About a year back, one of my XP Pro system disks crashed irrevocably. On it was an CD-audio ripper program that I was quite fond of, but whose name I can’t recall any longer, but I’d like to.
I think it had the letters “adc” in its name (unsurprisingly), but that’s probably much too little to go on. A more useful hint is that it supported a third-party process (whose name I also cannot recall) that compared the rip of a given CD against an Internet database of ostensibly reliable rips by others. At the time, I believe it was one of only two CD rippers that supported that feature.
With respect, I’m not looking for an alternative program. I’ve tried dozens, and that was the one I was by far the happiest with.
Even if you don’t know the name of the program, if you could provide the name of the rip validation system/tool, that would give me enough to work with.
As far as the database that can validate rips, there are a number of them. EAC uses data from CDDB/Gracenote, CDex uses MusicBrainz, others use AMG LASSO.
How does the rip validation thing work? Does it use track lengths like CDDB, or does it compare a hash of every ripped file, or something else entirely?
Thanks! EAC was the second of the two I was trying to recall (the one I didn’t like as much, at least the version I used then). But your link gave me the name of the comparison/validation system I spoke of: AccurateRip.
With that, I found the name of the ripping tool I had been trying to think of, which is: dbPowerAmp (No “adc” there, so my memory was even foggier than I thought!)