Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Software: Audio Converters / CD Rippers


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Name: Advanced MP3 Converter
Version: 8.1.1 (Free) / 1.1 (Pro)
License: Shareware (w/ free version)
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.mp3do.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download [free ver.] (11.6MB)
                  Official HTTP Download [pro ver.] (11.6MB) | Buy Pro version
Updated: 2012/09/19 by Demi
Description: Advanced MP3 Converter is real powerful mp3 converter software,supports protected or unprotected lossless music converter,can batch convert MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE, MPC, CUE, AAC, MP4, M4A, TTA, AC3, FLAC, OptimFROG, Speex, WavPack, ALAC etc from one format to another. can cut ,split, edit audio at the same time ,play on your any mp3 player.
List of features: here.

Name: Advanced WMA Workshop 
Version: 2.7.4
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.litexmedia.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (7.14MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Powerful audio converter with easy-to-use interface and lots of useful features. With this software you can convert WMA to MP3, WMA to OGG, FLAC to MP3, APE to MP3, AAC(M4A) to MP3 and other mutual conversions between supported formats.

Main features of Advanced WMA Workshop:
  • Handy User's Interface
  • Batch Conversion Support
  • Fast Conversion Speed
  • Best Audio Codecs Support
  • ID3 Tag v2 Support
  • High Quality CD-Ripping
  • CDDB Support
  • Winamp playlists support
Learn more about the features - here.

Name: AltoMP3 Gold
Version: 5.12
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.yuansoft.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (1.55MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: AltoMP3 Gold is an excellent CD ripper for Windows which allows you to convert Audio CD and various media formats to MP3 easily.
If you want to make your own MP3 from audio CD, this is exactly what you are looking for. Only with a few mouse clicks, AltoMP3 Gold can convert your audio CD collections to smaller size MP3 files so that you can enjoy your music with your MP3 player, mobile phone, iPod and other devices.


With AltoMP3 Gold, you can convert various audio and video media files such as:
*.wma,*.w4a, m4a, *.mp2,*.mp4, *.asf audio files, *.avi, *.asf, *.m4p, *.wmv, *.mov video files and divx, XviD movies, etc.
For more, click here.

Name: dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) 
Version: 14.2
License: Shareware (last free version is v10)
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Official HTTP Download (6.6MB) - Trial
                  A+ Freeware link to download free version (1.35MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Audio conversion perfected, effortlessly convert between formats. dBpoweramp Music Converter has become 'the standard' tool for audio conversions, over 30 million users worldwide rely on dBpoweramp.

There are two versions of dBpoweramp 
  • Free: a functional Ripper and Converter, mp3 encoding missing. [up to v.10]
  • Reference: Aimed at the audio professional & enthusiast, offering technically advanced features.
Main features list:
  • Convert audio files with elegant simplicity. mp3, mp4, m4a (iTunes / iPod), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC) 
  • Multi CPU Encoding Support,
  • Rip digitally record audio CDs (with CD Ripper),
  • Batch Convert large numbers of files with 1 click
  • Windows Integration popup info tips, audio properties, columns, edit ID-Tags,
  • DSP Effects such as Volume Normalize, or Graphic EQ 
The complete list of features and comparison of the two versions: here

Name: Easy CD-DA Extractor
Version: 16.0.8.1
License: Shareware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.poikosoft.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (10.3MB)
Updated: 2012/09/07 by Nia
Description: Easy CD-DA Extractor is a complete audio suite that features CD ripping, audio converting, and CD/DVD burning. The software has four main functionality:

Audio CD Ripper - accurately rips Audio CDs with error detection and two-pass verification using its AccurateCDDA CD-ripping engine. 
Audio Converter - converts audio files from one audio format to another with best audio quality. Boosts the performance with multi-core processors by allowing 8 parallel conversions. Supports metadata-editing and includes ReplayGain loudness calculation. Includes DSPs that allows to normalize audio, to add fade in/out, and to delete leading/trailing silence.
Metadata Editor - allows editing the metadata of existing audio files. Can be used to rename the files based on metadata.
CD/DVD Burner - burns audio CDs, MP3 CDs & DVDs, and Data CDs & DVDs. Can be used to make 1:1 copies of CDs and DVDs (including DVD Video) via its Make/Burn Disc Image feature.
To learn more about the features - here.

Name: Exact Audio Copy 
Version: 1.0 beta 3
License: Freeware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Download: Official Program Page | Pcwelt HTTP Download (1.25MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :
  • It is free (for non-commercial purposes)
  • It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can't be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player
With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.
This page presents the features of EAC.

