CD Ripping Tools

AudioGrabber is a complete solution to create perfect copies of CD audio on your hard drive and to rip CDs directly to MP3 format. It integrates with the Freedb online database to retrieve track information (artist, title etc.) for the songs on the CD, and can automatically name the saved files based on that information and add ID3 tags to MP3 and also WAV files. The program verifies that your copies are identical to the original, using a checksum comparison. Additional features include normalization, integrated player, support for external encoders and much more. AudioGrabber allows you to rip your CDs either to WAV file, or MP3 with or without intermediate WAV files, allowing you to keep a copy of the WAV in addition to the MP3 version. The program works very fast and reliable, and provides you with everything you need to transfer your CDs to your computer or portable device. (Used to be shareware)

FairStars CD Ripper enables you to rip music tracks from Audio CDs and save them to your computer in WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE or WAV format. The program supports online CD look-ups via freeDB to download track titles and artist information, as well as volume normalization, automatic ID3 tagging, file naming schemes and built-in audio playback.

Focus Free CD Ripper lets you extract audio tracks from your music CD and save them in WAV, MP3 or OGG format to your local disk. It offers CDDB support to retrieve album information and can automatically name the extracted files, based on the artist and song information and apply ID3 tags. The program also includes a player with 5 band equalizer and audio file browser. Easy to use with an attractive interface.

Exact Audio Copy is a CD audio grabber that supports SCSI as well as ATAPI CD-ROM drives. It features Jitter correction and 3 levels of extraction - Secure, Fast and Burst extraction methods. It uses the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression and offers additional support for the BladeEnc DLL. Additional features include Batch compression and decompression, detection of silence in pre-track gaps, filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini support as well as ID3 tagging. Exact Audio Copy also offers CD write support for some drives and can automatically detect drive features. The program comes with a setup wizard that asks you plain english questions, rather than technical details, so it is well suited, even for newbies. Certified Escient CDDB(TM) Compatible. A very nice and feature rich program! The author asks you to send him a postcard if you like and use the program (cardware).

CD Audio Information Downloader (CDAID) lets you obtain CD information (i.e. artist, song title, etc.) from freedb over the Internet. No more guessing what the title of song 4 is or trying to remember the name of the CD in your tray. As a special feature you can export your CD collection to a XML or text file.

CD-DA X-Tractor is a CD ripper that features intelligent jitter correction, internet CDDB support, on-the-fly MP3 encoding via BladeEnc or Lame_enc and more. CD-DA X-Tractor makes use of the AKRip CD-DA Audio Extraction Library. The program comes with an very easy to use interface and quiet a few advanced options tugged away in the configuration dialogs. Additional features include Bitrate settings, VBR quality, M3U playlist support and more.

Free CD to MP3 Converter is an easy to use CD ripper that allows you to extract audio files from a CD and convert them to MP3 format. It can automatically retrieve title information from the CDDB database, normalize the output files and supports additional LAME options. You can also use the software to record to MP3 with your microphone, or to convert WAV files to MP3 format.

CD DAE is a CD ripper with an option to verify extracted files. It supports freedb lookups and can name the extracted files based on the retrieved artist and title information. The files are extracted to WAV format. Easy to use.

WinRipper is a small tool that allows you to extract sound and music from CDs or local files. it was primarily designed to extract from games, but can be used for any file or CD. The extracted files can be automatically saved to a folder of your choice and you can apply several filters to limit the extraction and automatically convert some formats to WAV or MID. Formats supported are: WAV, VOC, AUD, AIFF, AU/SND, 8SVX, RMI, HMP, HMI, XMI, MUS, CMF, MOD, S3M, IT, XM, VQA, AVI, Shockwave, RIFF, IFF, BMP.

Cdrdao is a command line engine, that records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents (toc-file). It features full control over length and contents of pre-gaps (pause areas between tracks). Pre-gaps may be completely omitted, e.g. for dividing live recordings into tracks. Additional features include full control over control sub-channel data, accepts WAVE and raw audio files, CD-TEXT reading and writing with drives that support it, as well as CDDB access to automatically create CD-TEXT data. This program is command line based, it does have a user interface.