I remember using Audiograbber at one point and was surprised to see it was still maintained.
Alcohol 120%
Nice, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time!
Nero(n) burning ROM(e)
Later K3B.
Same
Oh my god, how could I not have seen that. Now the icon makes sense too.
I had this kind of revelation like 2days ago when I woke up to go to the toilet, drink some water and sleep again. I don't even know exactly why this thought came to me, it was a big discovery. Wanted to make a showerthought or til post, but never made. What a cool fun fact.
(Also it's even more amazing the fact that someone made a post about cd rippers here (on an already obscure platform) and both you and I read this post. Wow.)
Edit: I recently found K3B as I'm in the process of moving to NixOS from win10. Seems like a good program.
Fooobar2000
Still have so many flac files from that.
Foob is the best audio player/tagger/ripper/converter ever
Every time I think back I picture Winamp. And sure enough I looked it up and Winamp could rip tracks and the UI is exactly what I remember
So: Winamp
CloneCD
You're going to hate me, I used iTunes for ripping back in the windows XP days. It was the first program I met that would recognize titles and get album art. I used iTunes to manage my collection as well.
I still do. My iPod classic is still going strong. I use it every day
I miss my iPod so much
I tried turning it into a hard drive and messed up the partitions
It still in a box at my parents house I should pay it a visit
There's a good mod for it now that replaces the hard drive with an adapter for two SD cards, and it would let you put a shit ton of storage on it. If you've got some spare cash and patience I'd definitely recommend it.
I don't know if I ever used iTunes to rip music but I did buy an iPod in 2005 so I used iTunes for that for a while. I ran into a bug with it though where it would fuck up the song database on my iPod and half the songs showed up on the iPod as unknown, everything was fine in iTunes. Found out pretty quickly after I discovered that that Winamp could handle loading music into an iPod and never had the problem again.
Same. Still have a bunch of ALAC files from taking my MacBook to the library.
Lol I'd hit the library on my way home in high school, get a bunch of CDs rip, return the next day and leave with a new batch... The antitheft sticker made the discs unbalanced, so I ended up RMAing my drive three times in 4 months, before the store just gave me my money back and canceled the sale.
At the time ripping library CDs was legal, so I got like 25 albums each week, 4 weeks a months and 4 months total, so about 400 albums, legally (but ethically? No) for free.
Nero and ImgBurn
Something command line based on Linux that produced mp3. I don't remember the name.
cdparanoia?
cdparanoia, then later abcde, which uses cdparanoia.
oh yes, abcde! i remember that!
(As for encoding, I used bladeenc originally, then lame, and now oggenc.)
Quite possible.
Whoa. Blast from the past.
My only objection is '00's
Infants
Winamp. Still do.
Same! Still kicks the llama's ass.
i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.
I didn't rip CDs but I did use StreamRipper, which was created by my officemate at the time, Jon Clegg (not the British comedian). To avoid getting sued into bankruptcy he eventually had to dissociate himself from the software after record industry lawyers sent him C&D letters - which I just now found online, holy crap! We were working together as contractors at Microsoft at the time. He was a very clever and cool guy. Hope you're out there still kicking ass, Jon!
I had a CD drive driver that would make windows explorer show CD audio discs as folders for quality levels, and then the tracks as files. Pick the ones you wanted, drag them somewhere, and get PCM wav files of the tracks. Encode them at your leisure. I miss that utility.
I was on Linux and used grip
cdparanoia. Still do.
Started with Music Match Jukebox that came on an install CD with my first ever MP3 player, then windows media player 10 came out. Eventually I learned about FLAC so I re-ripped everything with EAC
No idea. Whatever was the kde standard at the time I suppose.
I do remember feeding the online cd database though, back when it was still a group effort, before some asshole stole all of the data (same with the imdb on Usenet).
Since nobody else has said it yet - that's before my time. I'll ask my folks.
I remember using CDParanoia on Linux and some GUI for it (Sound Juicer?), CDex and Exact Audio Copy.
Imgburn. Those were good times.
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