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Title: Best Free CD Ripper?
Post by: aknimitz on February 16, 2005, 10:57:56 AM

Hiyas Everyone - Quick Question:

What software [free] do you all use to rip CDs to MP3s?

Thanks for any help!

Nim

Title: Best Free CD Ripper?
Post by: JB73 on February 16, 2005, 11:21:41 AM

i use creative's software that came with my mp3 player... though i think you can DL jukebox or whatever it is called from creative

windows media player rip's CD (into window's media audio files that most players read anyway)

Title: Best Free CD Ripper?
Post by: Furious on February 16, 2005, 11:35:20 AM

Audiograbber (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/)

Title: Best Free CD Ripper?
Post by: TheDudeDVant on February 16, 2005, 12:30:17 PM

db power amp  8)

Title: Best Free CD Ripper?
Post by: Terror on February 16, 2005, 02:10:35 PM

I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) in secure mode for all my CD Ripping.  I then use LAME to do all the encoding.  Use these instructions (http://www.chrismyden.com/nuke/modules.php?op=modload&name=Elite_DAE&file=painless)  or mirror (http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/mydeneaclame.cfm) for near-CD quality MP3s.  (Chris Myden's site seems to be having problems at the moment.) I can't tell the difference between the MP3's created this way and the original CDs.  The key is the "secure mode" in EAC.  It's slower, but you do not get any pops/hisses/noise in the final product.

Link to EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/)

Link to LAME (http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html)

Terror