Kat CD Ripper

A free application for grabbing the tracks from audio CDs Kat CD Ripper is an excellent all-in-one music device designed to extract Digital Audio tracks from an Audio CD into either WAV files or directly to compressed files like MP3, Riff or Ogg preserving the original quality of the sound.

Ripping CDs is done with great ease by both advanced users and beginners due to an attractive user friendly interface and an increased ripping speed which requires only a few minutes for a complete CD extraction.

You can make adjustments to the settings depending on the various quality features of the music and, very handy you can use Kat CD Ripper's player to listen to your favourite tracks.

This application supports CDDB and ID3 tagging which means you can automatically download CD track information and save them in the encoded file.

However, if your CD is not found in the local CDDB, you can select the CDDB Batch Query menu option and, by doing so, gather the CD information of the pending disc entries (i.e. the albums specified in the CDDB_Batch.txt file), saving the disc information into the local CDDB and/or CDPlayer.ini files, according to your existing settings.

Kat Ripper allows you to select and store configuration profiles maintaining the current profilename active at start up. Kat CD Ripper includes rich encoding options and a feature for normalizing the volume.

Kat CD Ripper also has the ability to extract a section of the CD having a window display for you to select the range of the track (the starting and the ending position).

Kat Ripper includes a recording sound files option. You can select time-limited recording or you can opt for the free length encoding (after pressing Record, you have to hit Stop to end recording). Furthermore, you can designate the output encoder.

Here are some key features of "Kat CD Ripper":
Digital CD Playback (default: off)
This option allows you to digitally play back a CD. Basically, it will read the CD and send the read data to the sound card. This way, you can play back CDs even when there is no direct connection between the CD-ROM and the sound card.

Recorded Tracks Output Directory:
This indicates where the extracted MPEG (or WAV files) are stored after ripping and you can change the output directory. Once selected, a directory selection window appears, select the appropriate output directory and press the OK button.

Character Replacement button:
Pops up a window in which you can select the character replacements you for those filename characters you are not allowed to use.

Split Track name to Artist/Track using X character:
When this option is active, all the characters before the "using X" character are used as the Artist name, everything after the splitting character is used as the track name. This option might come in handy if you have a collection CD (samples) which contains various artists.

Add Files to M3U Play-list.
When enabled, it will add the recorded files to the file Playlist.m3U. The location and the filename of the M3U playlist depends on the Playlist filename builder string.

Add Files to PLS Play-list
When enabled, it will add the recorded files to the file Playlist.pls. The location and the filename of the M3U playlist depends on the Playlist filename builder string.

Ripping Method (default value: Standard)
Standard: the standard Kat Ripper jitter correction algorithm. When the jitter correction is enabled, extra data (overlap) is read from the CD (between two adjacent reads). This overlap area is used detect the jitter errors by simply comparing the overlap area with the data gathered during the previous read.
Paranoia Overlap Only: Basically the same as the Standard Ripping Method, except that it uses the cdparanoia library.
Paranoia No Verify: Uses the full cdparanoia ripping method, except that the verification option is disabled.
Paranoia No Scratch Repair: Neither look for scratches nor perform scratch-tolerant synchronization during verification.
Paranoia Full: All the available cdparanoia options are enabled.