Free CD to WAV MP3 WMA AMR AC3 AAC Ripper Editor's Review

Free CD to WAV MP3 WMA AMR AC3 AAC Ripper is an extremely well purpose oriented software. As shown in the title, the program allows you to accurately transfer your favorite CDs to other popular audio formats: WAV, MP3, WMA, AMR, OGG, AC3, AAC (MP4).

The program's intuitive and well designed interface allows you to quickly re-encode your favorite tracks into the desired target format. Before ripping, you can choose to load CD album information and read the track ISRC (International Standard Recording Code). Besides these, you can choose to grab also track options or connect to FreeDB in order to download extra track information.

Once the disk inserted into the drive, the program will auto-detect the tracks and it will display the artist, title, type, ISRC and duration. You can choose to rip all the tracks to a directory of your choice or you can select only a few tracks to be ripped. Depending on the target file format, you can set your favorite options: for example, in case you rip to MP3, you can choose the sample rate, channels, bitrate quality (up to 320 kbit), filtering, VBR (variable bitrate), CRC-Checksum, preset, etc. Format options are also available for WMA, OGG, AMR, an AAC output files.

Pluses: The ripping process is fast and it consumes few system resources. You can start the ripping process and not notice the fact that it's on. You computer's performance won't be affected.

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In conclusion: An excellent free CD ripping program.

version reviewed: 3.2