Ripping CDs
It’s easy enough to copy and paste into an Audacity project from your own digital audio file archives, but what about plucking songs off CDs? The audio tracks on a CD are written using a special format, the Red Book CD Audio standard, so you can’t just copy the songs off a CD but must use a special digital audio extractor, or CD ripper. Some CD-writing programs include rippers, such as Nero (Windows and Linux) and K3b (Linux). There are multitudes of standalone CD rippers for all platforms. For example, Windows users can try Windows Media Player, Audio Grabber, or the excellent Exact Audio Copy. Exact Audio Copy has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get it set up for your system, it is fast and accurate, and it handles damaged ...
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