Posted by NRen2k5 on 12/08/05 00:14

CES wrote:
> All,
> I'm in the process of re-ripping all of my CD's and I have a few
> Questions before I start... I have always stayed away from AAC and WMA
> because of copy protection and their for I have encoded at 328kb in an
> MP3 format...

You can make your own AAC's and WMA's without the protection. It's just
that when you buy them online they're 99% certain to have protection.

> If you encode using AAC is the file tied to the computer (ie: is copy
> protection added)? If so is their a way of getting around that??

No, protection isn't necessarily added. In fact, in the case of freeware
tools like FAAC, protection isn't even an option! :)

> If you use one of the programs available to remove AAC copy protection
> do you lose sound quality?

I don't know of any programs that actually *remove* copy protection. The
ones I know of just basically *get around it* and record a new file. So
yes you will lose sound quality.

> If I encode using the AAC Lossless Encoder is their a way of
> reconstituting the file back into the wav format without losing sound
> quality?

There's no such thing as "AAC Lossless". You must be thinking of "Apple
Lossless" (ALAC for short, I think).

> Does anyone know of an application that will allow you to put in a CD
> and then with one push of the button rip the CD in multiple formats
> (MP3, AAC, WMA) at the same time? By that I mean most video editing
> programs will allow you to take one source and then export it to
> multiple formats.

Hmm. Yes, I think you can do that with Exact Audio Copy and probably any
other ripper that can use CLI encoders. You'll need to use something
called MAREO with the encoders (such as LAME for MP3, FAAC for AAC and
the WMA9 SDK for WMA) to actually encode to all of them in one go.

- NRen2k5

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