Accord CD Ripper Xtreme

With the arrival of a whole new bunch of advanced and sophisticated portable gadgets such as MP3 players, game consoles, tablet computers etc., the music-software industry has also undergone a massive boom in the last few years. As these devices often tend to support only a few particular audio file formats by default, the need of having a quality CD ripper and converter software has also increased tremendously amongst the tech savvy population all around the globe. Subsequently a large number of such software has also hit the market, but very few have been able to match the massive success enjoyed by Accord CD Ripper Xtreme 6.8.6 till now. This relatively new offering from the house Accmeware has indeed climbed up the ladder really fast in an over-crowded music software market.

Accord CD Ripper Xtreme 6.8.6 comes equipped with a pretty neat interface in grey and light blue which by itself gives you the hint how incredibly easy it is to use the product. The controls located towards the upper half of the main window are fairly easy to use and do not require a high level IQ to get used to. In addition to functioning as a CD ripper, Accord has also evolved as one of the best converter around in the market today. The software can convert CD music/video files into a large array of most commonly used audio file formats which include the likes of MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA etc. as well as plenty of popularly used video file-extensions such as 3GP, MP4, WMV and so on. As if that was not enough, the ripper can also retrieve album info from local as well as remote Compact Disc Database servers.

All thanks to its extensive set of features as well as a robust performance, Accord CD Ripper Xtreme 6.8.6 deserves no less than a score of four rating points on the scale of five.

Rip CD to MP3, FLAC, M4A, WAV, WMA, OGG, APE, MP2, VQF, AIFF, AIFC, AIF, 3GP, AAC, M4B, MP4, MPC, MP+, MPP, WV, AU, SND, RAW, GSM, VOX, PCM, ADPCM, G721, G723, FAP, PAF, SVX, 8SVX, IFF, NIST, IRCAM, SF, VOC, W64, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, PVF, XI, HTK, CAF, SDS, AVR, WAVEX, SD2, WVE, RF64 and user-customized formats etc.
It is the fastest CD Ripper available and fully optimized for SSE/Hyper thread technology and you can get extra speed boost if you have multi-core CPU.
It is capable of ripping multiple CDs simultaneously.
This CD Ripping utility can encode audio CDs to customized formats thru user-defined encoders.
Flexible output mode: rip audio CDs to divided files (one file per track) or to CD images (one file per disc with cuesheet or chapters).
Not only rip CD tracks, Accord CD Ripper is capable of ripping arbitrary sector range of an audio CD.
Secure cd ripping. Four build-in advanced disc error correction strategies: BURST, SYNC, SECURE and PARANOID. Two available actions on reading or synching an error during ripping: STOP and SILENCE.
Normalize audio volume to a given percentage.
This ripper is capable of retrieving album info from remote and local CDDB (Compact Disc Database) servers.
This CD Ripping software supports on-the-fly ripping.
Fully visualize the ripping process and real time display the spectrum of audio data.
It is fairly intuitive to use with its elegant interface, with just a few mouse clicks, it rips CD to MP3 format within a few minutes.
Automatically write metadata of the output audio files.
Build-in latest Lame MP3 encoder which is generally believed as the the best MP3 encoder in the world.
All kinds of CD and DVD drives are supported (including IDE, SCSI, USB etc.).
Full unicode support.
Multisession (CD-Extra) supported.
All events are logged for future diagnosis.
The last but not the least, this CD Ripper is Windows Vista compatible and works with Windows 7 (64-bit and 32-bit).