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CD ripper

CD Ripper A CD ripper ( CD grabber or CD extractor ) is a piece of software designed to extract or "rip" raw digital audio from a compact disc to a file or other output.

Following are recommended CD ripper software for Windows, Mac and Linux.

CD Ripper for Windows CD Ripper for Mac
  • Max for MAC
    Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files. Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, FLAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.

  • iTunes
CD Ripper for Linux
  • Asunder - a GTK-based CD-ripping program that works on Linux. It can save audio tracks as WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and WavPack audio files
  • Brasero - a free disc-burning program for Unix-like systems. It can use all audio files handled by GStreamer local installation (Ogg, FLAC, MP3, etc).
  • Sound Juicer - It can rip to any audio codec supported by a GStreamer plugin, such as mp3 (via LAME), Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and uncompressed PCM formats.

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