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CUERipper VS dbPoweramp: Advantages & Disadvantages

What are the pros and cons of both software's and which is the best for ripping cds in bit perfect audio in wav (before anyone asks, I don't care about metadata / tagging or flac files, and I have plenty of storage for wav files)?

Re: CUERipper VS dbPoweramp: Advantages & Disadvantages

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Metadata is an important part of ripping, once you get above a certain number of files accurately accessing those files through metadata is important (be it folders or embedded metadata). Over the years we have put more effort into metadata, than was required for secure ripping (ripping error free).

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Quote from: Wickedfox on
which is the best for ripping cds in bit perfect audio in wav
Both are fully capable of this. CUETools also has the ability to repair bad rips.

Re: CUERipper VS dbPoweramp: Advantages & Disadvantages

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Quote from: Wickedfox on
What are the pros and cons of both software's and which is the best for ripping cds in bit perfect audio in wav (before anyone asks, I don't care about metadata / tagging or flac files, and I have plenty of storage for wav files)?
Wiki article: https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Comparison_of_CD_rippers
Apart from CUETools' repair ability (that can also be invoked post-ripping), they might differ in how they handle corrupted CDs. Not saying that one is better than the other for this or that - for troublemaker discs I have been using first this and then that, hoping to get something that would finally be tolerable.

I don't know if dBpoweramp has had feature updates (seems that the CUEsheet capabilities are improved?), but those are not relevant to you. I suggest that you employ a file-level checksum utility if you don't want a proper checksummed audio format.

Re: CUERipper VS dbPoweramp: Advantages & Disadvantages

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Quote from: Porcus on
I don't know if dBpoweramp has had feature updates (seems that the CUEsheet capabilities are improved?), but those are not relevant to you. I suggest that you employ a file-level checksum utility if you don't want a proper checksummed audio format.

dbpoweramp user.  Updates are relatively frequent (several times a year) and useful.  And I second the recommendation to deal with some external checksum utility if you choose not to use FLAC.   For FLAC, this is built in (and files can be checked for integrity at any time in the future in a batch manner).  This possibility is NOT built in to WAV, ALAC, or AIFF files.

p.s. I use CueTools post rip on occasion for its "repair" functionality.  It can't always repair bad data on a rip, but often can.

Re: CUERipper VS dbPoweramp: Advantages & Disadvantages

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Sorry. Meant updates relative to the wiki table. After all, it refers to freedb ... as if that is still around.

Entries for CUE generation and gap detection was updated into R14 beta.
IIRC, it detects pre-emphasis only from TOC?
And price for Reference is way outdated.

Re: CUERipper VS dbPoweramp: Advantages & Disadvantages

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* Is "Accuraterip Meta" the same thing as your freedb database? freedb.dbpoweramp.com is gone.
* EAC uses Accuraterip Meta I see. Anyone else?
* AMG "discontinued", does it mean it doesn't exist anymore (and can be deleted from table) or as the table assumes, you have discontinued it (but WMP uses it)?

Re: CUERipper VS dbPoweramp: Advantages & Disadvantages

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freedb.dbpoweramp.com

It responds to lookups, just does not have a home page.

Accuraterip Meta is not freedb, it is created from peoples final rips and edit selection of metadata in dBpoweramp, so it is the other databases combined with intelligence from users to correct errors. It currently has close to 1 million discs in the db, not bad for something which is about 1 year old.  Only dBpoweramp and EAC use it currently.

AMG does not exist as a product, dBpoweramp used to use it, perhaps WMP switched over to something else.