Hi All,

This is the official RNS ripper pack, it is intended ONLY for RNS people....
anyways for experienced users, this should be easy..for people who just started
ripping this will be a little difficult at first but they should ease into
it...anyways let's get down to business:

First of all make SURE you unzip this with the -d option, preferably with
winzip as some programs have long filenames...anyways here is a brief
description of the utilities included here:

rippers:

audiogr.zip       Audio Grabber, one of the better rippers out there, can rip
                  to wav and also to mp3 using the codec, you can also set
                  audiogr to encode to mp3 using one of the mp3dos programs
                  included here, just setup a batch file
cdda203.zip       The FULL version of CD-DA Extractor 2.0.3 , this is imho the
                  BEST ripper out there, does a great job of ripping tracks and
                  ccan encode to mp3 using the windows internal codec , use
                  %a-%t-%i-%n-RNS for filename (when you choose the tracks and
                  copy selected tracks) also supports cddb which is awesome..
                  cddb is the cd database they keep records of all the cds ever
                  made w/ track listings etc etc...good shit and saves a load
                  of time
cdcopy.zip        Version 4.008 of cdcopy, full version....nice ripper, doesn't
                  work that well for me personally but it is PACKED with
                  options, I've included default.opt which is all the RNS
                  options just load it up at startup File, Load options etc
                  ...ez ...and you are all set...this one uses ANY type of mp3
                  encoder u want check it out has loads of options, great stuff
                  but like I said, unless I use my cd-r this thing doesn't rip
                  right for me

encoders:

aasetup.exe       Audioactive Production Studio, the latest and greatest
                  windows mp3-encoding program from Fraunhoffer IIS This is
                  supposed to be one of the fastest, clearest mp3 encoders, I
                  tried it and it works great, crisper output than MP3 Producer
                  Pro and a little bit faster if you set it on high priority 
l3codecx.exe      The latest Windows codec for MP3 compression, must have :)

mp3dos.zip        A compilation of l3enc,l3dec and mp3enc.exe all dos based mp3
                  encoders, great stuff but unless u run NT or dos they will be
                  too slow for you....the txt instructions are also included
prodps.zip        MP3 Producer Pro 2.1 , this one needs no introduction :)

Just FYI, I encoded a 3 mins 20 secs song using MP3 Prod pro 2.1, it took 5:30
with MP3 Prod and with aa studio on high priority it took 5:25 , I have a AMD
K6 200 oced to 210 mhz ...quite fast ...but as you can see not much difference
in time, but the aa studio sounds better to me..

misc:

id3edit.zip       A generic ID3 tagger, cdda, cdcopy, and even AG auto tag if
                  you fil out the info properly..so not much use but what the
                  hell


This ripper pack was done by Enforcer of RNS, if you need more help or have
questions or want to get updates or whatever get a hold of me on our channels
or on the mailing list

Thanks to Trick and Al Capone for all their hard work and effort to keep RNS #1

Also, there is no substition to this rule of mp3 encoding : ALWAYS ALWAYS hear
your own rips on mp3 to make sure they are ok... there is no 100% reliable way
of ripping everything properly..so ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR RIPS ppl, RNS stands
for quality...take pride in your rips

Additional Notes:

The mp3enc/l3enc/l3dec should be registered as I just took them off my hdd but
just in case they aren't here is the reg info:

mp3enc:
MPEG Layer-3 Encoder v3.00: Name: B  Walker    s/n: [redacted]

l3enc:
L3encode e decode DOS v1.7:  s/n: [redacted]
L3ENC:                       s/n: [redacted]
L3ENC 2.xx:                  s/n: [redacted]