CD RIPPERS

Audiograbber - Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from CDDB, the Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!

CD Copy - CD Copy enables you to copy audio tracks from your CD player onto your hard disk using an ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) or a Win32 interface. Files can be saved in the WAV, AU, RAW, Yamaha VQF, RealAudio, and MPEG (Layers 1 and 2) formats. Files can also be saved in the MP3 format using L3Enc, XingMPEG Encoder, or similar software. Other features include batch file generation, CDDB support, and the ability to combine several tracks into one file. This version features RA-G2 decompression and CDR writing, RA-Surestream format, automatic playlist generation, MPMan and MPlayer3 support, and a few bug fixes. Unregistered versions of the program offer full functionality. The registration fee is $20

CuteRip - is an extremely easy to use but powerful audio CD ripping and MP3 encoding tool running in Windows 9X/NT/2000. If you want to make your own MP3 from audio CD, this is exactly what you are looking for.With full CD audio playback control function, CuteRip can also work as a CDDB2-Enabled(TM) CD player. This is a full function version but you can only rip and encode the first 8 CD tracks before registration

Digital Audio Copy - This product is the solution for all Microsoft Windows 32 Bit operating systems like Win95, Win98, WinNT and Windows 2000. It is designed to copy Audio Tracks from Audio CD's digitally to your hard disk with the help of the installed CDROM drives. It doesn't make use of a soundcard or any other sound hardware. You need only a CDROM drive which is capable of Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) and which is connected to your SCSI or IDE controller (other controller types are not working with this windows version of the program).

Easy CD-DA Extractor - Powerful and Easy digital audio extraction utility that makes digital copies from audio CDs and saves as audio files such as MP3, Windows Media Audio and Windows Wave. You may use built-in encoders, get plug-ins for other free encoders, or use any Windows audio compression codec. Features include: CDDB, ID3 and WMA tags, file converter with batch support, tons of files can be converted to a different format simultaneously, serves also as a MP3 and WAV decoder and sound normalizer

FireBurner -FireBurner is CD recording software that features a fully functioning track ripper, DAO burning on Yamaha CD-Rs (except those that support Send Cue Sheet burning), TAO burning on most drives, and BIN/CUE burning. FireBurner allows you to rip several or all tracks at once, into ISO, CDA/WAV, or RAW format. Version 1.06 features the ability to create audio tracks from your MP3s at the highest recording speeds. This is a 15-day trial; the registered version costs $29.95.

Lava Burn-Lava Burn allows you to write your own audio CDs with WAV files, MP3 files, or audio CD tracks via drag-and-drop. It also supports CD audio extraction to WAV format, WAV-to-MP3 encoding, and MP3-to-WAV conversion. In this trial version, song length is limited to two minutes. The registered version is $24.95.

MP3 CD Maker - MP3 CD Maker is a very cool tool that can help you to make normal audio CDs from MP3 files. With MP3 CD Maker, you can choose 74 minutes of your favorite MP3 songs, and burn them in to a 74-minute audio CD. There is also the 80 minute of your favorite MP3 songs, you can burn them into the 80-minute audio CD. So that you can listen to them in your ordinary CD players, even in your cars. (To record 80-minute audio CD, a 80-minute CDR/RW disc is needed)

Nero Demo - Nero is a flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to write both data and CD audio to CD-R and CD-RW discs. It supports ISO 9660 images as well as ISO mode 1 and XA mode 2, and allows for on-the-fly disc recording in addition to overburning (if supported by hardware). Nero also supports multisession and mixed-mode recording, HFS, ISO/HFS hybrid, UDF, PSX, OFAS (optimal file access speed), track-at-once (TAO) and disc-at-once (DAO) writing, digital audio extraction, and more. In addition, Nero can dynamically disable automatic-insert notification, offers support for multiple languages, and works with all major models of CD-R and CD-RW drives. This download also contains Nero's standalone Cover Editor for designing and printing CD covers. Version 5.0.1.3 now has the capability to burn multiple CDs, Super Video CD, improved audio filters, and much more. The registered version costs $69.