Fast CD Ripper [Windows Mac - AuI ConverteR]

Read step-by-step guide how to use fast CD-audio ripping, sound quality and mechanical safety matters.

How to use fast CD ripper on Mac and Windows

To rapid rip CD audio on Windows or Mac OSX to mp3, FLAC, WAV and other lossless and lossy formats:

Put CD-audio into compact disk drive and start CD ripper software AuI ConverteR 48x44 *

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Push Open button; in the open file window, click to track(s) from CD-audio (file placed on CD) and push Open button.
In Settings > CD ripper / ISO > check "Fast CD ripper" switch.
In right part of the main window select output (target) file format (.mp3, .flac, .wav, .aiff, .alac, etc.), sample rate and bit depth.
In Directory output files select absolute path.
Assign album artwork *
Push Start button and wait for end of extraction. Check ripping errors.

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* AuI ConverteR 48x44 Free rip the first CD-audio track (in the software main window, see the "Source files" list).
For the second and next CD-audio tracks, ripped files contains at the middle 2 second of silence.
CD ripping of all tracks in the list is available in PROduce-RD and configurable Modula-R editions.
Free edition don't assign artwork to the ripped files. Artwork assigning is available in all-included PROduce-RD and configurable Modula-R editions).
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Sound quality

Optical disk errors

For most of compact discs, fast CD ripping work same safe mode: no reading errors. Other words, no difference in sound quality.

But for some of CDs, that are read unstable, safe mode is more preferable. Because in safe mode the software have deeper error detection and recovering ability than in fast ripping mode.

Lossless CD extracting

To set lossless mode of CD ripping:

in Settings (in right bottom of the main window push Settings button) > General > check "Don't make DSP..." switch;
in right part of the main window select output (target) format WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, sample rate 44100 Hz and bit depth 16 bit.

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Tips

If you want to reduce mechanical load to ripped compact disk, in Settings > CD ripper/ ISO > check both "Fast CD ripper..." and "Force 1x CD speed..." switches.