Best CD to MP3 Ripper – FreeRip

If you’re an audiophile, and I am, you need a good CD to MP3 Ripper as much as you need a great amplifier or speakers. Maybe more… You see, if you don’t get a perfect lossless quality rip from your CD’s, you are just listening to digital junk. And maybe you aren’t needing quite the lossless rip I require (meaning you would sacrifice some audio clarity for lots of file size reduction), but you still don’t want to hand your CD ripping job to any software other than a pro… And that is what FreeRIP CD to MP3 Converter is the granddaddy of doing.

FreeRip has been around for over a decade. Every six months or so it gets its regular update and gets better like clockwork each time. It is one of the most downloaded applications of all time – and it does one thing very well: It will rip your CD’s into most any digital format you like (MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis or Flac). As of this writing, I have over 44,000 songs on nearly 3 terabytes of hard drive space and I don’t download my music – it is all purchased so that I get a perfect recording. And iTunes doesn’t rip my cd’s into a FLAC format (which you kind of need) – so my digitally inspired world is heavily dependent on FreeRip’s simple masterpiece. It’s easy, powerful and I love it almost as much as my Brick (which delivers those sweet digital sounds into a my McIntosh amp… (I just turned up the volume…)