Copy an Audio CD without Quailty Loss?

[LegendDJ]

how can i copy an audio cd without any quailty loss? i pretty much want to clone an cd audio for back up reasons with out any quailty loss. whats the best and quickest way to do this?

i had the idea of just extracting the cds image using golden hawk's cdrwin to a bin and bruning that? would that work with out any quailty loss? for those who know the program.

thanks in advance.

[BigBellyBilly]

you should considering ripping using one of the lossless encoders such as flac http://flac.sourceforge.net/

you can play them directly with xbmc but another option flac gives you is the ability to recode to whatever other flavour of (lossy/smaller) audio format you like at a later date - then redo them if a new one comes out.

[anywonder]

you could do it through xbmc with dvd2xbox too (I *think* it supports flac)

[colinsm]

Nero and others have a "copy disc" feature

[lexicon]

the ultimate cd ripper is ExactAudioCopy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de), and it's free. It is truly the only way to get guaranteed error-free audio, don't be fooled by anything else. Also, please check out the HydrogenAudio forums, too.

[xino]

i suggest Media Monkey 5/5 when it comes to burning cd!

[flasher]

Nero is the best!!

[shabbs]

The one, the only: Slysoft CloneCD!

http://www.slysoft.com/en/clonecd.html

For perfect 1:1 backups.

Cheers.