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Top 3 Free and Discount CD Ripper Apps. Guide to choosing the best one easily

User Guide

CD Ripper (Wiki) is a kind of program for copying or extracting music from a CD to the computer, and CD Ripper program is usually used to backup CD collection as .wav image and cue sheet in secure mode, and convert CD tracks to a popular sound file formats, such as WAV, MP3, APE, FLAC, AAC, and Apple Lossless etc.

Actually, most of the best CD Ripper programs are Freeware.

If you only want to extract your music from a CD to the computer as digital music file (.wmv, .mp3), the Windows Media Player, iTunes and MAX (Mac OS X 10.4 or later) are the best choice.
Rip an Audio CD to MP3 using Windows Media Player
If you want to backup your CD music as lossless quality (FLAC), the X Lossless Decoder or Exact Audio Copy is a good choice.
If you have further advanced requirements, like CUEtools db, Gap Detection, Error Detection, ( such as your disc is physically damaged and can't rip perfectly, CueTools has dark magic powers to correct files if they are in the database.), the CUERipper will be your choice.

CD Ripper Important Feature Tags DefinitionAccurateRip: It helps users make sure whether the ripper can check the AccurateRip database to see if other people got the same audio data when ripping tracks from the same CD.
CUEtools DB: The CUETools Database (CTDB) is similar to AccurateRip, but it's for whole-CD rips only (not separate tracks) and has cross-pressing support built-in. It also stores recovery data from believed-good rips, so that a bad rip can be corrected with CUETools.
Download Album Art: It helps to check whether album art images are included in the metadata lookup capabilities. Some rippers only support album art via an optional component.
Offset Correction: The ability of a ripper to compensate for a CD drive's inherent read offset, with sample-level precision, very slightly affects the accuracy of track boundaries, and plays a role in whether & how the fraction of a second of audio at the very beginning or very end of a disc is read. Properly configured rippers which correct for read offsets will produce consistent track boundaries, given the same discs to rip, thus allowing comparisons of ripped audio data made on different drives, e.g. via AccurateRip.

You can get a completed comparison of CD Rippers table in there: Comparison of CD rippers

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Best Free (2)

: CUETools

240+

Free

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: Exact Audio Copy

210+

Free

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Top Sellers (1)

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: dBpoweramp CD Ripper

340+

$39

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Total: 1