- CD ripper
A CD ripper, CD grabber or CD extractor is a piece of
software designed to extract or "rip" rawdigital audio (in format commonly called CDDA) from acompact disc to a file or other output.Introduction
As an intermediate step, some ripping programs save the extracted audio in a
lossless (but possibly compressed format) such asWAV ,FLAC , or even raw PCM audio.The extracted audio can then be encoded with a
lossy codec likeMP3 ,Vorbis , WMA or AAC. The encoded files are more compact and are suitable for playback ondigital audio player s. They may also be played back in a media player program on a computer.Most ripping programs will assist in tagging the encoded files with
metadata . The MP3 file format, for example, allows tags with title, artist, album and track number information. Some will try to identify the disc being ripped by looking up network services like AMG's LASSO,FreeDB ,Gracenote 'sCDDB , GD3 [http://www.getdigitaldata.com] orMusicBrainz , or attempt text extraction ifCD-Text has been stored.Some all-in-one ripping programs can simplify the entire process by ripping and burning the audio to disc in one step, possibly re-encoding the audio on-the-fly in the process.
The first CD ripper for Unix systems was
cdda2wav , now considered superseded bycdparanoia .The
Jargon File entry for "rip" notes that the term originated inAmiga slang, where it referred to the extraction of multimedia content from program data.Front-ends (or all-in-one programs)
BSD andLinux *
Asunder
* Brasero
* Grip
*K3B
*Sound Juicer Mac OS *
iTunes
*Max (ripping software)
=Windows=*
Audiograbber
*Audio Transcoder [http://www.audio-transcoder.com]
*BonkEnc
*CDex
*dBpoweramp
*Easy CD-DA Extractor
*Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
*foobar2000
*iTunes
*Jack! The Knife
*MediaMonkey
*Musicmatch Jukebox
* Ripstation Micro Freeware [http://www.ripstationmicro.com]
*Spider Player
*Winamp
*Windows Media Player Back-ends
Applications
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Cdda2wav
*cdparanoia Software aiming to provide an accurate/secure rip
Some CD ripping software is specifically intended to provide an especially accurate or "secure" rip.
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CDex
*Cdda2wav
*cdparanoia
*dBpoweramp
*foobar2000
*Exact Audio Copy
*Jack! The Knife
*rubyripper [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/]ee also
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Ripping
*DVD ripper
*Hard disk recorder
*DVD Converter External links
* [http://jargon.watson-net.com/jargon.asp?w=rip Jargon File entry for "rip"]
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