In the age of online music store , one may ask what is the use of these rippers ?. The reason behind that is many audio cd which i bought long time back were getting scratched beyond repair and i had to save the content . My search ended with CDex. CDex as its name suggests , is a CD-Extrator .This is a open source software that allow you to extract audio content from a CD.After Extraction the audio can be saved in plain .wav format or can be compressed to other popular formats
- Lame MP3 encoder
- Internal MP2 encoder
- APE lossles audio format
- Ogg Vorbis encoder
- The Windows MP3 encoder (Fraunhofer MP3 encoder)
- NTT VQF encoder
- FAAC encoder
- Windows WMA8 encoder
The features list CDex boasts are
- Direct recording of multiple tracks
- Read / store album information from/to the cdplayer.ini file
- Read / store album information from/to a local and/or remote CD Database (CDDB)
- Support CD-Text (if your CD-drive supports it)
- Advanced jitter correction (based on the cd-paranoia ripping library)
- Indicates track progress and jitter control
- Normalization of audio signal
- Supports many CD-Drive from many manufacters
- Conversion of external WAV files
- Support for M3U and PLS play list files
- Best of all, it’s free (GPL license, source code available)
- Serveral languages are supported
The project is kept alive for a long time , this is evident from the number of releases and language packs available .
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I don’t know what you guys use to rip music from CDs but I recently came across a great software. It’s definitely the easiest to use, and the music is excellent quality. http://www.smartcdripper.com