Audiograbber, freeware CD ripper, mp3 encoder and audio recorder for Windows

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Guide for newbie's

Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!

Info in German
www.audiograbber.de
Audiograbber.nl (Dutch)
Audiograbber.com.fr (French)
Brazilian Audiograbber site

Significant advantages:
A nice and easy understandable user interface.
A good helpfile with descriptions of all functions and settings.
The program is very flexible and configurable and still easy to understand.
It works with almost all CD-ROM drives that can read digital audio.

Another great thing with this software is that it does not put a single file in your windows directories! No DLL's, OCX's, device drivers, spyware, adware or whatever else that messes up the computer. Not a single entry in the registry or win.ini. If you delete the Audiograbber directory it's all gone, that's it!

Audiograbber used to be shareware but is from February 9, 2004 released as freeware! Get it from the download page.

January 25 : Audiograbber got a new home.
Our website is back online! Because our previous webhoster quit its service, the international Audiograbber website at www.audiograbber.com-us.net went offline, too. We since decided to move to our very own domain at www.audiograbber.org, to offer a permanent home for Audiograbber and all the ones who still like using it!

February 9 : Audiograbber is now freeware.
See statment below and just get it from the download page.
The new version is named 1.83 and it is almost the same as 1.82. There are no new functions, just some minor bugfixes and smaller improvements. Normally this would only justify a build increase (from 1.82 build 2 to 1.82 build 3) but since it is now freeware I feel it is best to give it its own version number.
Development will continue and it should not take that long before we see a version 1.84 with support for some new internal encoders. I am working with Spoon from dBPowerAMP with that. (Basically, he is telling me how to support the internal encoders he have for his program dBPowerAMP).

December 25 : Audiograbber will be freeware.
On February 9, 2004 Audiograbber will be released as freeware. When I sold my other cd-ripper AudioCatalyst to Xing I signed a contract which has not allowed me to release Audiograbber as freeware but on February 9, 2004 that contract expires. It has been a great journey and experience making Audiograbber and it has paid off well so now I feel it is time to give something back to the "Internet and MP3 community" so freeware it will be. I am also fed up with all the administrative work which I now hope it will be less of. I will continue developing Audiograbber and with less administrative work I can hopefully spend more time making new versions.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you guys out there!

March 4: Audiograbber 1.82 build 2 released.
This build 2 supports USB drives, has support for Windows digital playback and works with more drives when it comes to CDG (karaoke) ripping. Read more about it on the forum:
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/boards/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002996.html

February 11: Audiograbber 1.82 now released.
Finally! New in this version is:

Better tracklist detection.

Ripping of CDG tracks (karaoke tracks).

Shipped with the latest official OGG Vorbis dll (and full OGG Vorbis support).

Other minor but useful features.
Registered users can upgrade without cost on
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/secure/fullversion.html
The free version is available at http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/download.html
Comments about this version can be viewed and written on the Forum.

February 9: SPAM e-mail named "Audiograbber Newsletter!"?
I am not involved! Check this page on the forum to learn more about this obnoxious e-mail:
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/boards/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002934.html

October 12: Buy Audiograbber on a cd.
Element5 who sells Audiograbber has setup a new service so now it is possible to get a cd in the mail with Audiograbber. The cd is $9.95 extra (in addition to the regular $20 price for Audiograbber). Read all about it on:
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/buy.html

October 6: Audiograbber 1.82 beta 1 released!
This new version has a fix to deal with cd's with corrupted tracklists and it can rip karaoke tracks from CDG cd's. Read all about it at the forum:
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/boards/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002692.html
Get it from http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/beta/betadownload.html
(The beta is only available for registered users).

August 25: I (Jackie) will be on CNET radio show.
Yesterday I got an invitation to be interviewed on CNET's radio show so Monday 27th you can listen to me talking about Audiograbber on Internet radio! Here's CNET's plug for their program:
"CNET Radio's Midday Show, The Alex Bennett Program offers a daily roster of tech news and commentary with Alex's unique perspective and spin, as well as conversations with newsmakers and tech savvy celebrities."
The show is Monday 9:00am to Noon PST, 910AM in San Francisco and online at http://www.cnetradio.com. I will be on around 11.20am Pacific time, that is the same as 20.20 CET (Central European Time) and 19.20 GMT. So point your browser to the above URL and hear what I have to say! (I'm already a bit nervous, English is not my mother tongue but I will do my best).
Update:The interview went fine and I have uploaded it in ogg Vorbis format here: http://www.audiograbber.net/cnetinterview.ogg. You can go here to get an ogg Vorbis plugin for Winamp in case you can't play ogg files: http://www.vorbis.com