Would it not be possible for you to rip with super standard settings thus making it pretty much like every other rip?
I don't see how ripping could be so different if people use the same settings.
I don't see how ripping could be so different if people use the same settings.
The "lossy" part of MP3 is that the encoder decides to throw away frequency bands to reduce the information size.
This is more than just choosing a bitrate and being done with it - different encoders treat different bands as important or unimportant, attempting to make a smaller sized file still sound better.