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Elevate Your Audio

How to upgrade your music library...

Do you want better performance from your car audio system? One of the first places to start is to upgrade your music files. Newer cars and car audio source units have moved away from physical media (CDs and Cassettes). Most newer car audio systems use USB data inputs as well as streaming audio (Bluetooth or Wifi). The quality of your distal recordings has a significant impact on the sound quality you can expect from your car audio system. We hope that the following guide will help you learn efficient ways to make or purchase higher quality digital versions of the music you love.

Upgrading your music library to higher quality digital files is a great way to improve the performance of your car audio system.

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Why should I RIP music from my CDs?

MP3s are convenient, but no matter how high the bit rate, they are still compressed, lossy music files.

Starting with your own CD collection, this guide will help you rip your music to digital FLAC files  (free lossless audio codec)

Ripping Software

What Software Should I Use to RIP my CDs? 

Apps that help you RIP your CDs to digital files

A losslessly compressed file ripped at 16 bit / 44.1 kHz retains the same audio quality as your CDs.

FLAC is a good option due to the excellent sound quality it makes possible and high level of compatibility. 

Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

for Windows

Exact Audio Copy recognizes inserted audio-CDs automatically. Once you choose one of the formats and the tracks you intend to copy, the ripping process is ready to start.

X Lossless Decoder (XLD)

for Mac

X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

XLD is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on Intel Macs, PPC Macs, and the latest ARM Macs.

To Audio Converter & Tag Editor

for Mac

Convert 200+ audio and video formats, online multimedia, playlists, and Internet shortcuts to quality MP3, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, and AAC formats.

To Audio Converter can accept unknown file formats for conversion as well - just drop files in!

What if I don't have my CDs?

Where can I purchase high quality, digital recordings?

If you no longer have your CD collection, here are some sites that allow you to purchase and/or download music.

Most of these sites have CD quality or better digital music files available.

iTrax

The home of real high-definition music downloads and the first hi-res music download site.

All the recordings on this site were recorded, mixed, and mastered at 96 kHz/24 bits!

HD Tracks

The World's Greatest Sounding Music Downloads!

Bowers and Wilkins Society of Sound

Subscribe to Society of Sound to download High Quality albums from Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios and the London Symphony Orchestra.

All available in Apple Lossless and Studio Quality FLAC 48 kHz/24 bit

Melodishop

This site mostly sells MP3s but had a large selection of music available as CD Quality FLAC Message me for a referral code that gets you 30 free downloads when you sign up

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