CD Ripping for Oladra Gen 4, AMS V5. Only rips into compressed mode FLAC. Should be Uncompress

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Hi Mark,

What is the reason there is a copy of the rip in wav format in the .tmp folder?

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The CD is ripped to .wav and then converted to FLAC level 0.
The wav file is deleted by the OS after a reboot, or after two weeks if no reboot.

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looks like the CD is being ripped into compressed FLAC again? a 7 minutes song should be more than 45mb but that’s what I got starting yesterday.

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I find that if you try to rip a CD and the program cannot find the album online, then the rips will be done in FLAC compressed.
But if the CD album titles etc are found, then it will be ripped FLAC uncompressed.
I still wish Antipodes will give more ripping options in the software.
Rips are currently done in Wave and then converted to FLAC. The ripper creates temp Wave files, converts to FLAC and then erases the temp Wave files. I would like to be able to rip in Wave, and leave as is. I can then convert the files on my own using dBPoweramp offline.

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Why not just rip using dBpoweramp? One advantage is that it will use the AccurateRip database to confirm that the rip is accurate. I don’t believe the ripper that Antipodes uses does this.

PerfectTunes is another excellent product from the same company. This can check the accuracy of rips done using another ripper. I initially ripped CDs using iTunes. A number of those rips failed the accuracy test (mostly because of how I handled CDs back in the day where many got played in my car). On occasion I have had to replace CDs just to be able to get an accurate rip.

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Antipodes offers connection to have a CD ripper attached to its servers to be ripped directly to the server. I have an audiophile grade ripper attached to my Oladra on my audio rack. Everything on that rack has power conditioning and so does my CD ripper. If I use dBpoweramp, it’s on my PC, away from my audio rack. So 2 reasons:

  1. Antipodes advertises that its servers can rip FLAC uncompress. When this fails, then it a problem that Antipodes must fix.
  2. I prefer to rip directly to my Antipodes server with an audiophile CD ripper connected directly. I have done enough testing to conclude that ripping using a standard PC with standard PC grade rippers even wuth dBPoweramp is not as good.
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Interesting, thanks for replying.