Audiograbber — Rip Your CDs
There are a number of well-known programs for ripping music from your CD collection to your computer. Recently, I was asked to recommend a program that was easy to use for beginners, but that could work with a variety of MP3 encoders. This was hard as they ALL seem easy to me, but after looking around, Audiograbber seemed to fit the requested feature list.
Audiograbber is a well designed, simple program for ripping music from CDs. What put it over the top, however, was its help file which does a good job of explaining how to use the program’s features and settings and its web site which has active forums, faqs, links to encoders: everything someone new to ripping music from their CD collection for their mp3 player might need.
Audiograbber used to be shareware, but was made freeware several years ago. Here’s the basic description of the program from it’s web site:
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 freedb, an 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!
Audiograbber isn’t fancy, but it does the job well and has a lot of hand-holding options for those who need them.
Rating: 4.5
Operating System: Windows
License: Freeware
Price: Free
Version: 1.83 build 1
Web Site: http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
[tags]Windows, CD Ripping, Audiograbber, Music, Freeware[/tags]