From Visual CD Ripper makes direct digital copies from audio CDs and saves them as MP3s, WMAs, OGGs, or WAVs. Visual CD Ripper is very easy to use and have fast speed. Just click on one button a CDs will be extracted. Visual CD Ripper can also Convert WAV files to MP3,WMA and OGG files. Download CD Tracks' titles from the Internet CDDB. It's fast, easy to use while powerful. By changing MP3, WAV and WMA settings, you may make a choice between speed and quality. Visual CD Ripper key features: High Speed for Ripping and Converting. Play CD with Visual CD Ripper. Convert wav to mp3. Convert wav to WMA. Convert wav to OGG. Supports the multi-threaded operation of copying a CD and generating mp3 files at the same time Supports multiple CD-ROM drivers. Very easy to setup and use. Good Quality for Output Audio. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Comparison chart [ ] Features Data acquisition One track per file yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes yes yes Image as single file yes yes yes no no yes yes? Yes binary binary yes yes yes? Generation yes, more limited no no yes yes yes limited yes yes? Yes yes yes gap detection yes no no no yes yes yes no no yes? Yes yes yes detection yes (TOC only) yes (which?)? Yes (which?)? Yes (TOC+subcode) yes (TOC+subcode)?????? Yes (subcode) limited (detects but does not add to cue sheet) Offset correction yes yes yes no no yes yes yes yes limited no yes yes yes yes yes limited yes no no yes?? Yes yes yes C2 pointers initial pass initial pass, on re-reads no no no initial pass, on re-reads initial pass initial pass, on re-reads initial pass limited initial pass, on re-reads no? For error detection only no Defeat cache over-reading, FUA over-reading, FUA over-reading no no over-reading over-reading over-reading yes no no over-reading? FUA(?) in rare circumstances FUA(?) Additional features yes yes yes no no yes yes yes yes no no no yes no yes checking across pressings/offsets no yes yes n/a n/a yes yes?? N/a n/a n/a no n/a? No no no no yes no no no no no no no no no log file yes yes no no no yes yes yes no yes no yes yes yes yes Metadata,,, freedb, MusicBrainz, AMG, GD3, SonataDB, CD-Text, freedb, MusicBrainz (), Discogs (), CD-Text gracenote, MusicBrainz (Mac-only ), CD-Text AMG, CD-Text () freedb, MusicBrainz, Discogs freedb, MusicBrainz freedb, MusicBrainz freedb, MusicBrainz, CD-Text freedb, CD-Text no no GD3, others freedb, MusicBrainz, GD3 freedb, MusicBrainz Download Album Art yes yes yes yes yes yes? Yes no no no yes yes no Cost free free (21 days), then $38 free free free free free free free free free (21 days), then €32.60–55.00 free free (14 days), then $29.90 free (30 days), then $39.95 or €39.95 free License proprietary, freeware proprietary, shareware proprietary, freeware proprietary, freeware proprietary, freeware GPL GPL? Proprietary, freeware freeware proprietary, shareware GPL proprietary, shareware proprietary GPL OS Windows Windows, Mac Windows Windows, Mac Windows Windows Mac Mac Windows Windows Windows Mac OS X, Linux/BSD, Windows via Cygwin Windows Windows Linux (Unix-like) Notes: • Cdparanoia, a console application for Unix-like OSes, is one of many frontends to the Paranoia library, libparanoia. Additional OSes and features not directly related to the ripping process might be supported in other frontends. See for details. • A number of are available. Flags are read from TOC only, not subcode. • The EAC-style type will be used in single track mode. • dBpoweramp is unique in being able to compare metadata from several sources automatically to eliminate erroneous data. • In EAC, freedb access can be direct (via the legacy built-in engine), via the bundled freedb plug-in, or via the bundled CTDB plug-in. MusicBrainz access can be via the bundled CTDB plug-in, or via the freedb options with the. Discogs access is via the bundled CTDB plug-in only. • In PerfectRip, offset correction only works if the drive supports overreading. • PerfectRip uses C2 pointers to know where possible errors are, but it does not re-read; it just flags the rip as 'not perfect'. However, it does write the C2 pointers to a file which can be used by a separate program to interpolate bad samples. • In CloneCD, gaps and indexes are detected only if 'Read SubChannel Data from Audio Tracks' is enabled in the Audio CD profile. • CloneCD doesn't thoroughly explain its options or re-reading strategy. The disc type profiles allow setting Audio Extraction Quality(Bad/Medium/Good/Best), Fast Error Skip (Off/On/Automatic), Intelligent Bad Sector Scanner (enabled/disabled). The CD Reader (drive) configuration allows setting the number of Read Retries (0-15) and Error Correction (None/Software/Hardware). The effect of each of these options is undocumented, but seems to suggest C2 pointers are used. • Easy Audio Copy offers image extraction and cue sheet generation, including gap detection, only when this functionality is enabled via an advanced settings app, downloadable separately (see ). Windows CD Ripping Software Software. Free, secure and fast downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory - SourceForge.net. • Easy Audio Copy's website says CD information is obtained from 'various internet sites (for example, from the GD³ database).' • In EAC, C2 pointers are only considered if the Secure Mode option 'Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information' is checked. When checked, the lack of a pointer will prevent re-reads, thereby speeding up the rip, but possibly allowing errors to slip through, because at that point it is essentially the same as burst mode. • In its two error-detection modes, EZ CD Audio Converter uses C2 pointers to know where possible errors are, but it does not