Updated: 12/29/2005
CDAudio
Cdex
Rip to WAV, MP2 or MP3. CDex is a tool to do all sorts of things audio related. Mainly focused on ripping and converting, things like turning your home Compact Disc collection into an mp3 collection on your hard drive become extremely easy. With built in support for many encoders you wont find any shortage of options for your media files.
  1. Easy interface
  2. Media file player
  3. Create PLS and M3U playlist files
  4. Advanced jitter correction.
  5. Support for many audio formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE, etc)
  6. Normalizes audio files.
  7. Supports CDDB
  8. Supports transcoding of compressed audio files.
  9. Support for recording from analog input line.
Also at http://cdex.n3.net/ [Report a dead link]
www.cdex.n3.net

Cdorc
Make CD autorun files, print CD covers, and more. [Report a dead link]
http://www.cdorc.com/

CDR Faq
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www.cdrfaq.org

Convertors
Many convertors for audio and 3d file formats. [Report a dead link]
http://www.file-ext.com/multimedia.html

dbPowerAmp
dBpowerAMP can convert to and from Wave, Mp3 and from CD Audio (CDA) files, rip audio CDs, view ID3 tag information and more. It works from the Windows Explorer right click menu, where it provides quick access to one-click conversion as well as a new pop-up info box that displays detailed file information for supported formats. In addition, you can use dBpowerAMP to extract (rip) files from a CD, featuring automatic CDDB support. CD Ripping is very fast and according to the developer s tests it claims to be the fastes around. You can install optional Codecs for additional conversion options (e.g. WMA to MP3). [Report a dead link]
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwaudiocodec.html

Feurio
Demo not disabled. Rip audio and write audio CDs only. [Report a dead link]
www.feurio.com

Free MP3 Workshop
Free MP3 Workshop is an audio tool suite to make MP3 files or WAV files from your CDs and to decode MP3 files for burning to a CD-R. It comes with many additional features, including an MP3 splitter, Jitter Correction, Intelligent Normalization, MP3 Batch Retagger, Explorer shell extensions and more. In addition, the program supports fade in/out, pause/resume processing and CDDB information via the internet. MP3 Workshop can also extract from a CD straight to an MP3 with normalization. The interface is straightforward and easy to use. Includes the LAME encoder. [Report a dead link]
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwaudiocodec.html

MP3 Direct Cut , 90kb
Edit MP3 files, change volume, move parts around, etc. Rip directly to MP3. [Report a dead link]
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/

MP3 Workshop
Convert MP3 to WAV and back. Rip directly to MP3, or convert MP3 to WAV for writing to CD. [Report a dead link]
http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~mp3workshop/

mp3gain
Normalize volume on all your MP3s. [Report a dead link]
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

Rightclick MP3
Plain and simply the easiest way to Encode or Decode an MP3. To use it, you simply RightClick on an .MP3 file and choose to Decode it, or you can RightClick on a .WAV file and choose to Encode it. It's that simple! There's also the option to encode any .WAV file in a directory AND on all methods of encoding, you can optionally choose to have the .WAV's deleted after successfully encoding them. [Report a dead link]
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwaudiocodec.html

Rip Wiz
Audio extractor, extracts audio from CDs to WAV or MP3. 70% faster than other rippers. [Report a dead link]
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=ripwiz2003

Zlurp , 1,790kb
CD ripper and encoder. Also burns music CDs. [Report a dead link]
http://www.zlurp.com