Music Software-ripping/burning, etc

[dannyro]

Running Win 8.1 on a new machine and while my computer came with cyberlink power dvd apparently its unable to burn my music in mp3 format..only wave and wma...really?

Anyhow, can someone please recommend a good software utility/suite that will work on win 8.1 that is either free or low cost that I can download? I need it to rip music from cd's to MP3 format, and be able to make CD's. anything else is a bonus such as a file converter.

thanks in advance!

Dan

 

[Soundmanred]

https://cdburnerxp.se/

 

[Fardringle]

Do you want to make CDs that can be played in a normal CD player, or are you just trying to make a data disc full of MP3 files (that can only be played in a computer or in players that actually recognize MP3 files)?

 

[dannyro]

sorry I should have said "rip CD's to mp3's" not burn.

 

[Ketchup]

I wonder if Cdex will work with 8? Been using it for years, and does fine with 7.

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=download

 

[lxskllr]

I don't have Win8, but you probably just have to install Lame to rip to mp3.

 

[William Gaatjes]

An old program which still works on w7-64 bit : Audiograbber V1.83. I hope it works under W8.1.
I use audiograbber to convert my cd's for my private mp3 collection.
http://www.audiograbber.org/

 

[smakme7757]

I used audiograbber in the past, but once I found DBPoweramp there was no going back. It's still being developed and has a good community. Able to rip high quality MP3, FLAC and a bunch of other formats.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Well worth the cost of a license. Every other ripper is worlds away from DBPoweramp.

 

[Carson Dyle]

The standard in secure ripping on Windows has always been EAC (Exact Audio Copy). It's not always easy for a beginner to set up, but there are some pretty good guides available on the internet. dbpoweramp is also good, but requires a license to work optimally. A new, very simple to use secure ripper from the developer of EAC is Easy Audio Copy. It also requires a license ($30, IIRC).

For burning CDs directly from files in a variety of encoded audio formats, a nice little program is Burrrn. Very handy, as it saves you the trouble of decoding audio files to WAV before burning an audio CD. (Although I've never tried it on Windows 8.)