retrocomputing

Alcohol 120%

Nero(n) burning ROM(e)

Later K3B.

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

Something command line based on Linux that produced mp3. I don't remember the name.

Whoa. Blast from the past.

Winamp. Still do.

i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.

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!

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.

I was on Linux and used grip

cdparanoia. Still do.

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).

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.

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

Not old enough to answer the question, but I used iTunes when I was a wee lad. Now I use Exact Audio Copy.

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.

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.

makemkv.

I use sound juicer. I used it this month.

I did use AudioGrabber at the turn of the century though.

Exact Audio Copy. Open source and guaranteed perfect copy. Most fast ones would have single bit errors.

CDex

Didn't Nero have this on-the-fly (as if flies could burn anything) copying or am I confusing DVD and audio here?