Audio CD to digital

[igorek]

Is there a freeware to copy from an Audio CD to some form of digital (WAV ?), so it can then be turned into MP3 ?

[olyteddy]

CDEx or EAC, both of which can output MP3 or WAV.

[igorek]

None of them detects an Audio CD in the drive. I am using Windows XP.

[DereX888]

None of them detects an Audio CD in the drive. I am using Windows XP.

then navigate to the drive with CD in it or select it :O

[igorek]

Menu options with "Extract CD track" are all greyed out in CDex. I already installed ASPI, but it did not help (and I am still seeing message "Native SCSI Library is not supported... You have to install ASPI ..." when CDex is coming up). I have a CD/DVD reader.

[guns1inger]

Can you play the CD with WMP ?

[Midzuki]

Is there a freeware to copy from an Audio CD to some form of digital (WAV ?), so it can then be turned into MP3 ?

Newbie way: Winamp

Nerd way: cdrtools

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[igorek]

I downloaded Winamp, it can play the Audio CD (just like WMP did it before), but there is no option to convert it to a file, neither WAV nor MP3.

[GideonK]

I use AudioGrabber v1.83

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/download.html

Click on the MP3 icon and adjust the settings to your liking.

[igorek]

AudioGrabber lets me record to a WAV or MP3, file but when either of them played back, they produce only a weird wistle, and then - silence for the rest of the recording.
Gosh, why is it THAT difficult to get a file from an AudioCD ?

[guns1inger]

It's not a copy protected CD is it ?

[igorek]

I don't think so, it is very old, but how I would know for sure ?

[guns1inger]

They have a warning on the case.

[Midzuki]

igorek wrote:

I downloaded Winamp, it can play the Audio CD (just like WMP did it before), but there is no option to convert it to a file, neither WAV nor MP3.

{ Winamp 5.34 }

Right-click the selected track, choose "Send to",
choose "Format converter".

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[igorek]

Thanks, Midzuki's advice for Winamp worked fine. The only problem - it writes down only the first track, and stops. Is there any way to move to the next one ?