Since the introduction of the CD it has become easy to own music practically forever. But as CD collections grow it can be difficult to keep track of what you have.
Fortunately the simultaneous development of the personal computer makes it easy to do just that. And several programs have been written to help you keep track of your discs.
New Afterdawn guide
Catalog your audio CDs with Music Collector
Result for: audio cds
Over the last few years Exact Audio Copy (EAC) has gotten a reputation as one of the best (if not the very best) audio CD ripping tool around. Despite being officially designated as “prebeta” software it’s actually one of the most reliable and full-featured audio tools available. We’ve recently added three guides that take you from installation to ripping CDs, and even explain how to work with the unusual CD Image backups it produces. But before you read these guides you may want to find out more about the program to see if it’s right for you.
Secure Ripping
Although most people tend to think of CDs as sounding the same every time they’re played, in reality almost every time a disc is read there are errors. With modern media like DVD, or even CD-ROMs, this can be dealt with using very sophisticated error correction to re-create the original data. Audio CDs, on the other hand, primarily use a strategy of hiding errors instead of correcting them. While this increases the amount of damage it takes to audibly reduce quality, it also increases the complexity of performing perfect backups.
Afterdawn’s new EAC guides
Exact Audio Copy Installation and Configuration
Result for: audio cds
Buyers in Canada will soon be faced with higher prices for blank CDs (CD-Rs), as the Canadian Copyright Board has just increased the levy on the media in an effort to “compensate the music industry for potential duplication of copyrighted material.”
The new levies will increase by 38 percent, to 29 cents. The first levy was implemented in 1999 with the intention of helping to compensate the record industry. The idea is that customers will buy blank CDs to duplicate purchased audio CDs or downloaded albums, which will therefore cause massive losses to the music industry and its artists.
Obviously, the Board has not taken into consideration users who will use the CDs to backup their computers or who will copying their own work.
Secretary General of the Copyright Board of Canada, Claude Majeau added: “Two main factors led the Board to raise the CD levy rate to 29¢. First, the mechanical royalties that record labels pay to record a song onto a prerecorded CD have increased. Second, because consumers now use compression technology when they record music, the average number of music tracks copied onto a CD went from 15 to more than 18.”
