Easy Audio Copy

Despite our transition towards other music formats, tracks stored on audio CDs still offer superior sound quality in most situations. However, it is difficult to find devices that can play them, as CD players are a thing of the past.

If you are looking for an application that can help you convert the tracks on your discs to formats that can be played on your computer or mobile devices, you should try Easy Audio Copy.

It is a very simple program, designed with novices in mind, that allows you to rip audio CDs by following a series of steps. It does not require you to have any knowledge of audio formats and offers and easy-to-follow wizard mode.

On application launch, it scans your computer for disc drives containing audio CDs and automatically extracts cover, artist and track information from them. Easy Audio Copy can also obtain this data from various websites and combine the results.

If the information is not found, you can perform a new scan, based on the CD's barcode or title and artist data.

Easy Audio Copy allows you to choose which audio format the songs on your CD should be converted to. It can encode files to all three supported formats in one operation, should you need to play the extracted music on various devices. However, it is not possible to specify where the output files should be saved on your computer.

You can select which songs you want to be extracted from the inserted disc and modify title, artist, composer, year and genre information.

As a downside, the program can only can only be used in full screen mode, which can be irritating when trying to perform other tasks while a disc is being processed.

Overall, Easy Audio Copy is a straightforward program, aimed at novice users who wish to extract tracks from audio CDs and save them to MP3, WAV or FLAC. It features an intuitive interface, designed to simplify the conversion process.