Fast CD Ripper - powerful and easy cd ripper application for converting your audio CD collection to variety of most popular compressed audio formats (WMA 9, OGG and MP3 are supported) with ID3 Tag v2 support and to uncompressed audio (WAV PCM format ).

Fast CD Ripper alows you to rip:

- CD to WMA 9
- CD to MP3
- CD to OGG Vorbis
- CD to WAV PCM
- CD to APE (Monkey's Audio)

Fast CD Ripper - Main Features:

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- Handy User's Interface
Easy-to-use interface allows you to rip tracks of your Audio CD just by one click.

- High Quality CD Ripping
You can fastly and naturally transcode Audio CD tracks directly to variety of audio formats, using jitter correction to compensate reading errors.

- Best Audio Codecs Support
Fast CD Ripper uses most modern and fast audio codecs, it internally supports WMA 9 format: WMA 9 with constant bitrate, quality based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate, two-pass bitrate based WMA 9 format with variable bitrate and WMA 9 Lossless format, which allows you to store your digital audio with best qualty. For MP3 encoding it uses fast LAME encoder 3.93, for OGG encoding it uses latest Vorbis SDK updates, for APE encoding it uses latest Monkey's Audio SDK.

- ID3 Tag v2 Support
Program supports ID3 Tag v2, you can easily convert tracks of your CDs to variety of compressed audio formats with all most useful tag fields .

- CDDB Support
You can download information about Audio CD disc such as Album's and Artist's name, track's names, etc. from Internet database just by clicking on "Get CDDB info..." toolbar button.

- Winamp playlists support
Application allows you to create (or append to) Winamp playlists.

- Filename generation using ID3 Tag
You can use this feature to generate filename and folder's structure using ID3 Tag information such as artist's and album's name, track's title, genre and track's number.

- Windows XP compatibility
If you use new Windows XP system all conrols in application have XP-style look and feel.

- Eligible Price

Fast CD Ripper - System Requirements:

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- Pentium 200 MHz or better
- CD-ROM drive
- 16M or more for Windows 98/ME
- 32M or more for Windows NT4/2000
- Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP
- About 6Mb free hard drive space

Fast CD Ripper - FAQs:

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1. What are ID3 Tags?
ID3 tags are information about an MP3 file, such as the Artist, Album, Title, Year, Track, Genre, Comments, Lyrics and even custom comments. ID3 tags are optional information that can be added when the audio file is created (encoded).
The following Tag fields are available for you to track important music information. Each music file can contain info in every available field.

Title - The name of the song.
Artist - The name of the Artist who performed the song.
Album - The name of the CD (not always the name of the artist).
Genre - The style of music this song is i.e...Rock, Rap, Classical etc.
Year- Year of publication of the music.
Comments - Type or cut and paste in any notes you'd like to add.

2. What's an ASPI manager, and how do I know if I have one?
ASPI is an interface created by Adaptec, and is used by Fast CD Riper to access the CD-ROM hardware. Windows 95 comes with the ASPI manager pre-installed, while NT does not.
To tell if you have an ASPI manager installed, look for a file called WNASPI32.DLL in your Windows system directory (c:\windows\system or c:\winnt\system32 are common locations). For NT, it is usually supplied by the manufacturer of your SCSI adapter or devices -- unfortunately, not usually supplied for IDE devices under NT.
Some ATAPI CD-R and CD-RW devices do however supply the ASPI manager, specifically so that it can interface with the CD-R and CD-RW burning software.

3. I can't seem to rip any tracks at all.
Try to change the jitter correction in the General Settings. If that doesn't work, in the General Settings dialog, try using the "Autodetect" read method. If it still doesn't work, try the others individually. If none of this helps, send an email to support@service-1.org with the make and model of your CD rom, operating system Win95/98/NT, 2000), whether it's a SCSI, ATAPI, CD-R, etc. and a description of the problem. It's also possible that your drive simply doesn't support digital audio extraction -- while most SCSI drives support digital audio extraction, not all IDE drives do.

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