CD Ripping Tools

Express Rip is a fast, and easy-to-use tool to extract (rip) music from your Audio CDs and convert it to to mp3, wma, m4a, aac, aiff or wav files on your local PC. It supports adjustable output quality settings as well as variable bitrate. Express Rip uses a proprietary digital extraction method that produces very fast extraction speeds. The program also supports online lookup of artist and album information via FreeDB.

AudioEdit Deluxe is a visual audio editing, conversion and (audio) burning solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data. It includes CD With AudioEdit Deluxe you can perform two-way conversions among CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, and OGG; open, create, and save audio files in any of the supported formats (can also save any portion of a loaded file to disk as a new file); display audio data waveform (Zoom Full, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom Vertical); play audio files or any portion of the files (Play, Pause, Stop); record audio data from a microphone or any other available input device; edit audio files visually (Cut, Copy, Delete Selection, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste From File, Mix, Mix From File); apply various effects (Amplify, Delay, Equalize, Fade In and Fade Out, Flanger, Invert, Normalize, Reverse, Multi Tap Delay, Silence, Stretch, Vibrato); apply different filters to any selected portion of audio files (Band Pass Filter, Fourier Filter, High Pass Filter, High Shelf Filter, Low Pass Filter, Low Shelf Filter, Notch Filter); insert into audio files (Noise, Pulse Signal, Silence, Sine Signal); Insert information into audio files (Album, Artist, Copyright, Genre, Title, Year); complete, multi-level undo and redo capabilities. The following audio formats are supported by the audio editing and playback module: WAV PCM; Compressed WAV (ADPCM, GSM, DSP, A-LAW, U-LAW, ALF2, and more); MP3 (MPEG Layer-3); VOX (Dialogic ADPCM); WMA (Windows Media Audio); RAW (PCM, A-LAW, U-LAW); CDA (Audio CD Tracks).

Blaze Media Pro is an all-in-one audio/video converter (two-way among CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, FLIC, etc.), and also an editor and recorder. In addition, it can burn audio, video (VCD/SVCD), and data CDs and DVDs. Other features include video capture, media management, audio merge, drag and drop support, MP3/WMA/OGG and proprietary WAV tag editing, CDDB support and more. Blaze Media Pro provides a compact, skinnable interface with integrated media player

AudioCommander allows you to convert between most audio formats, and offers a Windows interface, as well as command line conversion. The conversions are performed directly from format to format, which increases conversion speed and eliminates potential quality loss. You can adjust settings for bitrate, frequency, channels, and more, transfer audio tags from one format to another and change the compression for supported formats. Additional features include options to delete original files after conversion, sub-directory processing, CDDB integration and more. AudioCommander supports conversions to MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, MP2, ADPCM, A-LAW, u-LAW, DSP, GSM, or VOX.

LP Ripper is a simple application that can make the task of converting vinyl LPs, tapes and cassettes to MP3 files or CDs easier. The program can take an existing WAV file and split it into multiple segments (based on silence detection) and then save the segments as individual WAV or MP3 files. Also includes a simple audio editor to adjust the start and end of a track.

Smart CD Ripper is an easy to use audio CD ripper that allows you to extract and convert music from your audio CDs. It can automatically convert the files to MP3 or OGG and offers additional configuration options to set output quality. It supports variable bitrate, emphasis, and psycho-acoustics analysis. Additional features include integration with FreeDB to retrieve track information and automatic ID3 tagging of the converted files, as well as automatic playlist (.m3u) creation.

Handy CD Ripper enables you to extract (rip) files and audio content from CD and DVD discs. When ripping music tracks from Audio CDs, the program can automatically convert them to MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA or AAC format and look-up artist information and track titles via FreeDB. Other features include ISO, CUE/BIN creation, built-in CD player, support for variable bit rate, support for ASPI layer and customizable output names.

Blaze MediaConvert is a powerful multimedia batch converter supporting conversion among over 60 image, audio, animation, and video formats quickly and easily. It enables you to batch convert among nearly all multimedia formats, including two-way conversions among CD, MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG, WAV/MP3 Compression, etc. as well as two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, Animated GIF, Multi-Page TIFF, and FLIC video formats. The built-in Video Decompiler allows you to save all frames within the selected video as single images. In addition, the full featured CD Recorder lets you to burn MP3 and WAV files to CDR and CDR/W. Blaze MediaConvert also includes a CD ripper, with CDDB support. The program is easy to use, simply select the type of conversion you want to perform and add the files to convert.

