Good, minimalistic program to rip CD's to MP3

[wasteofo2]

So, I've got a very slow computer that as of now only has Windows Media Player on it. I'm looking for a very basic program that can rip my CD's to MP3 files that doesn't take up too much ram and doesn't have lotsa fancy extras. Things like Real Player and Musicmatch are just so full of crap that I can't even deal with them, and I really don't know what other good free programs are out there that can just rip CD's to MP3.

Thanks for any help,
Jacob

 

[klusener]

CDs that you bought in stores, right? cause otherwise it would mean piracy.. ;)

 

[bjon-07]

use winamp
http://www.winamp.com/

 

[hitssquad]

Windows Media Player rips and encodes to MP3 or WMA, your choice.

 

[dduardo]

For windows I suggest this:

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

But if your going for ultra minimal you can use this Linux/Unix command line program:

http://rip.sourceforge.net/

 

[brewnog]

I used to use a nice little application called CDex. Very small, pretty useful and you don't have to mess around with any big programs or anything.

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

It's open source too, I think.






Edit: And I just realized dduardo posted exactly the same thing...

 

[Soilwork]

Easy CD-DA extractor is also another small and good program to use.

 

[wasteofo2]

Windows Media Player rips and encodes to MP3 or WMA, your choice.

How do you get it to rip to MP3?

 

[The_Professional]

Wof2, unless you're not using Windows Media 10, the ripper should be built in the player. I think even version 9 has it

 

[chroot]

The de-facto standard ripper is EAC: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

The de-facto standard encoder is LAME: http://lame.sourceforge.net/

Neither requires a sophisticated computer.

- Warren

 

[wasteofo2]

Wof2, unless you're not using Windows Media 10, the ripper should be built in the player. I think even version 9 has it

And here I was, still using version 8, thinking that updating would be totally pointless...

 

[FredGarvin]

I second CDex. It's freeware and works quite well. Very easy to use.