Audiograbber - Free Program - Audio to MP3's

[Bob Lawrence]

I have been testing this program for my LCD project over in the electronics section and so far it's working great. I posted it here as well because others that may need it may not read the electronics section.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Overview (from website)

Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!

[Wiz Feinberg]

Bob;
You neglected to include a link to the program's home page (not the download link).

[Bob Lawrence]

Wiz, thanks!

I guess I'm having a bad copy and paste day.

Bob

[Jack Stoner]

Audiograbber does the job. We have discussed this program before, several years ago.

I have been using it since it was Shareware and had a paid version.

If I'm ripping Audio CD's, this is the program I use.

[Jon Light (deceased)]

I went on a download spree a couple of years ago and have way too many freeware audio utilities that I occasionally use and barely know how to use. I just recently rediscovered this one (that has been sitting on my desktop for forever) for simple ripping. The options of ripping to wav, mp3 etc. and the ease of use make it my ripper of choice. too.

Can someone explain 'normalize' to me? I've been clueless but too lazy to research it.

[Jack Stoner]

With Audiogabber it will "normalize" or set the level of each song it rips to the same volume level.

With some CD's, especially ones that have been burned, the songs may have different volume levels. With "normalize", or whatever you want to call it, it will set the songs to the same max level.

[Gary Shepherd]

I use Exact Audio Copy when I need to rip something from a CD.