Tag: rip
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How to Rip DVDs and Blu-rays the Good and Easy Way
This guide will demonstrate how easy it is to get a high quality rip of your DVD and Blu-ray Discs or ISOs at a decent speed. To do all of this we will need a few things installed first so open your Terminal and execute the following: brew install handbrake ffmpeg mkvtoolnix mp4v2 mpv libaacs […]
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How to use youtube-dl to download videos from the web (not just youtube!)
Recently I have had to download a large number of videos off the web for the purpose of archiving and transcoding. There are a lot of software products that do this but since I had to download hundreds of them at a time I decided to look into something on the command line so I […]
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Is lossless music worth the extra trouble and my thoughts on audiophiles
I just wrote an article about ripping CDs and converting audio files easily and for free and I wanted to post my view on the lossless VS lossy issue out there. For audiophiles out there who can claim they have the mythical Golden Ear which allows them to hear notes and distortions in sounds that […]
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How to rip CDs and convert audio files to WAV/OGG/MP3/ALAC/FLAC
Last year I began reorganizing my digital music collection and I made the decision to only have full albums. This meant a lot of space would be needed as I no longer went after just a few singles. At the same time I also wanted to go with a higher-quality audio format as a lot […]