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Introduction

There are lots of rippers available. All media players including Windows Media Player can rip. There are also some great freebies plus a host of commercial rippers. Most will rip to WAV, MP3 and usually several other formats.

If your CDs are like mine then some are scratched or have lots of finger-marks. These can cause pops and crackles in the ripped file. Rippers vary greatly in their ability to handle these problems. Some will simply get stuck while others will skip forward over the problem or even create a silent gap. The best programs will try repeatedly to fix the problem with no audible effects.

After a lot of experimentation, I ended up with a few free CD rippers that were impressive with their features.

Rated Products

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FairStars CD Ripper [5] [6]

An excellent utility to rip audio from a music CD in a variety of formats

Our Rating:
5
License: Free
Lightweight; friendly interface; ID3 tags in options; query for info; good extracted music quality; auto-rename files; no crashes or freezes.
No auto-run option; doesn't allow to tweak settings for an output format.
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Exact Audio Copy [10] [11]

It is outstanding in handling CD imperfections

Our Rating:
4.5
License: Free (Private/Educational use)
Handles CD imperfections and scratches with ease.
Requieres LAME Encoder to encode MP3's.
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fre:ac [13] [14]

Allows a lot of tweaking for each encoder

Our Rating:
4.5
License: Free (Open source)
Support for nearly 38 languages; advanced jitter correction; files searchable by patterns.
User interface is a but too plain; no wizard mode.
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FreeRIP MP3 Converter Basic [16] [17]

A really cool CD ripper, plus a converter and a tagger

Our Rating:
4
License: Free (Limited features)
A ripper plus a converter and a tagger; vocals sound natural.
A bit difficult to locate encoding options.
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CDex [20] [21]

An outstanding product works with most CD hardware

Our Rating:
4
License: Free (Open source)
Capable of transcoding one file format to another.
Requires LAME Encoder to encode MP3's.
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Audiograbber [23] [24]

A nifty good CD ripper with line-in sampling

Our Rating:
3.5
License: Free
Clean interface; easy to use and portable; feature rich; line-in sampling.
Installs a third party search tool and alters browser settings.
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