FreeRip - free CD ripper
FreeRIP is a Windows software that lets you extract audio CD tracks and save them to WMA, MP3, Ogg, Wav, or FLAC audio files. Like a finely tuned laser, FreeRip 3 does one task: extracts songs from your CDs.
Once you have your digital audio tracks in your preferred format, just move them onto an audio player (e.g. a portable MP3 player such as an Apple iPod? Creative Zen Player? or Sony Walkman?), an advanced mobile phone, or burn them to a MP3 CD to listen in your MP3 car stereo and home stereo.
Features of FreeRip
- Extracts audio tracks from CDs to WAV, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis and MP3s
- Extract more than one track into a single audio file
- Extract specific frames from audio CDs
- Converts existing audio files and lets you change their properties
- Adjust audio track volume
- Get CD-Text metadata from audio CDs to use as file tags
- Integrated support for online CD databases including the exclusive FreeRIP CD DB
- Support ID3 v1 and v2 MP3 tagging
- Support Wav, WMA, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC tagging
- Integrated playlist generator (M3U, PLS, B4S, HTML, CSV)
- Integrated search button for finding images, videos and lyrics for your music
- Support for many languages including Spanish, Portugese, German, Italian
The latest version of the program features some long overdue enhancements. Chief among them is the inclusion of the WMA format, and it’s hard to believe it wasn’t included before. FreeRip also supports WAV, MP3, Vorbis, and FLAC. Other features include multitrack ripping and an option to use the program as an audio-file converter. The options menu is extensive and will appeal to any advanced user, since it makes most manners of customization a cinch.
The interface is well done, with big icons and a friendly main window split into two sections. The left pane lists the tracks, and the right gives you specific info on each song and has a tab to switch to CD-wide info. The toolbar has icons for all the major functions of the app as well as links to the publisher’s community pages.