When batch ripping you can tell it to fail any CD that has errors or didn't rip clean enough to be detected as secure. You can also have it save FLAC and mp3 and compute ReplayGain as it goes.

In this how-to, I show you how to use abcde A Better CD Encoder, a terminal application, to rip an audio CD and then convert the audio to an MP3 and FLAC along with full album and track details. I ...

Max is not limited to just ripping CDs though, it also handles conversion between lossy formats, which is how I originally heard of it — as a way to convert MP3 to Ogg Vorbis.

The New York Times covers how to rip a CD to one continuous track - like say, for an opera - in iTunes:The songs you want to join together must be a ...

I want to convert a CD to MP3 but I'd like to make one MP3 file for the entire CD. (It's an Audiobook that spans 26 CDs and I don't want to have to deal with 700-ish individual tracks.) I'm on a ...

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You can solve both the format and the copy-protection problems by burning your music files to a CD in standard CD player format, then ripping the disc back to Windows Media Player as MP3 files.