Audio Tutorials

Introduction

This section of the site contains tutorials on how to convert your collection of audio CDs to MP3 and other lossless compression formats (other formats to come in the future). You could then use these compressed, space saving files for playback on your PC or one of the portable audio devices available today (assuming you've chosen a format that your device supports).

There also is a guide on how to create gapless audio CDs from just about any audio format, including MP3s. There are not many options available that let you properly create gapless CDs from MP3.

These guides are designed for the novice.

Since MP3 is still the most widely used format the guides will initially concentrate on making the highest quality MP3s using what music-reviewed.com believes is the best software available (it's all free too!). At some stage in the future the guides will be expanded to cover other formats such as AAC and Musepack.

If you have any questions or comments regarding these guides either send us an email or ask at the forums.

The Tutorials

The Tools
Here we discuss the tools we'll use for digital audio extraction. If you are new to EAC (Exact Audio Copy), this would be a good place to start.

Down-loading And Installing EAC And LAME
This section describes where to down-load EAC and Lame from and how to install them.

Configuring EAC pt1 | pt2
Details on how to configure EAC to extract the audio from an audio CD, compressed or uncompressed.

Configuring EAC For Ripping To Lossless
Once you have EAC correctly configured you can refer to this section for details on how to extract digital audio to a lossless (perfect copy of original audio) format.

Let's Start Ripping!
With a correctly configured EAC you can find out how to simply rip your CDs.

ASPI Layers
A section on how to rectify any problems with EAC not being able to see your drive.

Creating Audio CDs
A small guide on how to create gapless audio CDs, even with MP3.