Audiograbber

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Sietse Fliege

Audiograbber is now freeware.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio
from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-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 Fraunhofers 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 LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber
and make wav's or MP3's of them.
There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply:
Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!

What's New in This Release:

Is now Freeware
Minor bug fixes
Development on Audiograbber will continue!
 
This is a great program that I've been a registered user of for years.
Just drop lame_enc.dll into the audiograbber folder and you're ready to
rock and roll.

There's a link to the lame dll on the download page.
 
It is indeed one of the better freeware audio grabbers. I used it a lot
before I found CD-EX.
In functionality and quality they are about the same. But for small trivial
resons I like cd-ex (http://www.cdex.n3.net/) better.

Just to point out an other option :-)

MightyKitten
 
It is indeed one of the better freeware audio grabbers. I used it a lot
before I found CD-EX.
In functionality and quality they are about the same. But for small trivial
resons I like cd-ex (http://www.cdex.n3.net/) better.

Just to point out an other option :-)
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CDex doesn't like to mix with InCD. (on my computer anyway Win98)
But I have to use InCD because the other machine(XP) I have to share.
Needless to say, I'll say it anyway, I don't play well with others. :)
 
on Fri 13 Feb 2004:




Why? Is it better than CDex or EAC? Eac is the only (free) ripper with
error correction and a detailed log of the possible problem spots
afaik. You have not convinced me, afaik AuGr just another ripper.

cHris
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EAC has its merits, but it takes way too long to rip. Give AG a try;
you may just like it.
 
on Fri 13 Feb 2004:


Why? Is it better than CDex or EAC? Eac is the only (free) ripper with
error correction and a detailed log of the possible problem spots
afaik. You have not convinced me, afaik AuGr just another ripper.

cHris
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Forget it, Chris.

Some people drive Porsches...some people drive Escorts. Even if you gave
both away, some people would complain that the suspension was too stiff on
the Porsche, thus their rationale for choosing the Escort.

People will still use CDex, AudioGrabber, etc. even though they can get the
best ripper out there for free (EAC).

EAC in secure mode is slower (and for good reason)... it's accurate. What's
the point of ripping an audio file if you end up with a less than perfect
copy?

The same reason some people would choose the Escort, I guess.
 
Henk said:
Thanks Sietse. Just downloaded and installed it.
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YW

B.T.W.: Apparently no Dutch version of this update, yet.
(Haven't checked the other localizations.)
 
cHris said:
Why? Is it better than CDex or EAC? Eac is the only (free) ripper with
error correction and a detailed log of the possible problem spots
afaik. You have not convinced me, afaik AuGr just another ripper.
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Sorry, my mistake. I tend to forget to add <quote> tags.
The quoted (admittedly a bit glowing) review was from:
<http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=software&id=17378&oc=2>

It did not represent my view, if only for the simple reason that I never
used AG or any of its competitors, for that matter.

Anyone interested in checking it out has more reason to do so, now that
it has turned uncrippled freeware.

I wouldn't much mind a heated debate, if informative and within limits.
;)
 
Sietse said:
YW

B.T.W.: Apparently no Dutch version of this update, yet.
(Haven't checked the other localizations.)
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Yes, there is. The Dutch version is included in the download....
Although there is no need for downloading this, there is also a
seperate Dutch language file for download at the site.

With kind regards,

--
Henk de Jong
The Netherlands
(e-mail address removed) (Remove _NO_SPAM_)
'Links to Freeware'
http://www.linkstofreeware.vze.com/
http://home.hccnet.nl/hmdejong/
 
dszady said:
CDex doesn't like to mix with InCD. (on my computer anyway Win98)
But I have to use InCD because the other machine(XP) I have to share.
Needless to say, I'll say it anyway, I don't play well with others. :)
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On myWin98SE / InCD 3.39.0 / CDEX 1.51 it is OK.
Note that AFAI remember I had to do a trick with copying some CDEX DLL
from previos version, because latest one caused a crash.
It was also mentioned somewhere in group...
 
Why? Is it better than CDex or EAC? Eac is the only (free) ripper with
error correction and a detailed log of the possible problem spots
afaik. You have not convinced me, afaik AuGr just another ripper.
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CDEX HAS the jitter correction...
 
nitzsche said:
EAC has its merits, but it takes way too long to rip. Give AG a try;
you may just like it.
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If EAC really is slow in your hands, then there can be two reasons
1. The cd('s) contain(s) errors which EAC tries to correct by reading
those parts of the cd('s) several times.
2. EAC has not been configured optimally for your cd player. It can
take some to figure out how to get this right.

Anyway I had a look at AG and don't like it at all. For a start, CDex
has a much better interface for the various encoders. In fact I don't
see anything in AG that's significantly better than in CDex or EAC.

And: EAC has error correction, CDex at least jitter correction (as
someone pointed out). For grabbing: use EAC, certainly if cd's are not
brand new, as encoder interface use CDex.

AG has been removed from my pc.

cHris

(curently grabbing with EAC)
 
EAC has its merits, but it takes way too long to rip.
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The reason that it takes longer to rip is that it actually tries to make sure
that the audio on the CD is ripped correctly.

Have fun with your potentially flawed rips.
Give AG a try; you may just like it.
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I tried it when it was shareware. It reminded me of AudioCatalyst and that's
not really a good thing in my book...
 
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