mp3 to cdr back to mp3...recommendations?

[The Mad Hater]

I had to re-format my hard drive, and instead of burning my mp3's in mp3 format, I burned them into cdR format...I was in a hurry and wasn't really thinking about what I was doing. anyway, now that I'm ready to rip them back onto hard disk, I was wondering if I should rip them as wav's or back to mp3 at highest possible bitrate. does it make a difference at this point? if they were at 192 and up originally, will they sound like poop if I rip them from cdR back to 320?

[The Sheck]

Hhmm...I would probably rip them at the rate they were before you burned them to CD-R. Even when you uncompress them to wav, it's still a wav from a 192 mp3 (for example). The sound quality probably won't be as good as it could have been if you rip them into a tighter compression. Being a sound junkie, I couldn't handle doing that. ;)

[DogStarMan]

Originally posted by The Mad Hater
I had to re-format my hard drive, and instead of burning my mp3's in mp3 format, I burned them into cdR format...I was in a hurry and wasn't really thinking about what I was doing.
You were in a hurry to do something that would take more time. You must not have that many MP3s, or you must have used up a whole lot of CDRs. :rolleyes:

MusicMatch will do the trick for you. The quality will be crap, but oh well. The only other thing you could do is get the original CDs and re-rip them to MP3.

[The Mad Hater]

no, there weren't a whole lot of mp3's on it, but I didn't want to lose them since I had no backups or cd's. less than two dozen. I ended up just ripping them back as wav's, I was just asking in case anyone had done anything that ponderous before and knew the best way to go with it.

[Nepenthean]

Dunno, but don't use MusicMatch to rip any CD's when you can use Easy CD-DA Extractor 6. It's available on download.com or poikosoft.com. Awesome little piece of software for audio format conversion and CD ripping/recording.

[DogStarMan]

Originally posted by Nepenthean
Dunno, but don't use MusicMatch to rip any CD's when you can use Easy CD-DA Extractor 6.
Why not?

[The Mad Hater]

yeah, why? curious.

I've always used CyberLink, which allows you to use winmedia to rip mp3's instead of wma's. the software's only like ten bucks I think. it's peachy.