dBpoweramp CD Ripper

   

CD Ripper is the corner stone of dBpoweramp Music Converter's suite of audio tools, designed to meet the needs of hobbyist, enthusiast or audio professional, one ripper catering to all needs:
 

 
  • Digitally store audio CDs without quality loss,
  • Secure  (Error Free) our extensive tests highlight CD ripper as the securest of the secure,
  • Fast do not waste your time, CD Ripper is as fast as possible,
  • Encoders practically every type of audio compression supported!
  • Meta Data track names, composers and album artwork,
  • PerfectMeta™ uses 4 meta data providers (AMG, GD3, Musicbrainz & freedb)
  • DSP Effects such as ReplayGain, Volume Normalize, or Graphic EQ  [Power Pack Option],
  • Multi-CPU Aware every last ounce of CPU horsepower is used [Reference Option],
  • Profiles store complete configuration settings with profiles  [Reference Option],
  • Advanced C2 pointers, drive offset removal, audio cache defeating, HTOA  [Power Pack / Reference Options],
  • All Windows from Windows 98 to XP and Vista, all supported.

 

 Ripper Technology  

Secure & Fast CD Ripping previously rippers were either secure & slow, or fast with no error correction... dBpoweramp throws away the rule book and achieves the impossible!, Secure & Fast, the key to this is AccurateRip.

The philosophy behind AccurateRip is simple - your rip is compared with rips from other people, generating a confidence report, if AccurateRip says your rip is error free, it is! Secure ripping is much more than re-ripping the same chunk over and over, by using C2 pointers correctly dBpoweramp is able to obtain previously un-achievable levels of error recovery. Illustrate invested huge resources redesigning how secure rippers function, see Technical Details & Extensive Testing.  In short, don't just rip your CDs, AccurateRip them!


 
 
Encoders no other offers this full range of audio encoders: mp3, m4a (AAC iPod & iTunes), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC) to name a few. Taking the popular mp3 format, we supply both Lame and Fraunhofer encoders in Reference, maximizing choice. With Multi-Encoder encode to two different formats at the same time!
  		 


Lame mp3 encoder settings		  
PerfectMeta™ uses 4 Internet meta data providers simultaneously, this allows any inevitable errors, such as spelling mistakes to be self corrected. In addition, there are 100's of internal rules to ensure that the metadata returned is consistent across discs & providers. PerfectMeta offers the best metadata solution obtainable today.

Many of our competitors simply use freedb for meta data, freedb is good in that it is free, but the scope and quality of meta data contained within can be lacking. PerfectMeta does not just use one premium (pay for use) meta provider, but two!  All Media Guide and GD3, in addition to MusicBrainz and freedb.

PerfectMeta also includes high resolution Album Art and extended fields such as Composer.


 Album Artwork in CD Ripper  

Enough talk about PerfectMeta, lets see it in operation, this CD is from Enya - The Celts:

As you can see there are lots of corrections taking place, red elements are elements which are wrong and have been corrected (in the final meta data on the left hand side). All four metadata providers had errors, but the final corrected result exactly matches the CD, truly remarkable, that is what PerfectMeta is all about.
 
    
DSP digital signal processing, effects which can be applied whilst ripping, many effects straight from pro-audio with internal 32 bit floating point processing, complete DSP effect listing. HDCD's can be decoded to 24 bit with DSP Effects.
   		 

DSP effect processing		  
   
Multi-CPU Aware rips and encodes using all CPU cores simultaneously, use your system to the max. [Reference Option]
  		 

Multi CPU Encoding		  
    
Profiles have one set of ripping parameters for lossless archiving, another profile for your iPod, one click switch between the two. [Reference Option]
    
Advanced all CD drives are sadly not equal: take C2 pointers (inform the ripper of errors), some drives support C2 well, many have no support, whilst others might implement C2 poorly. dBpoweramp is the first ripper to take drives with any C2 implementation any use it in a beneficial manor.

To rip securely, the drives internal offset must be removed, a drives ripping cache must be by-passed. CD Ripper has automatic determinations for these pre-requisites to secure ripping. Plextor drives can have their cache cleared with a special FUA command.

HTOA is an acronym for hidden track one audio, some CDs have a hidden first track. CD Ripper will inform of HTOA and allow this hidden track to be ripped.

Audio CDs can contain more than audio data, CD-Text, UPC and ISRC track identification codes, all are supported.   [many advanced options require Power Pack or Reference]		  
 
Windows Compatibility dBpoweramp works across a broad range of Windows versions from Windows 98 to Windows Vista (64 bit versions included). Linux is catered for with Wine. Fully Unicode compatible.