Alcohol 120%
Nice, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time!
Nero(n) burning ROM(e)
Later K3B.
Oh my god, how could I not have seen that. Now the icon makes sense too.
I had this kind of revelation like 2days ago when I woke up to go to the toilet, drink some water and sleep again. I don’t even know exactly why this thought came to me, it was a big discovery. Wanted to make a showerthought or til post, but never made. What a cool fun fact.
(Also it’s even more amazing the fact that someone made a post about cd rippers here (on an already obscure platform) and both you and I read this post. Wow.)
Edit: I recently found K3B as I’m in the process of moving to NixOS from win10. Seems like a good program.
Same
Fooobar2000
Still have so many flac files from that.
Foob is the best audio player/tagger/ripper/converter ever
Didn’t Nero have this on-the-fly (as if flies could burn anything) copying or am I confusing DVD and audio here?
Yes, I remember this. But if the dvd wasn’t closed properly it would have read issues on other computers.
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
Something about a Sheep? I don’t remember its name. Just the logo was supposed to be Dolly the Sheep (the one that was cloned).
Elby CloneCD… And how am I just realizing that’s why they used a sheep… Doh
Did they change the name eventually or was their some kind of fork of CloneCD? Because I do remember CloneCD but I also remember using another piece of software later on that was literally exactly the same with just 1 or 2 more features, but had a totally different name and used the same logo but in a different color. Could have been the DVD version, maybe… It’s been so long. 🤔
Elby (still) have a few products, with similar names and logos. I still use Virtual Clone drive sometimes to mount BIN/CUE.
Maybe CloneDVD?
Ah. I think I was thinking of the Elby name.
CloneCD
You’re going to hate me, I used iTunes for ripping back in the windows XP days. It was the first program I met that would recognize titles and get album art. I used iTunes to manage my collection as well.
I still do. My iPod classic is still going strong. I use it every day
I miss my iPod so much
I tried turning it into a hard drive and messed up the partitions
It still in a box at my parents house I should pay it a visit
There’s a good mod for it now that replaces the hard drive with an adapter for two SD cards, and it would let you put a shit ton of storage on it. If you’ve got some spare cash and patience I’d definitely recommend it.
I don’t know if I ever used iTunes to rip music but I did buy an iPod in 2005 so I used iTunes for that for a while. I ran into a bug with it though where it would fuck up the song database on my iPod and half the songs showed up on the iPod as unknown, everything was fine in iTunes. Found out pretty quickly after I discovered that that Winamp could handle loading music into an iPod and never had the problem again.
Same. Still have a bunch of ALAC files from taking my MacBook to the library.
Lol I’d hit the library on my way home in high school, get a bunch of CDs rip, return the next day and leave with a new batch… The antitheft sticker made the discs unbalanced, so I ended up RMAing my drive three times in 4 months, before the store just gave me my money back and canceled the sale.
At the time ripping library CDs was legal, so I got like 25 albums each week, 4 weeks a months and 4 months total, so about 400 albums, legally (but ethically? No) for free.
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.
Winamp. Still do.
Same! Still kicks the llama’s ass.
Winamp
Whoa. Blast from the past.
My only objection is '00’s
Infants
Audiograbber with the LAME codec. Actually still have it on my computer. I still buy the random CD now and again and rip it to my media server, and then never touch it again.
i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.
