FreeRIP 3.07: compression without loss

The new version of popular ripper and converter has been released a few days ago.
FreeRip 3.07 is an easy to use program that can extract audio tracks from audio CD to files on your hard drive and convert existing audio files from one format to another.
However, not all audio formats are supported. FreeRip supports only the most popular WAV, MP3, OGG Vorbis and Flac audio formats. So you can save audio tracks as CD-quality WAV files or encode them to one of the supported audio formats. You are also able to create playlist of ripped tracks.
FreeRip lets you convert any WAV, MP3 and OGG audio file to WAV/MP3/ OGG/Flac formats and allows you to change their properties.
During ripping or converting it is possible to manually adjust track volume, or you can allow FreeRip do this work automatically using its volume control algorithm.
FreeRip supports Internet CD database freedb and can automatically search freedb database for your CD info. During the installation you can choose to install integrated browser music search bar that allows you to search the Internet for audio files.



The user interface of the program is multi language. FreeRip is translated into more than 25 languages, including English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Russian and many others.
The program is distributed in two versions, FreeRIP Basic which is totally free and commercial version called FreeRIP Pro which offers more options and features. FreeRIP Pro is able to ripping and convert files faster than free version. It also allows you to run multiple instances of FreeRIP at the same time.
The latest version of the program included integrated audio player and support for CUE sheets creation.
You can download the latest version of FreeRIP from this page.

See also: Easy CD-DA Extractor 11.1 - Universal Audio Ripper and Converter

Easy CD-DA Extractor 11.1 - Universal Audio Ripper and Converter

Easy CD-DA Extractor is very popular software that rip Audio CDs, edit metadata of audio files, converts audio files from one format to another, can write Audio CD, MP3 and WMA CD & DVD, and Data CD & DVD.
The program supports the absolute majority of music formats, including MP3, WMA (Windows Media Audio), MP4, M4A (iTunes, iPod), AAC, WAV, AIFF, Shorten, CUE and M3U.
Easy CD-DA Extractor has a well-designed interface that displays all of the main features and settings. Program consists of several tools: Audio CD Ripper, Audio File Format Converter, Audio CD Creator and MP3/WMA CD Creator. This tools are displayed in tabs of the main window.
Audio CD Ripper tool allows you to copy audio CDs to selected audio format. This tool can rip CDs with copy protections and bad condition CDs, gets disc information and metadata from Internet and much more.
Ripping CDs is very simple: Just insert a Audio CD disc and the Audio CD Ripper window displays info about the disc. Then select the output folder, the quality and format of output tracks and click the Rip button.



The “Audio File Format Converter” window allows you to converts audio files from one format to another. Here you can edit metadata of the existing audio files, select the one of the numerous output formats, make the settings for volume control and normalization of the audio.



Creating an Audio CD with Easy CD-DA Extractor is very easy. Just drag and drop the files into the window and select the recording speed. You can also write CD-text by enabling “Write CD-Text” option so that the CD-player can show the track titles.



The “MP3/WMA CD Creator” tool works the same way as the "Audio CD Creator". It lets you to burn MP3 CD/DVD, Data CD/DVD, and DVD Video.
Easy CD-DA Extractor is very good software that does its job very well and very fast.
You can download Easy CD-DA Extractor from this page.