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RE: Ripping with dBpoweramp

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In Reply to: RE: Ripping with dBpoweramp posted by dbphd on March 20, 2017 at 05:48:09

Thanks for your response.

Which version of dbpoweramp ripper have you got? Where is this facility?

CDs are 16 bit. You can't rip one to any higher bit depth. You could upsample one to a higher bit depth ( this is actually just adding digital zeros as there is no creation of more data) but dbpoweramp ripper does not have an upsampling algorithm. So I am puzzled. Are you looking not at the ripper but at one of the conversion programs ( Music Converter, Batch Converter) that are bundled with it?

My advice in any case is not to rip except on a 1:1 basis for data. Upsampling or other DSP processes can produce artifacts that may become wearisome after a time. Furthermore technology changes so what may look like a good idea now won't necessarily be so in the future. In any case ripping to 32bit may limit you to a small range of replay hardware.

So make your master rips a straight copy of the CDs. Then you can make a copy of the rips and play around with those to your heart's content without having to re-rip everythiing when you may decide that e.g. upsampling or whatever, is not for you.

And don't forget to make backups.

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