CD Rip - Would Accurate Rip Technology Help?

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CD Rip - Would Accurate Rip Technology Help?

Looking at the advantages within iTunes Match of starting with high quality source material, is it an advantage on initial rip to use a lossless format such as ALAC and accurate rip technology (http://www.accuraterip.com/) ?

Recent review of the topic seems to indicate that errors within Song files when ripping are relatively common, if so, this may be influencing the ability to 'match'. Does anyone have experience in this area?

iTunes 10-OTHER, Windows 7, iTunes 11

Posted on Jul 31, 2013 7:53 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 31, 2013 8:06 AM in response to mracole

When I originally matched my library, in the first month the service was available, all my music was in ALAC and the process seemed to go pretty smoothly. It just seems logical to me that the more data in the file the sample process has to work with the better, so a lossless format like ALAC would be better. I have also had very good results with MP3 @320 Kbps recently, which seems to back up my hypothesis.

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Jul 31, 2013 8:09 AM in response to Michael Allbritton

Agreed, have you tried the Accurate Rip technology to assess how many errors were present in your ALAC Song files? It has found several issues with some of my Songs, now re-ripping these to correct using high quality source drive. Would be great to know if anyone had already tried this approach?

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Answer 3

Jul 31, 2013 8:11 AM in response to mracole

I haven't use it, since I don't currently have the original source files available. I would be interested to try it in the future though.

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mracole Author

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Aug 3, 2013 7:39 AM in response to mracole

Best results achieved using lossless format and accurate rip technology, all Songs attempted worked for 'match' and 'upload' with no issues.

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