I remember using Audiograbber at one point and was surprised to see it was still maintained.

  • eleitl@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

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

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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!

  • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Every time I think back I picture Winamp in head. And sure enough I looked it up and Winamp could rip tracks and the UI is exactly what I remember

    So: Winamp

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    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.

      • Rekonok@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

        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

        • Ajzak@lemm.ee
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          6 days ago

          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.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Same. Still have a bunch of ALAC files from taking my MacBook to the library.

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

        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.

    • evidences@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      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.