Ripping music CDs is still something that many computer users do from time to time even with declining music CD sales. Audiograbber is a CD ripping software for Windows that offers a comparable functionality to all time favorite applications for that task like CDex or BonkEnc. It can be used to easily load audio CDs, lookup information at Freedb so that audio track information are automatically added to the audio tracks and rip the music to the local computer system in mp3 format.
Audiograbber supports several mp3 encoders including Lame and BladeEnc which are both linked on the program’s download page in case they are not installed on the user system.
The options of the program are pretty extensive. It is possible to edit the CD-ROM access method, naming patterns for the extracted audio tracks and directories, enable automatic deletion of leading and trailing silence, normalization, change the output format to wav, alter quality settings, configure external mp3 encoders and to edit tags directly in the interface.
It is furthermore possible to play audio tracks directly in Audiograbber which can be handy to fine tune the resulting mp3 or wav files.
Audiograbber can be downloaded directly from the developer’s website. It is compatible with most Windows operating systems including Windows 7 and 64-bit editions.
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While using Audiograbber for many years, the program has been great. But unfortunately it isn’t updated anymore. I have moved on to Exact Audio Copy, mainly because of its easy support for FLAC, and got tired of having Audiograbber crash on me in the middle of a rip. It could be because i’m running 64-bit, but who knows why, since it only happened randomly.
In other words, Audiograbber is a good old program to do what it says it will do, but I think EAC is much more advanced
Wow, this is the first program I used originally to rip my mp3′s, glad to see it’s still around today!
I second Exact Audio Copy, not for its FLAC compatibility, but for its routines to try to overcome read errors (which are extremely common) and its integration with a AccurateRip (or something like that) that checks CRC’s to make sure you’ve ripped a track exactly.
I switched to foobar2000 for mp3, ogg, and flac. I researched the optimal settings, and they were all se to the default on foobar. You need to load the compression apps, but that is easy (except for the nero acc or m4a (whatever) one… I had to hunt that one down).
I remember the time when Audiograbber was not freeware yet and without registration the program would only let you rip certain tracks of a CD (randomly chosen), so you had to close and reopen the program multiple times until you were able to rip them all.
Nowadays I also think that EAC is the way to go.
Yeah, I remember the other shareware version ‘audiocatalyst’ which I used a lot before switching to Musicmatch 6.1 because it seemed to have better CD identification or something…