I've recently been ripping my CD's to 320kbps MP3 files and the most suggested and popular software for this is NCH's Express Rip. All sources said it was free for non-commercial use, so I went to NCH's website, they also said it was free for personal use. Express Rip lets you rip, convert, encode, and decode music and other audio tracks directly to files on your hardrive. Cd ripper, cd rip software, rip cd, cd rip, ripping software, cd to mp3, cd ripper software, free cd ripper, cd rippers.

CD Ripping Express Rip is a program for Windows that lets you extract digital audio tracks directly from audio CDs to either Wave (wav) or MPEG Layer-3 (mp3) files on your harddrive. By using direct digital extraction pure audio quality is maintained and the process is very fast. Features: - Converts audio CD tracks to wav or mp3 files.

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