Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/04/05 23:31

Any of the freeware rippers will rip to WAV without additional plug-ins.
WAV is the format they use as an intermediary for their plug-ins to work
with. If you don't use a plug-in, then they just give you WAV's.

Oh, personally, I recommend Exact Audio Copy or CDex as a CD ripper.
Both of these are "secure" rippers, meaning they are programmed to check
for errors on the CD and re-check to make sure they're getting the
proper data.

- NRen2k5

seani wrote:
> LOL, no, it's either lossless, or it isn't :) (although to be fair
> Apple lossless, erm, wasn't)
>
> Think of a FLAC files as a Zipped WAV file: if you converrt FLAC ->
> WAV, you'll end up with a file that's identical to the original WAV.
>
> But if disk space isn't an issue, there's no harm in ripping direct to
> WAV. IIRC dbpoweramp will rip to WAV without any addional plugins.
>
> It also has a nice batch mode that let's you point it at a directory
> and recursively convert to your chosen format, preserving the directory
> structure. Download it and have a play.
>

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