FreeRip is an application that lets you save audio CD tracks to Wav or MP3 or Ogg Vorbis audio files.
FreeRIP is also an audio file converter since it can convert and encode Wav files to Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) or MP3 (.mp3), and back.

FreeRIP is a CD ripper, this means that it can record digital audio tracks directly from audio CD to files on your hard drive (this process is known as "ripping"). You can save tracks as CD quality WAV files or encode them to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 compressed audio format.

freedb CD database, and ID3 Tagging (Version 1 and 2) are supported: FreeRIP automatically downloads album and song titles from freedb Internet databases and stores them in the MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files themselves.

FreeRIP lets you convert audio files from a format to another. You can convert Wav files to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, and back MP3 or Ogg Vorbis to Wav. You can also convert MP3 to Ogg, or Ogg to MP3, and even convert MP3 to MP3, Ogg to Ogg or Wav to Wav, changing encoding options.

FreeRIP includes two audio converters: a single file converter and a multi file converter that let you convert many files at a time.

While ripping or converting tracks, FreeRIP lets you manually adjust track volume, or you can choose to let it do the work automatically using an adaptive automatic volume control algorithm.

FreeRIP also includes a music search bar to help you find MP3 and music files on the Internet or in Amazon.com CD catalogue.FreeRIP is a tool that records audio tracks from CDs.

FreeRIP is simple and easy to use and it is distributed at no charge, free to download and use.

Moreover FreeRIP includes a music search bar.

Here are some key features of "FreeRIP":

· Extracts audio tracks from audio Compact Discs to WAV, OGG Vorbis and MP3 files.
· Multi track extractor: can extract more tracks to a single audio file.
· Raw track extractor: can extract specific frames from an audio CD.
· Converts existing audio files from WAV/MP3/OGG to MP3, WAV and OGG Vorbis format, and let you change their properties (stereo<->mono, bitrate,...).
· Adjusts audio tracks volume both manually and automatically.
· Includes integrated support for freedb, the Internet CD database: FreeRIP automatically detects CDs and retrieve from freedb.org tracks title.
· Local CD database to speedup CD data retrieval.
· Full support for freedb submissions: you can contribute to freedb.org web site.
· Includes integrated support for ID3 v1/2 tagging.
· Integrated support to create playlist (M3U/PLS/B4S/HTML/CSV) of ripped tracks.
· Integrated music search bar: search the Internet for audio files.
· Multi language interface, languages supported: English, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Czech; many others are coming.
· Very easy to use.
· Totally compatible with Windows9x/ME and NT/2000/XP.


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What's New in This Release:

· Updated Turkish language file
· Added WMA file reading capability (Experimental)
· Fixed: default value for read mode to MMC (blank audio files on new installs)
· Now FreeRIP use a default email address in freedb settings page
· Deferred ASPI initialization to fix Win98 random faults problem
· Now FreeRIP can handle USB and Firewire CDRoms on Win NT/XP/2000 too
· Various code clean up
· Multi language setup
· Added My Video Daily bundled setup (opt-in): great video contents on your PC desktop
· Now FreeRIP MP3 decoder correctly skips long ID3V2 tags (like in iTunes MP3s)
· Fixed a problem in Wav header generation with mono audio streams
· Fixed problems in stereo/mono conversion while converting to MP3 and Ogg