re-read; it just logs the track as being ripped with errors. Likewise, despite being advertised as a 'secure' ripper, it only uses CRC mismatch or sync errors to note the presence of possible errors; it does not try to get consistent results by re-reading. • In EZ CD Audio Converter, the drive's caching is disabled only when error detection mode #2 is used on a drive which reports that it does not support Accurate Stream. • XLD detects pre-emphasis in the TOC since version 2009/11/8 and in subcode since version 2014/4/27. • HTOA is not supported on dBpoweramp when ripping to one single FLAC file per track and using CUE sheet. See for details. Explanation of features [ ] One track per file [ ] A standard feature of rippers is the ability to rip each audio track to a separate file. Image as single file [ ] Some rippers can rip all the audio tracks to a single 'image' file, either audio (WAV or AIFF) or raw binary (.bin file containing raw LPCM). The image file normally doesn't include data tracks from Enhanced CDs. This feature can be useful when combined with cue sheets. Cue sheet generation [ ] Cue sheet generation means the ripper can create a cue sheet to preserve, at a minimum, the relationship between extracted audio and the disc layout (e.g., a list of how an image file is to be split back up into tracks). It usually also indicates the ability to read at least some of the following info from the CD subcode for inclusion in the cue sheet: disc catalog number, track ISRC codes, track indexes (including gaps), disc & track CD-Text data, and track flags. Depending on the ripper, copyright & flags might only be taken from the TOC, and CD-Text data might only be filled in with metadata from external sources. A 'no' or 'limited' in this row shouldn't be considered serious unless you're seeking to preserve as much info as possible, aside from the audio data. Gap detection [ ] Some rippers can read the disc's subcode to find each track's index 00 portion, i.e. The 'gap' or 'pre-gap', if one exists. Once detected, this info can be used to control whether & how these portions of the tracks are extracted, and the info can be written to a cue sheet so it can be written to a new CD later. Gap detection only refers to scanning for index 00, regardless of whether it contains silence or audible sound. A 'no' in this row is minor, unless, for example, you're 1. Ripping a CD-R that was burned with pure-silence gaps that you want to remove, or 2. Planning to burn a copy from the extracted audio (plus accompanying cue sheet) and you want the display on a regular CD player to count up from a negative number to 0:00 between certain tracks, just as it did on the original CD. The ability to scan for other index points in the subcode is a related feature not yet covered by this table, and may be connected to other features like cue sheet generation. For example, EAC always scans the subcode for gaps and 02-and-higher index points when generating a cue sheet or when doing an index-based rip. Similarly, a ripper might have the option to scan for 01-index points (track boundaries) in the subcode rather than relying on the TOC, which is sometimes deliberately incorrect or unreadable on some drives, as a copy-protection measure. Pre-emphasis detection [ ] A small minority of audio CDs are authored with. This means a high frequency boost was applied to the audio during the original digital recording. A corresponding high frequency cut must be applied for the audio to sound as originally intended. If a CD with pre-emphasis is played without this corresponding de-emphasis, the audio will have more high frequency content than intended, and will often sound like it is being replayed with the treble/tone control turned up. Flags to tell a CD player to apply de-emphasis can be stored in a CD's subcode, the TOC, or ideally both. There are several CDs with pre-emphasis which only include the flag in the subcode, and not the TOC. A conventional hardware CD player will enable its de-emphasis circuit based on the subcode, not the TOC. Some CD rippers detect pre-emphasis based on the TOC, not the subcode. Where known, this is noted in the above table. When detected by the ripper, the presence of pre-emphasis may be noted in the CUEsheet (if generated) or a tag. Alternatively the ripper may be configured to process the audio by applying a digital de-emphasis filter, thus generating audio without pre-emphasis that does not need to be tagged or flagged. Offset correction [ ] The ability of a ripper to compensate for a CD drive's inherent read offset, with sample-level precision, very slightly affects the accuracy of track boundaries, and plays a role in whether & how the fraction of a second of audio at the very beginning or very end of a disc is read. Properly configured rippers which correct for read offsets will produce consistent track boundaries, given the same discs to rip, thus allowing comparisons of ripped audio data made on different drives, e.g. Via AccurateRip. A 'no' in this row should only be cause for concern if you need to be sure track boundaries aren't very slightly off from how they were encoded on the disc. HTOA [ ] This indicates the ability to read data in the portion of the disc where may be located, if the drive also supports it. This is the index 00 portion of track 01, and if it exists at all, normally only contains a tiny amount of silence. If it does have non-silent audio, then to hear it, you would have to start playing track 1, then scan backward. Very few CDs have HTOA, and not all drives support reading it, so a 'no' in this row shouldn't be considered serious unless you're sure you need to read such CDs. C2 pointers [ ] This row indicates whether & how the ripper