CD Rippers aren't working

[Tragic]

On to my third thread of the day...

I've downloaded and installed several Rippers in anticipation of getting an ipod semi-soon. None of them work. They all tell me that they fail to find any CD-ROM drives. I have a CD-ROM and a CD-RW drive so I don't know how this could be. I've screwed around in all of their help files and have gotten no where. This has become extremely vexing.

[Dyne]

if your using windows xp you need to install aspi drivers

[Tragic]

I'm using Windows 98.

[Kenshin]

Winamp 5 (full version, which I'm sure you can find) includes ripping. So does MusicMatch Jukebox.

Try those.

[Dyne]

yeah but the apps arent seeing his drives. i know whenever i had that problem (only in winxp tho) i needed to install the aspi layer. try "force aspi" and see if that does anything for ya.

[Tragic]

I downloaded Music Match and it worked fine.

Odd.

Thanks.

[Wildkat]

98 has aspi driver issues as well, certian programs install them over when you install them.

I wouldn't be suprised if the other rippers work fine now..

BTW: Musicmatch is teh suck, if you want the best sounding MP3s possible, get EAC and LAME

Your ears will thank you for it.

[Kenshin]

BTW: Musicmatch is teh suck, if you want the best sounding MP3s possible, get EAC and LAME

Sure, the best sound MP3s possible.

But I encode in AAC with iTunes :p

[Wildkat]

Sure, the best sound MP3s possible.

But I encode in AAC with iTunes

Ive seen studies both ways, but they all tend to agree the higher bitrate VBRs sounds better than high-bitrate AAC files.

Lower bitrate AACs do sound better, but who wants low bitrate for anything other than a Flash based MP3 player?

[Kenshin]

160kbps AAC files sound just excellent to me.

Even Winamp has switched to AAC as their default encoder.