Leyn

You write: "Because of the way joint stereo works, it requires less bits to produce a certain quality level than standard stereo does." What happens when you choose for the "Joint" encoder setting? Or the quality remains the same but the file size decreases, or the file size remains the same and the quality is increased. Can you give an URL where this is explained in more detail? Can you take action, so that this gets in the help pages? Do you have the paying versions? Which version? Perhaps you also know what "Force" means. The sentence about it in the help page clarifies nothing, it only makes the mystery greater.

Ripping makes a copy of the tracks, often with loss of information. What is meant by ripping is that you are stealing the copyrights. In Belgium you are allowed to posses one copy of a copyrighted work like a audio CD. E.g. 1:you buy a audio CD. you are allowed to make one verbatim copy on a writable CD (for example for your weekend home). You are also allowed to rip the cda tracks to for example mp3, download them on your mp3 player, and listen to them. E.g. 2: you rent an audio CD from a media library. You are not allowed to make a verbatim copy because the original belongs to the library. You are also not allowed to rip to mp3 because then you rip, steal the cost of the audio CD from the author of the CD. You are not allowed to make a copy because it is not you who have bought the audio CD. If you want to listen to the CD or near equivalent mp3 tracks you must buy the audio CD. By copying, you rip or steal revenues from the author/singer.

Dear, I press the button "setting" in Express Rip. There, I take "custom" and set the string to {%n2 - %t} Express Rip handles this wrongly. E.g. track 01 with name "Temp pour nous" is written out as "01 . Temp pour nous.aac". Instead of a hyphen, a point is written out. This is a bug. In fact, the point is written out by default, the specified hyphen is simply ignored. If you rip a CD it would be better to write in the "Extract CD Track(s)" window Loading "Perles de pluie" instead of Loading Perles de pluie. I tried the album "Jardin Secret" of "Axelle Red". This a French singer and her songs carry French names with accents. Express Rip is handling these accents wrong. E.g.: "Romantique à mort". In the track table of Express Rip, the à is gone. In the filename that is written out, the same is true. In the "Extract CD Track(s)" it is correct. These are two bugs. The same is true for the track "Ce don't le monde à besoin", "Naïve" and "Fruits défendu". If we consider the same CD some other thing are bugy. It is a CD with data on it next to the song tracks. If the CD is loaded, and you start Express Rip, he says "No CDDB match found". In the FAQ it is written this is the case because it is not a proper audio CD or because the CD is not currently listed in the freeDB database. This is wrong. Express should distinguich between both cases and write out a correct error message. In this case this would be that it is not a proper audio CD, and he should access the freedb database and identify the tracks. When the CD is ejected, and loaded again when Express Rip is already running he says correctly that it is not a proper audio CD and displays the names of the tracks (he has accessed freedb). This should also happen when Express Rip is started when the CD is already loaded. A bugfixed version for download would be great. Best regards, Francky