MP3 ripping software

Post by **4days** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:26 am

always use cdex myself - but someone's just asked me to recommend a freeware mp-ripping app for windows and the cdex project looks a bit up in the air.

bearing in mind that this is for someone who's not too hot on computers, anyone suggest a good, easy to use freeware mp3-ripper?

they're heterosexual and use a regular mp3 player, so no itunes or wacky format bollocks pls.

Post by **mrd** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:27 am

I think AltoMP3 player is free and rips mp3s. You CAN buy it... but I'm about 90% sure it allows you to either rip a whole CD, or something stupid like 3 songs per iteration of the program.. so just close it and open it again for the next 3.

Post by **brisk** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:42 am

EAC. Since the inclusion of a setup wizard, anyone should be able to use it now. And it is of course still the best ripping program out there.

Post by **Denz** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:27 pm

Windows Media Player 10 will rip MP3's and it will do it at 320kbps.

I prefer 192 myself.

Of course it's so easy all you do is insert your CD, it rips it automatically then when it's done it ejects the CD.

Post by **Kalia** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:28 pm

Itunes rips to m4a (I believe, acc encorder) but you can change that to an mp3 encoder.. lol, just go to perferences, advance import and change import using and it'll rip to mp3 format

Post by **SplishSplash** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:59 pm

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:03 pm

brisk wrote:EAC. Since the inclusion of a setup wizard, anyone should be able to use it now. And it is of course still the best ripping program out there.

:icon14:

Post by **zewulf** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:34 pm

Setting up EAC correctly for your optical drive can be a bit tricky, but if you care about quality, EAC + LAME is the only way to go (and it's free)

Use EAC to extract the tracks into WAVs and then encode them with lame -V 0 --vbr-new :icon30:

Post by **DRuM** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:57 pm

How about audiograbber

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Post by **menkent** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:03 pm

eac + lame == ownz.

Post by **Canis** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:37 pm

There is a LAME encoder plugin for itunes out there somewhere.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:29 pm

Canis wrote:There is a LAME encoder plugin for itunes out there somewhere.

indeed
i think its mac only though

Post by **4days** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:08 am

DRuM wrote:How about audiograbber

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

that looks like the right sort of thing :icon14:

Post by **Sanction** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:08 am

dbPowerAmp

Post by **raw** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:11 am

Exact Audio Copy with Lame. :icon14:

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de
http://www.mp3dev.org

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:13 am

Sanction wrote:dbPowerAmp

is great, but was better when it was free. you can still get older versions at oldversion.com

Post by **Sanction** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:17 am

Still using release 10 :icon14: