My Recent Experience with Ripping

I ripped all of my (approximately) 1000 CDs to WAVE files using iTunes. I know very little about digital subjects as they relate to home audio. Is there a better way to rip CDs and to maximize sound quality? Is iTunes as good as it gets? I'm about to purchase a new high end audio system and was wondering how I get the best sound quality from ripping my CDs? Once I rip all of my CDs my main source will be streaming.
 
bluegrassphile said:
I ripped all of my (approximately) 1000 CDs to WAVE files using iTunes. I know very little about digital subjects as they relate to home audio. Is there a better way to rip CDs and to maximize sound quality? Is iTunes as good as it gets? I'm about to purchase a new high end audio system and was wondering how I get the best sound quality from ripping my CDs? Once I rip all of my CDs my main source will be streaming.
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After you have done 1000 CDs I hate to tell you that ITunes might be one of the worse ways to rip your music. In fact, in case you have not heard, Apple announced that ITunes is being discontinued. So you might as well find a better ripping solution.

DBPoweramp and Exact Audio Copy are the best rippers imo. DBP has better GUI than EAC.

WAV files were not originally designed to have metadata embedded. I recommend ripping to FLAC files. Not only can you embed metadata into FLAC files but they can be easily converted to any other format. If you want to maintain the Apple environment, Apple’s lossless version of FLAC is called ALAC. You can easily convert FLAC files to ALAC, AIFF (another Apple Music file), wav, mp3, etc.

If you want the best sound, I would rip your CDs again using a better ripper.
 
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