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You have learned how to rip audio tracks from an audio CD and encode them in a lossless format, for archival purposes, or on the MP3 lossy format.
In this tutorial I have used MP3 compression as an example because everybody knows about it and almost all modern portable music players support it. What you should know is that technology evolves all the time and, as the MP3 format is already 10 years old, new lossy formats have appeared that sound better than this popular format. Just a few of these formats that come in mind right now are Ogg Vorbis ("ogg") , Mpeg Plus ("mpc") or the patented MPEG-4 audio encoder ("aac"). Feel free to search on the Internet for more information about these encoder and to experiment with different qualities and formats, only you can decide what is best for you. A guide about various audio compression codecs will be on this site at a later date.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any comments or questions feel free to use the forum.
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Copyright notes
3. Tools of the trade
4. Installing Lame MP3 Encoder
5. Installing EAC (I)
6. Installing EAC (II)
7. Configuration and Ripping
8. Lossless encoding
9. Conclusion
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