IPOD - How To?

[Excess2142]

Hi all,

I received an Ipod fifth generation for my birthday \o/

Now does anyone have any tips on the following?

• What CD ripper to use I find that Itunes isn’t very good at all but I do like it to sort out my music

• What’s the best way to rip a DVD on to the ipod? (please state how and what to use as I have no idea)

• I have an ITRIP which uses the dock , and the songs on the ipod seem to be quite through my car speakers is there anything I can change by ripping to make the music louder?


Thanks in advanced

Excess2142

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Any ripper based on the "lame" codec are going to be among the best. CDEX does that on windows. I just use iTunes on Mac. Have you tried ripping at a higher bitrate?

To tip a DVD to the ipod you need the following:
Handbrake and set it to max 2500bps for mpeg-4 or 768 for h.264

[Excess2142]

Does Itunes do this LAME Codec?

[Excess2142]

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3185/handsp4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

any chance of a shot of what to change?

[Excess2142]

Handbreak is pants for Windows anyway , it doesn't pick up the DVD's