EZ SoftMagic MP3 CD Ripper is an easy to use tool to extract (rip) music from Audio CDs, and save them directly to MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG files files. It offers FreeDB integration, so most of your CDs can be recognized, named and tagged automatically. The program also includes an audio converter, that can be used to convert between MP3, WAV, OG and WMA files. Other features include support for Jitter Correction, and pre-defined output qualities.

ACDR (Audio Compact Disc Reader) enables you to extract (rip) songs from AudioCDs and automatically convert them to a wide variety of different formats, including 3G2, 3GP, AAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA and many others. The program offers a 3-step wizard with support for FreeDB lookups, adjustable audio quality and bitrate settings, file name templates (with folder creation) and more. Other features include support for Replay Gain, jitter and scratch correction, track merging, playlist creation and more. ACDR works with most CD-ROM and DVD hardware and supports both SPTI, ASPI32 and Raw-Read interfaces for maximum compatibility.

CD to MP3 Ripper rips audio CD tracks and saves them to MP3, WAV, WMA, VQF or OGG Vorbis format. The MP3 encoder supports CBR (Constant Bit Rate) and VBR (Variable Bit Rate) as well as four channel modes including Stereo, Join Stereo, Mono and Dual Channel. CD to MP3 Ripper allows you to adjust the MP3, WAV and WMA quality settings to increase or decrease the speed of ripping operations. Other features include ID3 tagging of converted MP3 files, FreeDB integration, separate audio conversion interface, and more.

MP3 WAV Studio is an all-in-one solution for converting, ripping, burning and playing of audio files. In addition, the program can also create, encode, decode and convert between MP3 and other formats. Additional features include jitter-correction for ripping of scratched CDs, burn proof, batch conversions, drag and drop playlist creation, as well as a MP3 site manager and more. MP3 WAV Studio supports all popular audio formats, including MP3, WMA, OGG, VOX, WAV and others.

MP3Producer is an all-in-one, easy to use CD ripper and MP3 encoder. It can rip your CD and automatically convert the files to MP3 or WAV in the progress. In addition, it can convert any existing WAV files to MP3 format as well. The program supports different formats of MP3 (MPEG1 and MPEG2) and all bitrates (8 - 320 bps, constant and variable). It can automatically retrieve the album information for the CD tracks via FreeDB, rename the files based on the track titles and also add MP3 tags. MP3Producer also comes with feature that allows you to extract a segment from the CD an save it to a single file, rather than individual tracks. The program is easy to use, offers presets for quality settings and comes with a pleasant interface.

Zortam CD Ripper allows you to extract (rip) tracks from an AudioCD and convert them to MP3 or WAV format. The program can retrieve CD information and track names from the CDDB and will also try to find cover art and lyrics associated with the CD. The lyrics and cover art (if found) will be visible in Windows Media Player, iTunes, iPod and any other portable Mp3 Player that supports lyrics and cover arts via ID3v2 tags. Other features include support for unlimited sample rates, ID3 tagging and editing. Zortam CD Ripper uses LAME for MP3 encoding.

Topee CD Ripper is easy to use CD ripper, that can convert audio tracks from compact discs to MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG Vorbis. It comes with a built-in CD Player, CDDB support (disabled during evaluation) and ID3 support.

QuickRipper is a software to extract (rip) tracks from audio CDs and automatically convert them to MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA format. You can choose constant or variable bitrate settings up to 364 kbs, and automatically retrieve album and artist information via FreeDB, which is used to properly name and tag the extracted tracks. In addition, QuickRipper includes a feature that allows you to apply several effects to the extracted files, including Reverb, Flanger, Echo and others.

CoffeeCup MP3 Ripper & Burner is an easy-to-use software for ripping, converting or burning your favorite music files. It enables you to extract songs from your Audio CDs and save them to various formats, including MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, WAV, and VQF. The program can automatically retrieve artist and song information from the FreeDB database and create MP3 files with complete ID3 tags. In addition, you can also use CoffeeCup MP3 Ripper & Burner to burn CDs, create CD covers, copy CDs and convert between audio formats.

