Audio/Converters
commercial demo ($35}
Easy CD-DA Extractor
For ripping audio CDs, burning discs, and converting tracks, Easy CD-DA Extractor excels. The interface is pleasant, and you can configure the well-organized software to suit your needs. After you insert a CD, the Audio CD Ripper window displays information such as artist name, tracklist, production year, length of each track, and length of the total album. The output section of that window lets you set the destination folder, the quality and format of output tracks, and even the filename format. MP3...
open source
BonkEnc
BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. More formats are available through plug-ins. It makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.
open source
MediaCoder
MediaCoder is an open source universal audio/video batch converter, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of coding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and expandable architecture. MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.
freeware
FairStars CD Ripper
FairStars CD Ripper is a free powerful software for ripping audio CD tracks to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV formats files on-the-fly. Free CDDB is supported(Querying and Submiting). It supports normalization when ripping, and also support ID3 tag. FairStars CD Ripper also supports playback with its built-in player.
freeware
MP3 Quality Modifier
MP3 Quality Modifier makes it really easy to change the bitrate of your mp3 music collection so that the filesize can be dramatically reduced. With this advantage it's possible to put more music on your mp3-player or just to save some disk space. Even advanced tasks are possible: Downsampling, changing the used channels and so on. With the included presets it's simpler than ever before to manage all those settings. Best of all is that - unlike other software - the ID3 tags (title, album pictures etc.)...
freeware
Free CD to MP3 Converter
Free CD to MP3 Converter is an easy to use CD ripper that allows you to extract audio files from a CD and convert them to MP3, Wav or Ogg format. It can automatically retrieve title information from the CDDB database or rename the CD tracks title and remember them, normalize the output files and supports additional LAME options. You can also use the software to record to MP3 with your microphone, or to convert WAV files to MP3 or Ogg format.Easy to use interface that allows you to rip tracks of your...
freeware
Free Audio Converter
Free Audio Converter converts different audio file formats, including mp3, wav, m4a, aac, wma, ogg. Each format is provided with a corresponding profile kit and a preset editor in order to make a personalized preset. So you can create new presets, delete and edit the old ones (change the current parameters).
shareware
Total Audio Converter
Total Audio Converter will fulfill all your audio conversion needs. Choosing an audio converter you look for audio formats supported, the simplicity of use and the price. Good news - TAC is the thing you need. It supports WAV, MP3, APE, FLAC, OGG, MIDI, WMA, MP4, AAC, MPC and 10 more audio formats. Whatever format you will need to convert, TAC will do that. Albert Einstein once said that everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. That's what we had in mind developing Total Audio...
freeware
GermaniX Transcoder
GermaniX Transcoder is a simple, flixible and extensible Audio Transcoder for Microsoft Windows.
shareware ($25}
Protected Music Converter
Protected Music Converter is a software which allows you easily convert your protected (or unprotected) music files to most frequently used unprotected formats (MP3, OGG, unprotected WMA). Thus you can listen your music on your iPod, burn them to Audio CD, upload them on your cell phone, use them on whatever device you want, even if it doesn't support protected content playback.
shareware ($30}
Alt WAV MP3 WMA OGG Converter
Alt WAV MP3 WMA OGG Converter can convert files of all these formats between each other and rip CDs. You can make your music library easily and quickly. This program is intended for automatic (batch) conversion of music CDs. To create a list of files for encoding, you can simply drag & drop them to the Alt Converter main window from Explorer or other file manager. Before encoding, you choose: bitrate (up to 320 kbps), samplerate and stereo/mono mode and specify tags for files in list.
shareware ($25}
Tunebite
Tunebite lets you make unprotected copies of copy-protected music files by recording them while they are being played. Convert protected WMA files to MP3 without problems. Simply play copy-protected WMA and M4P music files in the Windows Media Player as usual. Using High Speed Digital Dubbing, Tunebite records them at ultra-high speed while you listen. Tunebite then saves the new recordings on your hard drive as unprotected MP3, WMA and OGG files—automatically, lightening fast and with the highest...
freeware
Lame Front-End
Lame Front-End is a graphical interface for MP3 encoder / decoder - lame.exe. This application is designed for LAME v3.97. It can work in batch mode, so it can be used by external applications to encoding/decoding files, e.g. by Exact Audio Copy, CDex.