They’re also helpful when the media player you use doesnt come with a built-in CD ripper.
Extreme Accuracy and Stability: Exact Audio Copy
Tests CD drive for accuracy and reliability.
Feature-rich in CD ripping options.
Website to download program is cluttered and confusing.
Enter email address to get song and album information.
EACExact Audio Copyis valued for its accuracy.
The free Windows program reads every CD sector at least two times to verify correct data copying.
Then it compares the copy to the original CD until at least eight of 16 tries produce identical results.
It also doesn’t pull the album metadata from the database until you tell it to do so.
Despite these shortcomings, free EAC is probably the best and most powerful ripping tool available.
Quick and Easy Ripping: FreeRIP Basic Edition
Automatically fills out track and album information.
Rips music to five audio formats.
Search feature doesn’t work.
Interface looks a bit dated.
FreeRIP has a well-designed (though slightly outdated) interface that’s intuitive to use.
The program also supportsCDDB query, which automatically fills in the information for your digital audio files.
it’s possible for you to use FreeRIP as an audio format converter and a tagger.
Looks up album information from two databases.
Default layout is too simplistic.
Lacks tutorials to show advanced features.
Foobar2000 is a free advanced audio player for Windows.
Although primarily a player, its audio component provides secure ripping of audio CDs.
Help files have great explanations of the interface.
Adjust sound sampling rates.
Interface lacks some features.
Software looks a bit dated.
The interface is user-friendly and includesID3 tagging, handles multiple CD/DVD drivers, and comes with audio playback controls.
FairStars CD Ripper also supports normalization when ripping.
