Best CD to MP3 software

[woodleadam]

Hi guys,
was hoping someone could help if possible. Whats the best FREE convertor to download that converts CDs to MP3. I was hoping for something that was easy to use and allowed you to edit mp3 tags for 'Artist', 'Album', 'Genre' etc.
Hope this makes sense.

Thanks
Adam

 

[Chris1.4RT]

As much as a lot of people don't like it, iTunes does all that and it's free.

 

[Nash]

Windows Media Player Version 10 does it too - select your songs, click RIP and it copys them fron the CD, to you H/D as .mp3's easy!

 

[woodleadam]

Is there an option in itunes to turn off convertion to AAC format. It automatically converts to AAC when you put the files in the library on my copy.

 

[woodleadam]

Does WMP10 rip to MP3, I thought it only ripped to WMA format.

 

[Nash]

Does WMP10 rip to MP3, I thought it only ripped to WMA format.

go into TOOLS then Options then select "COPY MUSIC" then select "FORMAT" then clikc the drop down arrow and change it from WMA to MP3

 

[ant]

audiocatalyst.

 

[Guy]

windows media player

 

[Dink]

winamp

 

[raf182]

FreeRip

iTunes and WMP are good if you are using JUST them to rip/play/take over the world. IMO for copying to other devices then the freebie ones are far superior.

 

[Darren S]

If using Windows Media Player - make sure you chose the Loseless standard for audio ripping. Uses the most space/memory - but sounds much better....

D.

 

[Chris1.4RT]

Is there an option in itunes to turn off convertion to AAC format. It automatically converts to AAC when you put the files in the library on my copy.

Yes it's in the encoding options somewhere or other.

 

[wozzaa]

I use Easy CD-DA Extractor.

Cracking lil program rips a cd in around 7 minutes and good quality as well its $35 to buy it but can just download and find cd keys knocking about the net for it.

 

[biojo]

audiocatalyst.

yep that or audiograbber


but i dont think its free

 

[RB_172]

The 'best' combo is probably EAC (Exact Audio Copy), followed by something like LAME for the actual WAV -> MP3 conversion.

Both are free.

EAC queries an internet database to get album/track names for the inserted cd and that info can be put into ID3 tags automatically.

 

[Rich]

itunes here - mainly as I am Mac based and it does all it needs to do easily.

 

[Day]

Musicmatch, JetAudio, Winamp or QCD

I prefer the latter myself.