Top 5 Free CD Rippers – Free Audio CD Extraction Software
Free Audio CD Extraction Software
Free Software For Ripping Your Audio CD Collection
Standalone CD rippers are useful to use when you’ve
got a large collection of CDs that you want to rip. They're also helpful
when the media player that you use doesn’t come with a built-in CD
ripper. Dedicated audio CD extraction programs also typically have more
features than the ones that are built into popular media players such as
Windows Media Player, Winamp,etc. Here are a list of free CD rippers
that have been chosen for their flexibility and ease-of-use.
1. FreeRIP 3 Basic Edition
FreeRIP
3 has a well designed interface that is intuitive to use. This free CD
ripper can extract the audio from your music CDs to MP3, WMA, WAV,
Vorbis, and FLAC formats. The program supports CDDB query which is used
to automatically fill-in the information for your digital audio files.
FreeRIP 3 can also be used as an audio format converter and a tagger.
When converting from one audio format to another, you can either add
files manually, or drag and drop them using your mouse. If you’re
looking for a free CD ripper, converter, and tagger, then FreeRIP is
recommended.
2. Kat CD Ripper
An
excellent free audio CD ripper for the Windows platform that has a good
feature-set. As well as being able to generate MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV,
FLAC, Monkey’s Audio, and a few others, Kat CD Ripper can also be used
to convert compressed audio to WAV or vice-versa. It has a built-in
media player and you can also record from analog sources such as a
microphone. Finally, Kat CD Ripper can use FreeDB and MusicBrainz
Internet music databases to automatically tag the created digital audio
files.
3. Koyotesoft Free CD Ripper
Koyotesoft’s
Free CD Ripper is Microsoft Windows compatible and supports the
creation of MP3, OGG, and FLAC digital audio files. It has a good
interface that is easy to get to grips with and also has a built-in CD
player; useful for previewing audio CDs before ripping them. What makes
this CD ripper so different from most other programs of this type
though, is its ability to create and burn Audio Bin/Cue images. This is a
useful feature if you need to work with audio CD images. Overall,
Koyotesoft Free CD Ripper is a good solid CD ripper that does a good
job.
4. Spesoft Free CD Ripper
Another
simple but effective CD ripper that can quickly extract audio CD tracks
to MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, and FLAC formats. The program is compatible with
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista and only needs a small amount of
hard drive space to install itself. After you have ripped a CD, it
queries FreeDB (Internet CD database) for tag information, and also
downloads album art and lyrics if available. This program is one of the
fastest rippers available and is a good tool if you have a large audio
CD collection that you want to rip.
5. Free CD to WAV MP3 WMA AMR AC3 AAC Ripper
This
freeware program for Windows is a bit of a mouthful, but is a solid CD
ripper that supports a good selection of audio formats. It can output
your CD tracks to MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC, AMR, and AC3. Most of the
audio formats have additional options that can be used to tweak the
encoding - useful for optimizing audio quality versus file size. If
you’ve got a cell phone that supports the AMR format then you may find
this utility particularly useful for transferring audio CDs to your
phone.
Free CD to WAV MP3 WMA AMR AC3 AAC
Ripper 3.6
100% Free - No Viruses, No Spyware & No malware!
Free CD to WAV MP3 WMA AMR AC3 AAC Ripper helps you convert digital-audio tracks directly from compact discs to
WAV/MP3/OGG/AMR/AC3/WMA/AAC files. It has an easy-to-use
design and high-speed ripping and conversion, and it supports the CDDB
as well as CD-ROM auto detection.
