Advice: CD's to Hard Drive and Back Again

Tried EAC seems to work well. So now I have to re-rip the CD's I've done using Roxio to rip WAV files? Ouch.

Thanks for the help and info folks.

ITunes is of the Devil. ;>

Thanks guys, I'll show my further ignorance by continued replies/questions.

I've looked up EAC on the internet and dl'ed a copy, what about the "jitter" associated with my CD drive? Is the "timing" correct etc? Does the EAC "fix" any problems in the reading of the CD (and subsequent burning)?

I buy all my CD's and back them up to the HD.

I'm assuming that your answers indicate that using Nero or Roxio to rip a CD to the hard drive (FLAC or WAV) is not as accurate as EAC. Correct?

My brother has a CD duplicator to back up his CD's is that a better route?

In the past, as a backup method (kind-of like recording albums and then only playing the albums on "special occasions"), I've ripped CD's to the HD as WAV files and then burned those files to CD. Any problems with that approach?

Thanks again! I'm learning, but I'm slow, old, and love music.

Not the album info. I just created a folder with the album name and put the files there.

BTW I've compared the WAV files from EAC and Roxio and they are the same. I guess the real advantage of EAC is that it will tell you if there is an error.

I've found that CD's are neither indestructable nor unscratchable. Ripping them to the HD seems like a good way to prevent the problem of destructed CD's or lost ones. As far as I'm concerned making backup CD's is a pretty painless and thoughtless process and a reasonable thing to do (uh I'm ADD and lose stuff).

Cheaper? Nope. The original CD's are almost always more costly than a burned CD. Any current CD is more costly to buy twice than a purchase of said CD and then a backup of the same one.

Second consideration: I buy the entire CD's to pay the artist for the work; often I purchase those CD's even when I like only a few songs. I then burn CD's as a compilation of various CD's of my lawfully purchased CD collection to create CD's for a "mood" or just because I want to. So I'd still like to be able to rip the CD's flawlessly and burn them flawlessly.

Hey, just color me "anal", but aren't most of us audiophiles anal?

So your questions are, for my purposes, not very helpful. I've asked how to accomplish a task, you've asked "why do you want to do that task?" (should we add the unspoken name associated with the question? - - "Why do you want to do that you *******?"). Naahh lets not do that.

I don't really want to justify why I might want to accomplish the task of ripping CD's to the HD flawlessly - I just want to accomplish my task in the best way possible. If you'd like to offer solutions then I'm all for that, but if you want to say "Why would you want to do a fool thing like that?" then I'm not in for the exchange.

Any folks out there who want to help I'm still up for listening.

Thanks again. Lostbears and 4est.

Others?