- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
- Date added: December 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 5,799,343
- Downloads last week: 40,810
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 344 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Like a finely tuned laser, FreeRip 3 does one task: extract songs from your CDs. Fortunately, the app accomplishes its goals accurately, if not with flair, and makes for an easy-to-use audio-track ripper.
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. In the end, FreeRip doesn't do anything its competitors don't, but it functions well, is uncomplicated and quick, and has no price tag.
Publisher's description
From MGShareware :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 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, or lyricist. 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, and users have the choice of two versions. The free version is FreeRIP Basic, and FreeRIP Pro is for paying users and offers advanced features such as multi-core optimization and the ability to run it at a higher priority, allowing the maximum speed possible.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.3 is a maintenance release.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 344 votes
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Version: FreeRip MP3 3.3
Pros: easy to use
Cons: enormous amount of VIRUSES of many kinds
Summary: DON'T even think about it
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Version: FreeRip MP3 3.3
Pros: Intuitive and easy to use with a minimum of practice.
Cons: Haven't used it enough yet to have any bad experiences.
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Version: FreeRip MP3 3.3
"doesn't convert protected WMA"
Pros: I only wanted to do one thing and it didn't do it
Cons: it doesn't convert protected .WMA files
Summary: usless for me
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Version: FreeRip MP3 3.3
"Great experiance. Easy to use. Great Output."
Pros: Easy to use
Cons: Easy to use, Quality output.
Summary: Easy to use, Fine quality output. Just Great...
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Version: FreeRip MP3 3.3
Pros: Better than Windows Media Player. Larger choice of bit rates. Rip in either CBR or VBR. Free is good.....very good.....as a matter of fact, excellent.
Cons: Does not write ID tags correctly. If you submit tag info to their database and discover you made a mistake later, you cannot correct the mistake. Their only contact address is their sales dept. They do NOT respond to bug reports, questions, etc.
Summary: FREE! Better than average ripper. As is typical of most rippers, their program is not friendly to ripping audio books.
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