Good Audio CD to MP3 software?

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General Software Discuss, Good Audio CD to MP3 software? at Software forum; Currently, I use Real Player to rip CDs to .mp3. Its pretty freaking fast, but I get an occasional error, and usually 1 track per cd won't be recorded. I then use a free ripper, "free CD Ripper" that I got on download.com to rip the missing track. So, this

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delafoo (New on Forum)
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Posted: 22-01-2006
Currently, I use Real Player to rip CDs to .mp3. Its pretty freaking fast, but I get an occasional error, and usually 1 track per cd won't be recorded. I then use a free ripper, "free CD Ripper" that I got on download.com to rip the missing track. So, this will take a long time unless I get a newer fast ripper (I'm backing up several audiobooks that contain over 100 Audio CDs).

Any suggestions for a fast Audio CD to .mp3 ripper? It doesn't matter if its pay or free.

Thanks to all who reply!
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The best at all is Exact Audio Copy, and it's free
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Be sure to check out some guides/tutorials on configuring it for your drive. There are a number of options that must be set in order to get optimal results, and they differ for each optical drive.
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delafoo (New on Forum)
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Does this always extract first, and then convert to .mp3 with LAME? Its about twice as fast as the Free CD Recorder, but about 1/3 as fast as Real Player which converts to .mp3 on the fly.

Any other program suggestions?
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CDex (sorry, don't have link right now, but you can find with google)

also free
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Does this always extract first, and then convert to .mp3 with LAME? Its about twice as fast as the Free CD Recorder, but about 1/3 as fast as Real Player which converts to .mp3 on the fly.

Any other program suggestions?
There are no other programs in even the same vague leage as EAC. It's 1/3 of the speed of Real Player, but Real Player is a festering pile of dog dookie... and does burst ripping (inferior rip method).

NO other program will produce bit-perfect rips. It's just not even a contest.
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CDex (sorry, don't have link right now, but you can find with google)

also free
CDex here too, although a lot of folk prefer EAC. Both free, so I guess you could take your pick!



Edited to agree with Gurm wholeheartedly about RealPlayer!
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delafoo (New on Forum)
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Thanks Geno888, CDex works really well and has the speed I need.... As I don't really need a bit-perfect rip, just a near-CD quality rip from my new, unused CDs.

This works well without the missing track errors I get from Real.

Thanks for all responses!
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