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"I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I'm now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I've read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don't come with power adapters -- and as a consequence the portable drives don't work with them properly -- or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!"
I used my iPod for music in my car via a FM transmitter but the interference and such really got on my nerve, so now I've put music on CDs, but it has been ripped at 128kbps, and when I put in a store bought CD you really hear the difference. How can somebody prefer the lower quality sound? Now I'm in the process of re-ripping my CDs (100 or so). Does anybody know the best way quality wise for burning your own discs?
This is a tutorial of how to rip one of the most accurate copies of your CD onto your hard drive:
http://www.soniconthenet.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2656
I have used this for the few video game and Anime OSTs that I actually bought just to make sure that I have a backed up copy somewhere just in case I lose my CDs or my house catches on fire or some other disaster happens to take away my material possessions.
I use dBpoweramp Batch Ripper to rip my CD's. It is the most automated system I have used. You put a disc in the drive, it looks up the info online and rips it. When done it eject's and you put in the next disc and it starts ripping by automatically.
Then I use dBpoweramp Music Converter to convert to FLAC. If can of course rip to other formats, but FLAC is what I use.