CD Ripper Recommendations

i am an utter technology and music dork. can someone recommend a good software for ripping a CD to mp3, windows media, and real audio format? i would prefer freeware or shareware (meaning:cheap).



[Edited on Feb 26, 2004 by scottie]

As far as I know, only WMP rips to WMA, and only Real rips to RM. But why would you want either of those with their icky platform tie-ins?

CDex and Exact Audio Copy are free and highly recommended for MP3 encoding.

for another alternative, check out db poweramp. it's nifty!

-bobby

i'm going to say CDex over EAC, i've used CDex and it's just simply a joy to use comparitively to EAC... a lot of people have switched from EAC to CDex as well... but try both and see which one you like.

I rip all the time, what with hd space these days, its easier than having to go hunt down a cd I have no clue as to it's wherabouts

I use free rip, its shareware, you can find it if you search for it i'm sure, it's great.

db poweramp turn out to be just the trick! excellent, well thought out freewear for idiots, but it looks like it could be very utilitarian for some who has a brain.

thanks, bobby.

i'm ripping for posting on a web site that will be visited by business users that aren't likely to have updated players with mp3 codecs. but thank you for the suggestions--i ended up with db poweramp, though.

thanks for chiming in, em. i searched around last night and was blown away by how many freeware products there were. too many for a retard like me to sort through.

but my SG friends come through!

Anyone who can play Real or WMA will be able to play MP3, I'm quite certain.

tell me more. remember, i'm a music technology retard.

Music match jukebox is quite good

"CD Rider" is awesome if ya ask me....i think i got it from download.com, but im not sure.....search for it im sure you'll find it

I agree, music match is the only ripper I've been able to get to work on software loaded copy protected discs

I rip my shit with Nero. Nero is godlike.

audiograbber works pretty well for me

Free Rip encodes to mp3, ogg, and vqf. These are the only formats I've ever trusted to any of my music. Plus, Free Rip gets around nearly all copy protection ever (by nearly all I mean that I haven't found a CD that Free Rip hasn't been able to rip).

music match works well as does itunes