After I learned in this thread that CDex is compromised and not really usable anymore, I ditched it and installed Exact Audio Copy. I ripped a CD for test purposes and now have two questions:
I set the bit-rate in the properties to 320 kBit/s. But Windows Explorer showed a bit-rate for the ripped files of 189 kBit/s. What could be the problem?
CDex created a sub-folder from the metadata of the form “Artist - Album Title” and stored the mp3 files into that folder, which was very convenient. Exact Audio Copy just directly stores the mp3 files into the top target folder, which means that I have to create a sub-folder manually and move the files myself, which is a bit clunky. Can I tell the program to automatically create a sub-folder?
You can set the settings to do this, in the naming, it wasn’t difficult, but I need to boot an older machine to see the specific values I set to artist - album/num - song name.mp3
I found the setting for file names under EAC settings and set it to “%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% %title%”, but this didn’t make a difference, though the mouseover help text told me that this would create a subfolder. Don’t know what I did wrong.
Nevermind, I figured it out. There was a tab in preferences called “further filenames”, and I had put the code in there, while I should have put it in “filenames”. Now it works fine.