Alcohol 120%
Nice, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time!
Every time I think back I picture Winamp. And sure enough I looked it up and Winamp could rip tracks and the UI is exactly what I remember
So: Winamp
CloneCD
Nero and ImgBurn
Something command line based on Linux that produced mp3. I don’t remember the name.
cdparanoia?
cdparanoia, then later abcde, which uses cdparanoia.
oh yes, abcde! i remember that!
(As for encoding, I used bladeenc originally, then lame, and now oggenc.)
Quite possible.
Whoa. Blast from the past.
My only objection is '00’s
Infants
Winamp. Still do.
Same! Still kicks the llama’s ass.
I didn’t rip CDs but I did use StreamRipper, which was created by my officemate at the time, Jon Clegg (not the British comedian). To avoid getting sued into bankruptcy he eventually had to dissociate himself from the software after record industry lawyers sent him C&D letters - which I just now found online, holy crap! We were working together as contractors at Microsoft at the time. He was a very clever and cool guy. Hope you’re out there still kicking ass, Jon!
cdparanoia. Still do.
I had a CD drive driver that would make windows explorer show CD audio discs as folders for quality levels, and then the tracks as files. Pick the ones you wanted, drag them somewhere, and get PCM wav files of the tracks. Encode them at your leisure. I miss that utility.
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
Since nobody else has said it yet - that’s before my time. I’ll ask my folks.
I remember using CDParanoia on Linux and some GUI for it (Sound Juicer?), CDex and Exact Audio Copy.
Imgburn. Those were good times.
Audiograbber for a while, then used Foobar2000 since I always had it open anyway, and then finally EAC because its the best and I am still using it.
