding is a heuristic process.What that means is that everybody gets to do their take on what's the 'best' way to go about encoding the source into an mp3. Is Windows only, it’s not the only tool you could use. This would be the wrong place to explain this, but here is a great article going into deep detail on that Well, ripping an audio CD is an art of its own and comes with numerous caveats.

If you want to use an external USB drive, buy an internal drive and get a high quality external case for it… this is much better than buying a low accuracy external drive.

Use FLAC (lossless) as destination format.

C2 may hide errors before delivering raw data.

EAC does error correction by reading multiple times.

DISABLE C2 error correction (even if supported, most drives have bad implementations, so you want EAC doing the error correction).

Use Exact Audio Copy (EAC, Windows Only) with the guide’s settings, if you really wanna archive your audio CD content in best possible quality.

Some of the listed drives are no longer available or very expensive - maybe try to find one in used but good condition, that is not too old or worn out.

Try your existing drive before buying one - it may support all required features and it is not that important to have the most accurate one.Have fun! Hardware listing Recommendations

Recently I found a neat listing in the dbPowerAmp forum, but I added some information as well as ways to filter and sort. Therefore, I need an accurate ripping device for my audio CD collection.