Free CD Ripper 3.0

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.0 stars (out of 140 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  867,408

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/2000/XP

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  March 21, 2005

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Free CD Ripper 3.1 Free CD Ripper 2.0 Free CD Ripper 3.1 Free CD Ripper 3.0 Free CD Ripper 3.1 Free CD Ripper 3.0 Free CD Ripper 2.0

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Publisher's description of Free CD Ripper 3.0

Free CD Ripper 3.0 is a freeware program and easy to use. Free CD Ripper 3.0 is a powerful, professional software which can extract Digital Audio tracks from an Audio CD into sound files on your hard disk. You can save CD audio tracks to CD-quality WAV files or encode them to OGG Vorbis or MP3 compressed audio format. Moreover it can encode existing WAV files to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format, and window media audio file('wma' format). With its powerful sound engine, Free CD Ripper 3.0 extracts with high speed and quality. Free CD Ripper 3.0 supports Freedb and ID3 tagging so you can automatically download CD track information and it them in the encoded file. Play back all the sound you extracted in the player with many music function. Free CD Ripper 3.0 can convert to four formats of audio files. It supports wav, mp3, wma, ogg - these four kinds of popular audio frequency formats, and it would not produce new medium files.

Editor's review of Free CD Ripper 3.0

• 4.0 stars

• "Rip for free"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: Free CD Ripper 3.0

This program proves you can still get a decent CD-ripping application without spending any money. The program's stylish main window is not only attractive, but also very functional, with large, clearly labeled icons for all actions.

The program lets you extract files into most popular formats including MP3 and OGG formats, as well as WMA and WAV. Further you can convert the files between these formats. Still, we were glad to find the utility can rip files using the space-efficient VBR compression scheme. This program comes complete with powerful feature-rich recorder included in the package. The output format for the recorder can be pre-set. The user has to select WAV, WMA, MP3, or OGG file as the output and set the quality as desired. However, since you have to keep pressing play every time you want to hear a new track, we don't recommend using it as a dedicated jukebox app.

In our tests, the program performed all the functions flawlessly when run under Windows 2000. As soon as we tried to test it under Windows XP, the application crashed and sometimes it crashed the OS too. Under Windows 2000 the app demonstrated good speed, making it easy for us to recommend this app for Windows 2000 users only who are on the hunt for a quality, cost-free CD-extraction solution. If you are Windows XP users, keep away from this program.

User reviews of Free CD Ripper 3.0

• Average user rating: 3.3 stars out of 140 votes
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• 1 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Free CD Ripper 3.0

  "Don't Download it's not free"

  by devilman13 on March 23, 2005

  Pros: ...Nothing

  Cons: It's said it was FREE and it's not. It will rip about 60 sec off the First song and ask you to buy it for 24.95 It's a cheap wast of time and download.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Free CD Ripper 3.0

  "Not working"

  by snorkymn on May 18, 2005

  Pros: None, the player doesn't work on my computer

  Cons: I am trying to use this on a Windows 2000 machine, and when I go to extract to MP3, the Extracting window comes up, then the program just seems to sit and not do anything.

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• 4 stars

  Version: Free CD Ripper 3.0

  "Perfect for creating MP3's from WAV."

  by non-geek on April 17, 2005

  Pros: I was looking for something to create MP3s my CD's and onto my hard drive. The rips are quick and easy. I'm not sure why one reviewer says it doesn't do whole songs, because I've done thousands without any ads prompting me to buy.

  Cons: Because I do oldies, some cd's are not recognized, and I have to manually title the songs. That process is not as smooth as I would like.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Free CD Ripper 3.0

  "THIS IS CRAP"

  by seoras on April 14, 2005

  Pros: NONE

  Cons: TOTAL CON. DO NOT USE IT. SETTINGS HAVE TO BE RESET ON EVERY USE. AFTER FIRST USE IT FAILS CONTINUALLY.

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• 4 stars

  Version: Free CD Ripper 3.0

  "Off to a slow start, with no directions, but after I figured it out (15 min) OK!"

  by tamjlut on April 8, 2005

  Pros: Free, of course

  Adding titles and artists

  Cons: If you don't change the Output format to MP3 it will default to WAV. then if you try to use the software to convert a wav to MP3 you are asked to buy software.

  Once I choose MP3 and tried it again, no problems and all free!

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