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A good ripper makes all the difference when transferring your CD tracks to MP3s. FreeRIP not only extracts and converts your audio tracks but also finds and downloads CD and track information and presents it in editable form right on the interface. It's easy to start right up with FreeRIP, but it includes a multi-language manual as well as tutorials and FAQs, if you should need them. FreeRIP supports the most common audio formats, not only MP3 but also FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, and WAV. It can also convert files between any two supported formats. Of course, FreeRIP can also play your files.
FreeRIP's nice-looking interface includes three tools: the Ripper, Converter, and Tagger. We loaded an audio CD in our burner's tray. FreeRIP scanned and displayed the contents, automatically retrieving the CD's meta tags and displaying them in the right-hand sidebar. The program's colorful toolbar accesses all necessary functions, including an Options Window, which is a compact pop-up for setting program preferences. FreeRIP offers many more data fields for both tracks and albums than most users will need, but those who do will appreciate not only the detailed tags but also how easy it is to enter and edit data. FreeRIP can rip your CD tracks and save them in the low-loss FLAC format, which preserves more of the original quality. You can play them on your PC in the high-quality format, and then convert them into MP3s for your portable player later on.
We pressed the Rip CD button when we were ready, and FreeRIP processed our CD quickly, ripping and converting the batch of tracks one by one, and tracking the progress of each in a pop-up. If you have lots of CDs to rip and little time to do it, there's a paid upgrade, FreeRIP Pro, optimized for multicore CPUs. It offers faster ripping and other options, such as prioritization. But we had no problem with waiting a little longer, and the quality is the same, so we were perfectly happy with the freeware version of FreeRIP and the files it creates.
FreeRip - Convert audio from CD to MP3 - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
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FreeRIP is an easy-to-use Windows application that can convert audio from CD to MP3, OGG, FLAC, WAV and WMA. It is also an MP3 converter, so it can convert MP3 to WAV, OGG to MP3, WMA to MP3, WAV to FLAC. FreeRIP also integrates an MP3 tag editor that can handle both ID3 v1 and v2 tags, supports CD-Text and online CD databases for automatic metadata downloading. FreeRIP can download track data from the famous freedb.org, but also offers its exclusive FreeRIP CD DB which is a user-maintained database that offers a number of additional fields like lyrics, band, lyricist, etc. FreeRIP also offers advanced features such as the ability to rip multiple CD tracks to a single MP3 file, and a search shortcut menu to help you find images, videos, information and lyrics.
Despite the huge number of functions it incorporates, FreeRIP has an intuitive user interface; a toolbar with big icons and a main window divided into two parts, the first of which lists the tracks and the second part gives specific information on each track. FreeRIP natively supports multiple languages such as English, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French.
What's new in this version: Version 3.66 is a bug-fixing release.
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"People need to read more before posting comments"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
It does the job, and it is not too bad an interface, tries to keep it simple and user friendly, but makes it that bit more convoluted for more advanced users, but hey it's free!
Cons
Yes it wants to install a toolbar - BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU CAN SAY 'NO'
Yes it is slow - BUY THE FULL VERSION IF YOU WANT SPEED!
Listen people, hard to believe, but companies don't write software for the happiness it brings, they want to sell it, and this App, does the "Buy the full version" nagging as nicely as you can hope for. It does not limit how much you convert, it just slows it a little. If speed is all important, then buy the full version, is that too much to ask? -
"Does exactly what I needed to do"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
Easy to use
Cons
Somewhat slow
Summary
Great product
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"best free software on for audio and video ripping"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
solves all audio video problems
Cons
none till i found in it
Summary
one of the best and workable free software for all audio video solutions.i have tried many others software regarding audio video this one is the best and free.
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"Crashed every time I tried to convert a WAV file."
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
Free,easy to download.
Cons
Didn't work at all.
Summary
If you want a free program that doesn't work, this is the one for you.
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"Good for me"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
Did exactly what I wanted , converting wma to mp3 . Easy enough to understand and very fast .
Cons
Nagging info about the pro version ; just click on past it .
Summary
Perfect for me , could not fault it .
Tried Koyote CD Ripper - what a mess now . Used it before and it was fine , what are they messing it up for ? Will never try Koyote again . -
"slow and inefficient"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
easy to use
Cons
very slow, inefficient
Summary
skip it
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"Tries to install Yahoo Search bar"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
I'm sure it works great just fine like everyone says but 2.5 immediate points off for attempting to load a bunch of junk into my browsers. The default case just lists a bunch of stuff to install including "toolbars" which I recognized as code for "Get ready to have Yahoo et all slammed at ya whether you like it or not! Have fun getting rid of it.
Cons
The default case just lists a bunch of stuff to install including "toolbars" which I recognized as code for "Get ready to have Yahoo et all slammed at ya whether you like it or not! Have fun getting rid of it.
Hate software that does this stuff - and they're pretty sneaky about it. -
"Exactly what I needed"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
And did exactly what I wanted
Cons
none at all
Summary
I needed to convert flac files to mp3 and never having heard of a flac file before this program had me doing this straight away and for free too. How brill is that. Thank you so much
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"Does the job"
Version: FreeRIP 3.66
Pros
stable and reasonable fast
Cons
poor user interface
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