Rrrrrrip!

[athelind]

quelonzia got Your Obedient Serpent an MP3 player for Yule. It's a Samsung, and will play MP3, WMA, ASF and Ogg Vorbis files!

Now, while I've got an unruly pile of assorted MP3s on my system, I'd like to start converting my CD collection to the format, so I can take my favorite albums along with me. Any recommendations for good CD conversion software?

My OS is Windows XP, and I don't trust DRM files, proprietary formats, or iTunes. Something that outputs to Ogg would be terrific, but MP3 is entirely acceptable.

Comments

[tephra]

I rip with WinAmp and then convert the wav files to mp3 or ogg with dbPowerAmp. I have an older freeware version but it works with XP just fine.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

How do you rip with WinAMP?

[tephra]

Open the media library, select your CD drive with a CD in it (it won't show the rip option without a CD in the drive), it will display the tracks. Clicking Rip will pop up a menu with the options to set your preferences, rip selected tracks, or rip them all.

I think the rip function has been there since version 5.0 at least. The free version only rips to wav, but if you buy winamp it can also convert it to mp3. For all I know there's an extension/plugin that will let it encode ogg as well but "off the shelf" it doesn't list ogg (even though it plays them).