MakeCDROM allows you to create auto-starting CD publications with custom menus that can be used to launch files from the CD. It supports background images with clickable areas, an opening WAV sound and custom CD icon.

AudioVideoSoft RapidRip is an audio CD ripper with built-in format conversion to MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, MP2, VOX, ADPCM, u-LAW and others. It offers FreeDB/CDDB2 to retrieve the album titles from the internet, and can automatically name the files based on artist and album information.

ContextConvert Pro is a convenient tool to convert among nearly all conceivable multimedia formats (with integrated CD ripping). It integrates into the Windows Explorer right-click menu and allows you to immediately convert selected files to any other supported format. You can specify a default folder that will contain your converted files and customize various settings and properties that are available for complete output control (frequency, bitrate, AVI codecs, MPEG types WMV profile, image quality, color depth...). ContextConvert Pro also supports two-way conversions among Audio CD Tracks (CDA), MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV as well as video conversions between AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF. All popular image formats are supported as well.

Fast CD Ripper is a tool for converting your audio-CD collection to a variety of compressed audio formats (WMA 8, OGG and MP3) with ID3Tag v2 support as well as uncompressed audio like WAV and PCM. It offers fast direct conversion with jitter correction feature and CDDB support. The easy to use interface allows you to convert audio-CD to compressed audio format quickly by simply selecting the titles and output format.

eSan MP3 Builder is a simple CD ripper to extract tracks from an audio CD and automatically converts them to MP3 format. You can also convert WAV files from your local disk. Additional features include jitter correction and support for variable bit rate. No CDDB or FreeDB lookup provided.

Advanced Audio CD Ripper is a Audio CD grabber with unique "noise click remove" technology and multi drive support, that also allows you to set batch mode for more than one drive. It features SMART and FORCE error correction. The "Noise Click Remove" error correction feature allows you to suppresse the unpleasant clicking effect you sometimes get from extracted files. In addition, it includes FreeDB/CDDB support, LAME MP3 DLL interface and fast MP3 encoding speed. Supports MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis.

Audiolib CD Ripper can rip audio tracks from a CD to mp3, wave or ogg format without creating any temporary files. It supports CDDB lookup to retrieve artist and album information, as well as ID3 renaming of titles and creation of WinAmp playlists. Additional features include customizable bitrate settings and output naming schemes.

Easy CD Ripper is an all-in-one music tool that includes a CD ripper, a WAV to MP3 converter, a WAV to WMA converter, WAV to OGG converter, WAV to VQF converter, ID3 editor, and more. It supports saving audio CD tracks into WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF or WMA files. In addition, you can download and upload disc information from the CDDB online database. CD to MP3,WMA,VQF with high speed. CDs can be converted directly to VQF, without creating temporary WAV files, allowing for faster and more efficient conversion. 001 Easy CD Ripper supports SSE, 3DNOW, 3DNOW and MMX for speedup Additional features include ID3 tag reading and writing as well as "Sync Play" and compression.

Super CD Ripper is a CD ripper to extract audio tracks from CDs to your harddrive. The output can be converted to MP3, OGG or WMA. The interface is very simplistic and easy to use, however provides no further configurations or options, other than a simple extraction and conversion. No documentation provided.

Audio MP3 Maker extracts digital music from audio CD tracks and encodes them into MP3s, enabling you to make perfect copies of the original. This program reads digital audio data from a music CD directly, using a native audio CD-extracting approach. No additional driver is required for this program. Audio MP3 Maker supports full audio CD control functions, so it can act as an audio CD player. Other features include multiple-CD-ROM-driver support.

AltoMP3 Maker is a CD-ripper that also includes a MP3 to WAV decoder, a WAV to MP3 Encoder and a MP3 CD Player. The program can save CD tracks to MP3, WAV, OGG or VQF audio formats. It supports ID2/ID3 edit. Additional features include full CD audio playback control functions, and support for cdplayer.ini and freedb. The interface uses a skin and is customizable in several aspects.