The latest version now is FreeRIP3.What is to RIP / Ripping?
Wikipedia describes it, Ripping (also referred to as digital audio extraction) is the process of copying the audio or video data from one media form, such as DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray or CD, to a hard disk. While the original media is typically digital, the extraction of analog media such as VHS video or vinyl records to a digital format can also be referred to as "ripping". To conserve storage space, the copied data is usually encoded in a compressed format such as MP3, WMA, FLAC or Ogg Vorbis for audio, or MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD or Ogg Theora for video. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping)
And, What is FreeRIP?
This is one of the best freewares by mgshareware. This freeware windows application will let us to save audio CD tracks to WAV, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC audio files. FreeRIP also is an audio file converter and it can convert audio files from one of the named formats to another.
FreeRIP supports extended tagging and ID3 v2 standard, so that you can add information to audio tracks like artist name, song title, lyrics and so on, and FreeRIP will store them in the audio file itself.
FreeRIP also lets us convert audio files from a format to another: its integrated audio converter helps you to convert as many files you want between the most famous audio formats.
Here is the FreeRIP main features list:
* Extracts audio tracks from audio Compact Discs to WAV, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis and MP3 files.
* Multi track extractor: can extract more tracks to a single audio file.
* Raw track extractor: can extract specific frames from audio CDs.
* Converts existing audio files from WAV, WMA, FLAC, MP3, OGG Vorbis to MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, and OGG Vorbis formats, and let you change their properties (stereo<->mono, bitrate,...).
* Adjusts audio tracks volume
* Reads CD-Text metadata from Audio CDs when available
* Includes integrated support for CD Database query (both FreeRIP CD DB and freedb.org): FreeRIP automatically detects CDs and retrieves tracks info.
* Local CD database to speedup CD data retrieval.
* FreeRIP CD DB submissions: you can contribute to FreeRIP CD Database project.
* Includes integrated support for ID3 v1 and v2 MP3 tagging. Supports Wav, Wma, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC tagging read and write.
* Integrated support to create playlist (M3U/PLS/B4S/HTML/CSV) of ripped/converted tracks.
* Integrated search button: speeds up search for track information, images, videos and lyrics.
* Multi language interface, supported languages are English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and many others.
* Very easy to use.
* Totally compatible with Windows9x/ME and NT/2000/XP.
If you are interested in this free ripping freeware you can download the software at this official download page :
