Indispensable ripping software (Audiograbber)

Name: GroundZero

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Product:	Audiograbber
Date:	04/10/00 (478 review reads)
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Advantages: Free version, extremely easy to use

Disadvantages: Only copies half the tracks at a time, you have to find the BladeEnc MP3 DLL encoder, some memory leaks

Audiograbber is an essential piece of software if you want to copy your CD collection into MP3 format (legally of course!). There is a free version which will copy a randomly selected half of the tracks on the album each time. Its a simple case of restarting Audiograbber if you want to grab the other tracks, although this can be a bit hit and miss.

The program is highly customisable, you can set the amount of silence at the beginning and end of a track to discard, in order to save on file size. It has a CDDB enabled interface, so you can download track listings for your CDs from the web. It also has a very useful normalisation setting, which allows you to record MP3s at a set volume, which is useful when different CDs have been recorded at different volumes.

The software is extremely easy to use, and performs well. A couple of minor problems though - you will find that if you are constantly starting and exiting Audiograbber, it will chew up all the memory on your computer (memory leak), the only way to cure this is to restart your computer. This is only a problem if you do this a large number of times, e.g. if you are copying a number of CDs successively.
The other problem is that you will need to find a copy of the BladeEnc MP3 DLL encoder, a small bit of software that allows you to perform the conversion to MP3. Without this, you can only rip the CD tracks to WAV files, which take up vastly more space on your hard drive than MP3s.

Despite these minor irritations, for free this is an extremely capable piece of software. This comes highly recommended.

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