AV CD Grabber

AV CD Grabber is a software tool which enables you to rip audio CDs and save songs to the computer, using many file types and little system resources.

The installation process is typical and uneventful, and upon completing it, the interface you are greeted by presents a modern and simple design. It is accessible to all user categories, be they experienced or not.

After selecting the disc, the application will detect all audio files, and will display them in the main window, as a list, along with information such as track number, title, artist, album, date and length. The total number of items and total duration can also be viewed in the main window.

Aside from that, it is possible to manually input or edit each and every song’s ID3 tags (e.g. title, album, disk number, year, genre, comments, composer etc.), as well as get them from the Internet.

At export, a large number of formats are supported, out of which we mention AAC, APRE, FLAC, MP3, OGG, MP4 and WMA. In addition to that, you can choose the output directory, what action to take when encountering existing files (skip, ask, overwrite or add number), change the sample rate, channels, bits per sample and quality.

The grabbing process take a toll on the computer’s performance, as CPU and memory usage is quite high. This means it is a good idea not to run other apps while this one is ripping.

In conclusion, AV CD Grabber is a useful piece of software from extracting audio tracks from CDs, with a good response time, easy-to-use environment and many options to tweak.