I remember using CDParanoia on Linux and some GUI for it (Sound Juicer?), CDex and Exact Audio Copy.
Something command line based on Linux that produced mp3. I don’t remember the name.
Whoa. Blast from the past.
Alcohol 120%
CloneCD
Every time I think back I picture Winamp. And sure enough I looked it up and Winamp could rip tracks and the UI is exactly what I remember
So: Winamp
Winamp. Still do.
I didn’t rip CDs but I did use StreamRipper, which was created by my officemate at the time, Jon Clegg (not the British comedian). To avoid getting sued into bankruptcy he eventually had to dissociate himself from the software after record industry lawyers sent him C&D letters - which I just now found online, holy crap! We were working together as contractors at Microsoft at the time. He was a very clever and cool guy. Hope you’re out there still kicking ass, Jon!
Nero(n) burning ROM(e)
Later K3B.
Same
Oh my god, how could I not have seen that. Now the icon makes sense too.
cdparanoia. Still do.
Exact Audio Copy. Open source and guaranteed perfect copy. Most fast ones would have single bit errors.
EAC is closed source freeware. Still the best tool back then under Windows
Still is, right? (Open for recommendations)
I don’t know, haven’t been using Windows since a long time ago, but given the fact that ripping CDs isn’t that common nowadays I’d be surprised if a new tool came out that is better than EAC.
Same. EAC + LAME using config guides from NMP3s at the SomethingAwful forums, and then later Oink.
Since nobody else has said it yet - that’s before my time. I’ll ask my folks.
Audiograbber for a while, then used Foobar2000 since I always had it open anyway, and then finally EAC because its the best and I am still using it.
CDex
I’ve got a white whale album. I routinely bought CDs from a secondhand store and found some half-decent techno labeled Amixiam - Dream Frequencies. Quite possibly just some guy’s personal work, packaged with a modicum of professionalism. No internet search has ever turned up a damn thing, and I no longer live on the same continent as that thrift shop.
But then - a few years ago - I was going through old CDs, ripping them anew for modern codecs and decent bitrates. CDex filled in the track names automatically. A database recognized the disc! Someone out there had this information! And seconds later I realize that someone was me, sending the data to CDDB automatically, when I had ripped it the first time. I played a fifteen-year brick joke on myself.
That’s awesome. I used to manually enter all the info myself too whenever it wouldn’t come up, back in the day
That’s the one. It would pull data from online so you wouldn’t have to enter all the track names.
I couldn’t remember but knew someone would post the name.
never used it to rip discs, but it was the very first windows program i used for recording analog inputs to convert tapes and records to digital.
i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.