makes use of C2 pointers. A C2 pointer is a flag pointing to a particular byte in the audio data, indicating whether the drive suspects there was a read error which could not be corrected. This suspicion is based on the CD's built-in CIRC error detection and correction information. • 'None' means C2 pointers are ignored. • 'Initial pass' means that during the first read of a sector, an error-indicating C2 pointer results in the data being considered bad. This will prompt re-reads or flagging of the data as bad, depending on the ripper and its configuration. The lack of an error-indicating C2 pointer may be used by some rippers (such as EAC and XLD) as a reason to prevent re-reads. • 'On re-reads' means that the same check is done during re-reads, as well. The CIRC system on audio CDs is not foolproof; a very tiny percentage of uncorrectable errors can fail to result in error-indicating C2 pointers, especially in error-heavy areas of a disc. Also, some drive firmware simply doesn't reliably report errors in the C2 pointers, for reasons unknown. Defeat cache [ ] This row indicates whether & how the ripper works around the automatic data caching that occurs in some drives. Overreading is a brute-force, slow method where extra data is read in order to flush the cache. Force Unit Access (FUA) is a more efficient method that is only supported in some drives. If you don't have a drive that caches during DAE, this row may not be of interest to you. AccurateRip [ ] This row indicates whether the ripper can check the AccurateRip database to see if other people got the same audio data when ripping tracks from the same CD. A 'no' is nothing to worry about; any rip can be checked against AccurateRip later, using. AccurateRip checking across pressings/offsets [ ] Rips of visually identical CDs can have identical audio data, but offset slightly (shifted by a fraction of a second in one direction or the other), for various reasons. For rippers that do check AccurateRip, a 'yes' in this row indicates that AccurateRip will be checked for these slightly offset rips, thus increasing the chance of finding a match, if not also increasing the confidence of the rip's accuracy. A 'no' indicates that only exact matches for the pressing are checked for. CUETools db [ ] The CUETools Database (CTDB) is similar to AccurateRip, but it's for whole-CD rips only (not separate tracks) and has cross-pressing support built-in. It also stores recovery data from believed-good rips, so that a bad rip can be corrected with CUETools. A 'yes' in this row indicates the ripper can check for matching rips in CTDB and report whether a bad rip might be correctable. 'Plugin' indicates support is provided through an optional component. Log file [ ] This row indicates whether the ripper can generate a log file to document the ripping process, such as the ripper version and how it was configured, what data was checked for on the disc, any problems encountered, checksums, AccurateRip lookup results, etc. Metadata [ ] This row indicates whether and which metadata sources the ripper can use to get basic info about the CD (artist and title for the disc and each track, mainly). Most rippers use this info for naming and tagging files. Some include it in cue sheets, as if it were CD-TEXT. Download Album Art [ ] For rippers which tag files, this row indicates whether album art images are included in the metadata lookup capabilities. Some rippers only support album art via an optional component. Cost [ ] This row describes the pricing for a single-user license for the ripper. License [ ] This row describes the ripper's end-user licensing. 'GPL' is a standard, which, among other things, implies the source code is open-source. 'Proprietary' means a custom license and usually means the source code is private. 'Freeware' means the license does not require that users pay for the software. 'Shareware' means that payment is required, usually after a free trial period. OS [ ] This row indicates which operating systems the ripper natively works on. Keeping track of dozens of CDs, DVDs and other discs, as well as your hard disk’s contents can be hard. Portable Visual CD is a program designed to catalog the contents of your media storage devices. The software comes with a clean interface that should be easy to navigate by most users. In order to create a new catalog, you simply have to fill in the form. You must browse the disks in search for the drive or folder. Then, it can be named and an output location can be defined. Additionally, the catalog can be assigned a password to restrain access and it can be added to the “Favorites” list. This is particularly useful when you want to hide sensitive filenames. Portable Visual CD can index files from all types of media by name, date and store information such as ID3 tag data, audio-video and picture data. Also, the software can catalog files contained in archive files, such as ZIP, CAB, RAR and 7-ZIP. A certain file can be searched in all your collections. Thus, if all the CDs and drives have been cataloged, you can easily locate the desired file. Searches can be run by file name, folder name, comment and MP3 tag. Also, password protected catalogs can be skipped. The software comes with a few extra tools. Thus, you can rename files in bulk, find duplicate files, split items, read NFO files, create thumbnails and rename photos. All in all, Portable Visual CD is a tool that can come in handy quite often. If you have large collections of files, cataloging them could be the easy way to always keep track of every file. Furthermore, you can keep the software on any portable media, which means you don’t need to install it on the computer.
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