Can anyone please suggest a simple to use program that will allow me to copy
normal audio CD's to my hardrive, then save them as MP3 files ready for
burning when I have a CD full.

I think that's what I want to do. I have just bought a personal CD player
that plays MP3 as well as ordinary Cd's. I want to make a compilation of my
favourite bits of music to avoid having to carry half a dozen CD's around
with me.
Thanks
Bill

Bill wrote:
> Can anyone please suggest a simple to use program that will allow me to copy
> normal audio CD's to my hardrive, then save them as MP3 files ready for
> burning when I have a CD full.
>
> I think that's what I want to do. I have just bought a personal CD player
> that plays MP3 as well as ordinary Cd's. I want to make a compilation of my
> favourite bits of music to avoid having to carry half a dozen CD's around
> with me.
> Thanks
> Bill
>
>

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

P.

"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d9kain$db4$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Can anyone please suggest a simple to use program that will allow me to
> copy normal audio CD's to my hardrive, then save them as MP3 files ready
> for burning when I have a CD full.
>
> I think that's what I want to do. I have just bought a personal CD player
> that plays MP3 as well as ordinary Cd's. I want to make a compilation of
> my favourite bits of music to avoid having to carry half a dozen CD's
> around with me.
> Thanks
> Bill
>
>
CDEX

>On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:16:36 +0100, "Bill" wrote:

>Can anyone please suggest a simple to use program that will allow me to copy
>normal audio CD's to my hardrive, then save them as MP3 files ready for
>burning when I have a CD full.
>
>I think that's what I want to do. I have just bought a personal CD player
>that plays MP3 as well as ordinary Cd's. I want to make a compilation of my
>favourite bits of music to avoid having to carry half a dozen CD's around
>with me.
>Thanks
>Bill
>
Exact Audio Copy is a Audio Grabber for CD-ROM drives.

Features:
- Usage of the Windows 95 and Windows NT ASPI Interface, so both SCSI
and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported
- Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction)
- Secure, fast and burst extraction methods selectable. Fast extraction
should run at the same speed as other grabbers, but is probably not
exact anymore. Burst mode just grabs the audio data without any
synchronization.
- Read error and complete loss of sync detection and correction in
secure modes, as far as possible
- Output of time positions of all non-exact corrections and listen to
these positions
- Copy of ranges of music data, not only tracks
- Automatic Speed reduction on errors and fallback afterwards
- Normalization of extracted audio
- Usage of the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct
compression e.g. to MP3 waves
- Support for the BladeEnc DLL that is usable like an ACM Codec for
online MP3 compression
- Support of external MP3, VQF, RA and AAC encoders for automatic
compression after extraction
- Batch compression and decompression of/to WAV files
- Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression
- Detection of pre-track gaps
- Detection of silence in pre-track gaps
- Automatic creation of CUE sheets for CDRWin, including all gaps,
indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC
- CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges
- Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an accurate
stream and/or does caching
- Sample Offsets for drives with no accurate streams, including the
option of filling up missing samples with silence
- Option for synchronizing tracks for non-accurate stream drives
- Filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini
support and more features like ID3 tagging
- Browse and edit local database
- Certified Escient ® CDDB(TM) Compatible
- Local CDDB support
- Record and Loop Record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc.
- Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag
- Catalog extraction function
- Multisession (CD-Extra) support
- CD-Text support
- CD-Write support for some drives
- ID3 Tag editor with drag and drop possibility from track listing and
database
- Glitch removal after extraction
- Small WAV editor with the following functionality: delete, trim,
normalize, pad, glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of
ranges, noise reduction, fade in/out, undo (and more)
- Program is Cardware, so feel free to copy

http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/

"Mel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> >On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:16:36 +0100, "Bill" wrote:
>
> >Can anyone please suggest a simple to use program that will allow me to
copy
> >normal audio CD's to my hardrive, then save them as MP3 files ready for
> >burning when I have a CD full.
> >
> >I think that's what I want to do. I have just bought a personal CD
player
> >that plays MP3 as well as ordinary Cd's. I want to make a compilation of
my
> >favourite bits of music to avoid having to carry half a dozen CD's around
> >with me.
> >Thanks
> >Bill
> >
> Exact Audio Copy is a Audio Grabber for CD-ROM drives.


