CD Ripper 0.7 Beta 3

4.5 out of 5 stars

BETA (June 10, 2002)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Shareware / 1,181 downloads

CD Ripper extracts tracks from Audio-CD's into Wav or MP3 files to your hard drive with the option to Normalize tracks, automatic CDDB lockup for CD Tracks, conversion between Wav<->MP3 formats, plus much more. The ripping is very fast, about 20sec. to rip a 4.40min CD Track. It extracts the audio digitaly so there are no interferance from your sound card or other devices.

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    busta

    Reviewing 0.7 Beta 3 (Jun 11, 2002)

    It has a pleasant and clean GUI (Reminds me of MS Outlook, I like it). It's logical and easy to use.

    "The ripping is very fast, about 20sec. to rip a 4.40min CD Track."

    This really doesn't sound like an advantage. If it's ripping that fast you can be assured there are going to regularly be read errors which will end up as glitches/squeels/skips. Burst mode sucks. Instead a secure ripping (error detection/correction) method should be implemented which would no doubt be slower, but should give better results without annoying squeels and whatnot. Free "rippers" like CDex and Exact Audio Copy have such modes and I would never go back to basic, albeit fast burst mode extraction.

    Apparently FhG Fastenc is used as the MP3 encoder which is far better than Blade, but LAME is a better choice. Compiled LAME DLLs are available as well as the source code. Take a look at CDex, exceed CDex's features and I'd certainly buy it. $10 definitely isn't unreasonable.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    ditoa

    Reviewing 0.7 Beta 3 (Jun 10, 2002)

    nice program, does what it says. the time statement is a kind of a lie as it is totally system dependant how quick it encodes and to which quality etc. If you want a freeware program try CDex (http://cdex.n3.net) it is very good

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