I recently started to re rip some of my CD’s and naturally wanted the best mp3 compression I could find. By best compression I could find I mean the highest quality and not the smallest size.
I am interested in quality from my rips and anything under 320kps just won’t do anymore. I don’t really care about the size as space isn’t a premium any more on hard discs or portable players like my 16 gb iphone 3g.
The obvious choice here is using Exact Audio Copy (EAC) and LAME encoder. The process of setting this up isn’t totally easy but once setup properly makes for simple ripping and little need for re-tagging. (unless you are a perfectionist like me)
There are many different settings for LAME encoder and it can be tailored to suit your needs.
I looked out for a guide on settings and found the only settings guide you will ever need down at Hydrogen Audio’s superb wiki
The general consensus is that if you want the highest possible quality loss less rip of a CD using LAME the switch you need is ‘ -b 320 ‘ .
I have made several rips at this level and In Part 2 of this post I will show how to setup EAC and LAME for propper MP3ing of CD’s.
In part 3 I will dip my toes into the world of Loss less compression for proper arching of CD’s!
I was looking recently for a way of mass deleting a bunch of crappy forked apple hidden files.
I hate these things and thought there must be a way of doing this in dos so i started to play.
Basically the code is:
del /s /q /ah *.*
I shall explain the bits now for you non dos people out there. Firstly you need to be in dos so the best way is to get to the command prompt and you can get to this via the start button and clicking on run. When the prompt comes up type in cmd and press return.
Now navigate to the folder you want to run this against.
Mine was on the desktop so I navigated there, then entered the top del command.
The switches in order:
Del = delete
/s = all sub-directories
/q = quiet mode (doesn’t ask to delete on every file)
/ah = attribute is hidden
and there you go, this will remove all those pesky hidden files
enjoy