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CD/DVD
and Music Software
by Christy Holt
Music Software
There is plenty of free and trial version (shareware)
audio software available for download these days.
You can convert, encode, rip, edit, burn, and even
record audio off LPs or in some cases, you can record
any sound you can hear using these software products.
Below is a list of some popular trial version and
free audio software and their respective attributes.
Blaze Media Pro
The most powerful of these products is Blaze Media
Pro, an all-in-one audio/video converter (CD, MP3,
WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, etc); editor;
recorder; CD ripper; audio, video (VCD/SVCD/DVD),
data CD/DVD burner; and much more in one fast and
easy-to-use product. The software offers an easy
to use, fast, and feature-rich MPEG encoder in the
video converter feature, which also provides an
option to encode a video of up to four hours so
that it will fit on a single DVD disc. Of course,
the software supports all the features you'd expect
in such a high-powered product, such as CDDB/FreeDB/CDDB2
support, MP3 tagging, audio recognition, audio and
video joining, extracting audio or images from video
files, creating new video files from images and
audio, and a seemingly endless amount of other useful
features. The software is priced at $50, but is
well worth the cost with all the features packed
inside, taking the place of many other products
in a single application. The file size is 11767
KB.
EasyISO
EasyISO is simple, standalone (no install) CD Burning
software with support for CDR/CDRW, DVD+RW, DVD-R
and DVD-RW. It provides on-the-fly burning without
creating any temporary files. EasyISO supports Joliet
as well as Multi-session, Disc Caching and Burn
Proof. You can also create bootable CDs and test
write before burning. It uses the standard or any
other ASPI-driver. The file size is 282 KB.
DVD Decrypter
Ripping in DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 (last freeware
version) is easy. By default, the program will automatically
select the source (i.e. the DVD drive) and the destination
folder, by finding the drive with the most free
disk space. The “Main Movie” files will
have already been selected for you, so you only
have to click to begin ripping.
In about 10 - 30 minutes (depending on the speed
of your computer / DVD drive) it will finish and
you will have quality DeCSS'd VOB files on your
hard disk. From there you can choose to watch them
with the likes of PowerDVD and WinDVD or you can
re-encode them to MPEG1 (VCD) or DivX. The file
size is 858 KB.
dBpowerAmp Music Converter
Using dBpowerAmp Music Converter 10.0 (last freeware
version) dMC, you can digitally rip sound from audio
CDs to a multitude of formats and convert from one
format to another while preserving ID tags. Nearly
every audio type is supported, including MP3, MP4,
Windows Media Audio (WMA), OGG Vorbis, AAC, Monkey's
Audio, and FLAC (with optional installs from Codec
Central). For Windows Explorer integration, right-click
“Convert To” and pop up useful information
on audio files (such as bit rate and length). You
can also record from LPs with Auxiliary Input. The
file size is 1391 KB.
My MP3 Recorder
With My MP3 recorder, you can record internet radio,
save to MP3 or WAV. This software is 100% Spyware/Adware
free. Record streaming audio from the internet,
microphone or any other source for that matter,
works directly with your system sound card. If you
can hear it, you can record it. This program is
meant to be extremely intuitive to use, with enough
features to get the job done quickly and easily.
Use the scan tool to list all MP3s and WAV, AIF,
SAW or Sun AU audio files on your entire computer.
You can play and record portions of any of these
files. It has customizable colors, timer, on top
mode and skinning. The file size is 4571 KB.
Deep Ripper
DeepRipper is a freeware that will convert your
audio CD tracks to a first-grade MP3, OGG, or WAV
files. There is a number of presets for less experienced
users and full set of manual settings for experts.
It allows you to take a full control over CD ripping,
do it quickly, easily and in a flexible way. Extracting
digital music files from CDs becomes simple, quick,
and painless with DeepRipper. You have full control
over constant or variable bitrate encoding, ID3
tags management, MPEG version selection- all for
first-grade ripping. The file size 769 KB.
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 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 format. It has easy to use interface that
allows you to rip tracks of your Audio CD just by
several clicks. It also can clear the play list
of RealOne Player and Windows Media Player. The
file size is 845 KB.
Softdiv CD Ripper
Softdiv CD Ripper makes direct digital copies from
audio CDs and saves them as MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV,
RAW, VOX, G.723, and G.726. Softdiv CD Ripper also
supports CDDB (Internet Compact Disc Database) where
you can retrieve disc information from the Internet.
Softdiv CD Ripper also includes an ID3v2 editor
to read and edit the audio files. File size is 3.97
MB.
CDBurnerXP Pro
CDBurnerXP Pro is a freeware CD burner solution
with many features. It can burn Data-CDs/DVDs, Audio-CDs,
and ISOs. Since version 2.2.5, it can also create
ISO files. It also has a simple cover printing function,
rip audio-CDs with freedb.org support, a small audio
editor, MP3 tag editor, and a converter for WAV
and MP3. There are a lot of settings to customize
CDBXPP. Burnproof-technology to prevent buffer underrun
errors is also supported. File size is 15 MB.
Freecorder
Freecorder does exactly as it sounds. It is an easy-to-use
free software program that lets you record any sound
you can hear on your PC. Recordings are saved as
MP3 files. Freecorder is a great way to get started
with capturing audio on your PC. File size is 910
KB.
Audiograbber
Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that
grabs digital audio from CDs. It copies the audio
digitally, not through the sound card, which enables
you to make perfect copies of the originals. It
can even perform a test to see that the copies really
are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically
normalize the music, delete silence from the start
and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety
or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofer's L3enc,
or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for
automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download
and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact
disc database. You can even record your vinyl LPs
or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make WAV
or MP3 files from them. There are a number of other
features also present in the software, making it
an attractive option. File size is 1.6 MB.
DVD Rip N’ Burn
With this program, you are able to copy DVD to AVI,
DIVX, MPEG, VCD, SVCD, and more. DVD Rip N’
Burn is a powerful DVD Ripper and DVD Burner with
multi-language support is an affordable way to backup
your DVD movie library. Backup your DVD's to your
hard drive or CD's. You can rip your library to
AVI compressed pick DivX or another codec to encode
to. You can rip to VCD for burning a VCD to play
in your home DVD player. You can also rip to SVCD
for burning to play in your home DVD player. File
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