dBpoweramp. Always worked really well but the UI was weird. It’s bizarre, I have a bunch of CDs I need to rip and was thinking about the topic recently.
cdparanoia. Still do.
Since nobody else has said it yet - that’s before my time. I’ll ask my folks.
Nero(n) burning ROM(e)
Later K3B.
Oh my god, how could I not have seen that. Now the icon makes sense too.
i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.
Started with Music Match Jukebox that came on an install CD with my first ever MP3 player, then windows media player 10 came out. Eventually I learned about FLAC so I re-ripped everything with EAC
No idea. Whatever was the kde standard at the time I suppose.
I do remember feeding the online cd database though, back when it was still a group effort, before some asshole stole all of the data (same with the imdb on Usenet).
Fooobar2000
Still have so many flac files from that.
I was on Linux and used grip
Exact Audio Copy. Open source and guaranteed perfect copy. Most fast ones would have single bit errors.
Same. EAC + LAME using config guides from NMP3s at the SomethingAwful forums, and then later Oink.
Not old enough to answer the question, but I used iTunes when I was a wee lad. Now I use Exact Audio Copy.
Something about a Sheep? I don’t remember its name. Just the logo was supposed to be Dolly the Sheep (the one that was cloned).
Elby CloneCD… And how am I just realizing that’s why they used a sheep… Doh
Did they change the name eventually or was their some kind of fork of CloneCD? Because I do remember CloneCD but I also remember using another piece of software later on that was literally exactly the same with just 1 or 2 more features, but had a totally different name and used the same logo but in a different color. Could have been the DVD version, maybe… It’s been so long. 🤔
Elby (still) have a few products, with similar names and logos. I still use Virtual Clone drive sometimes to mount BIN/CUE.
Maybe CloneDVD?
Ah. I think I was thinking of the Elby name.
CDex
That’s the one. It would pull data from online so you wouldn’t have to enter all the track names.
I couldn’t remember but knew someone would post the name.
never used it to rip discs, but it was the very first windows program i used for recording analog inputs to convert tapes and records to digital.
Didn’t Nero have this on-the-fly (as if flies could burn anything) copying or am I confusing DVD and audio here?
You’re going to hate me, I used iTunes for ripping back in the windows XP days. It was the first program I met that would recognize titles and get album art. I used iTunes to manage my collection as well.
I don’t know if I ever used iTunes to rip music but I did buy an iPod in 2005 so I used iTunes for that for a while. I ran into a bug with it though where it would fuck up the song database on my iPod and half the songs showed up on the iPod as unknown, everything was fine in iTunes. Found out pretty quickly after I discovered that that Winamp could handle loading music into an iPod and never had the problem again.
Same. Still have a bunch of ALAC files from taking my MacBook to the library.