This is a only a beta version from the final program that will be
distributed later in this year, at least I hope so.
This version should only be used by experienced users.
I will not take responsibility for any damage to your hard- and/or software
that is caused directly or indirectly
by this program. So download this beta version on your own risk.




>
> Features:
> - Usage of the Windows 95 and Windows NT ASPI Interface, so both SCSI
> and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported
> - Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction)
> - Secure, fast and burst extraction methods selectable. Fast extraction
> should run at the same speed as other grabbers, but is probably not
> exact anymore. Burst mode just grabs the audio data without any
> synchronization.
> - Read error and complete loss of sync detection and correction in
> secure modes, as far as possible
> - Output of time positions of all non-exact corrections and listen to
> these positions
> - Copy of ranges of music data, not only tracks
> - Automatic Speed reduction on errors and fallback afterwards
> - Normalization of extracted audio
> - Usage of the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct
> compression e.g. to MP3 waves
> - Support for the BladeEnc DLL that is usable like an ACM Codec for
> online MP3 compression
> - Support of external MP3, VQF, RA and AAC encoders for automatic
> compression after extraction
> - Batch compression and decompression of/to WAV files
> - Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression
> - Detection of pre-track gaps
> - Detection of silence in pre-track gaps
> - Automatic creation of CUE sheets for CDRWin, including all gaps,
> indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC
> - CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges
> - Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an accurate
> stream and/or does caching
> - Sample Offsets for drives with no accurate streams, including the
> option of filling up missing samples with silence
> - Option for synchronizing tracks for non-accurate stream drives
> - Filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini
> support and more features like ID3 tagging
> - Browse and edit local database
> - Certified Escient ® CDDB(TM) Compatible
> - Local CDDB support
> - Record and Loop Record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc.
> - Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag
> - Catalog extraction function
> - Multisession (CD-Extra) support
> - CD-Text support
> - CD-Write support for some drives
> - ID3 Tag editor with drag and drop possibility from track listing and
> database
> - Glitch removal after extraction
> - Small WAV editor with the following functionality: delete, trim,
> normalize, pad, glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of
> ranges, noise reduction, fade in/out, undo (and more)
> - Program is Cardware, so feel free to copy
>
> http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/
>

>On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:03:36 -0400, "Helen" <@abuse.roman.gov> wrote:

>This is a only a beta version from the final program that will be
>distributed later in this year, at least I hope so.
>This version should only be used by experienced users.
>I will not take responsibility for any damage to your hard- and/or software
>that is caused directly or indirectly
>by this program. So download this beta version on your own risk.
>
Oh, Please!

Beta or not Exact Audio Copy is the most accurate ripper arround, so
don't be scared-off by this nay sayer who'd like you to think the sky
will fall if you use it. Been using EAC for the last five years, and
still waiting for the sky to fall.

"Helen" <@abuse.roman.gov> wrote in message
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> This is a only a beta version from the final program that will be
> distributed later in this year, at least I hope so.
> This version should only be used by experienced users.

Thanks for the warning. I think it pretty obvious from my original post I
am NOT an experienced user.

Bill

"Pilbs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:d9kain$db4$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Can anyone please suggest a simple to use program that will allow me to
>> copy normal audio CD's to my hardrive, then save them as MP3 files ready
>> for burning when I have a CD full.

Thanks to P and Pilbs for suggesting Cdex. I have downloaded it and it
seems to fit the bill, well at least Bill can see what he has to do!!

Bill

Helen wrote:

> This is a only a beta version from the final program that will be
> distributed later in this year, at least I hope so.
> This version should only be used by experienced users.
> I will not take responsibility for any damage to your hard- and/or
> software that is caused directly or indirectly
> by this program. So download this beta version on your own risk.

It has been "beta" for at least five years, used by droves.

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

"Mel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:03:36 -0400, "Helen" <@abuse.roman.gov> wrote:
>
> >This is a only a beta version from the final program that will be
> >distributed later in this year, at least I hope so.
> >This version should only be used by experienced users.
> >I will not take responsibility for any damage to your hard- and/or
software
> >that is caused directly or indirectly
> >by this program. So download this beta version on your own risk.
> >
> Oh, Please!
>

The above is verbatim from the site itself. Anyone who goes to the site can
read it for themselves.



> Beta or not Exact Audio Copy is the most accurate ripper arround, so
> don't be scared-off by this nay sayer who'd like you to think the sky
> will fall if you use it. Been using EAC for the last five years, and
> still waiting for the sky to fall.