Name: fre:ac
Version: 1.0.20a
License: Freeware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.freac.org/
Download: Official Program Page | SourceForge HTTP Download (7.09MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.
Key features list:
  • Converter for MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
  • Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support
  • Portable application, install on a USB stick and take it with you
  • Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs
  • Full Unicode support for tags and file names
  • Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them

Name: Freemake Audio Converter
Version: 1.1.0
License: Freeware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.freemake.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Official HTTP Download (1.4MB) [Online installation]
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Freemake Audio Converter is a free, extremely powerful tool for converting audio files. It is able to convert audio free to MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, convert audio to MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, extract audio from video, join audio files.
Some of the special features of Freemake Audio Converter include:
  • MP3 to iTunes: Send MP3 and AAC files directly to iTunes from our audio converter
  • Join audio files: Merge multiple audio files into one
  • Export audio from video including DVD, H.264, AVI etc. (List of supported formats)

Name: Free MP3 WMA Converter 
Version: 2.1
License: Freeware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.koyotesoft.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (455KB) [Online installation]
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Free MP3 WMA Converter is a fast music and audio files converter to and from MP3, WMA, WAV and more! 

Why Use Free MP3 WMA Converter?
  • Convert audio files to/from many formats
  • Save hard disk space by converting WAV files to MP3
  • Rip audio CDs into MP3 or OGG files with the built-in ripper
Great Features:
  • User friendly interface
  • High speed conversion
  • Supports all popular formats
  • Easy installation
  • 100% FREE and safe to use
  • Supports: MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, FLAC and WAV
  • Windows compatible

Name: FreeRIP (Basic/Pro)
Version: 3.91
License: Freeware (Pro version is commercial)
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.freerip.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download [Basic] (2.5MB) | Buy Pro version
Updated: 2012/10/02 by Kenny
Description: FreeRIP is an advanced CD to MP3 Converter that comes packed with features. At its core, FreeRIP reads audio from your CDs and allows you to save them to your computer in a variety of digital formats including WMA, MP3, Ogg, Wav, or FLAC audio files (this process is known as CD ripping or CD to MP3 conversion). FreeRIP supports the high quality, lossless compression named FLAC, which is widely used and supported by audiophiles. If you want to be sure to save all the richest details in your audio tracks, save them in the FLAC format.

FreeRIP is also an advanced MP3 tag editor (supporting ID3 v1 and v2) and includes shortcuts to find track info. This makes cataloging your entire collection simple and easy.
FreeRIP comes in two versions, FreeRIP Basic which is totally free, and FreeRIP Pro which offers more features and options.
A complete list of features and comparison of Basic and Pro versions - here
Name: River Past Audio Converter / Pro
Version: 7.8
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.riverpast.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download [Basic] (4.03MB)
                 Official HTTP Download [Pro] (4.04MB) | Buy River Past Audio Converter
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: River Past Audio Converter is River Past's award winning audio converter and extractor.
  • It can convert from almost any audio format to WAV, MP3, WMA, or audio-only AVI. 
  • It  supports a variety of input formats, including the standard WAV, MP3, WMA, AIFF, RealAudio, and the not-so-standard OGG, AIFF, and Unix Audio.
  • It can also extract audio from the standard AVI, ASF, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, RealMedia, and the not-so-standard QuickTime MOV and MPEG-4.
A complete list of features - here.
The software also offer a Pro version - which is more powerful, such as allowing you to select a section of your conversion (cut/merge), remix without re-encoding, custom audio streams etc - see here for more info.
A comparison between the two versions - here.

Name: Switch Sound File Converter 
Version: 4.35
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.nch.com.au/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (497KB)
Updated: 2012/10/14 by Marco
Description: Switch is one of the most stable and comprehensive multi format audio file converters available and is very easy to use.
Supported Audio File Formats (converting among these formats):
wav, mp3, wma, mp2, m4a, ogg, avi, mid, flac, mov, amr, aac, mpga, dct, au, aif/aiff, raw, dvf, vox, cda, gsm, dss, wmv etc.  (More audio formats)
There are two versions:
The free version of Switch is available for non-commercial use. The free audio converter does not expire and includes most common audio file formats. 
Highlights:
  • Extract audio from dvd
  • Inter-converting music from midi to wav etc.
  • Normalize audio levels
  • Batch convert thousands of files
A more detailed feature list is found here. This program also supports Mac.