CDA Ripper Plus

CDA Ripper Plus is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you rip tracks from your audio CDs and convert the songs to different file formats, such as MP3, WAV, and WMA.

The utility reveals a well-organized suite of features. It also comes with support for a help manual in case you need to know more about its capabilities. You can make the main window remain on top of other programs and enable a transparent mode.

It is able to automatically detect an audio CD and read the tracks. Plus, it shows information about the name, size, and length of each audio file.

CDA Ripper Plus gives you the freedom to manually select the items that you want to rip. Thanks to the integrated audio player, you can listen to the tracks directly in the GUI. Plus, you can pause or stop the current selection and seek for a position in the audio streams.

What’s more, you are allowed to choose the output file format, namely MP3, WAV, or WMA, pick the saving directory and overwrite existing files, set the default saving folder, and configure file naming rules.

You may also edit each output file format in detail. MP3 files can be tweaked in terms of bitrate, quality, sample rate, mode, VBR quality, and minimum and maximum VBR values, while WAV files can be configured by adjusting the samples, bitrate, and channels. WMA items can be altered by specifying the codec and format.

Several events can be triggered at the end of a ripping and conversion task. You can make the app play a sound notification, open the destination folder, turn off the computer, execute an external program, and eject the CD door. Log files are kept for helping you get info about the processed files.

Tests have shown that CDA Ripper Plus carries out ripping and conversion tasks very quickly. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

CDA Ripper Plus lets you make use of a tag editor in order to make changes to the artist, title, album, year, genre, URL, copyright data, as well as lyrics.

General configuration tweaks enable you to set the default filename format and output file format, automatically activate the freeDB service in order to retrieve info about songs, and save logs to a plain text file.

To sum things up, CDA Ripper Plus helps you rip and convert audio tracks on the fly, get info about tracks by connecting to an online database, and turn off the computer at the end of a task. It is suitable for rookies and professionals alike.