CDex is an old-fashioned tool (release 1.51 from September 2003!!) but surely still one of the best Audio CD Ripper. Completely free (Open Source), very powerful but quite easy to use, very stable. A must-have.

I ripped about almost all my CDs (> 900) with this tool.

CDex is a tool to do all sorts of things audio related. Mainly focused on ripping and converting, things like turning your home Compact Disc collection into an mp3 collection on your hard drive become extremely easy. With built in support for many encoders you wont find any shortage of options for your media files. Below is a more in-depth explination of CDex features.

CDex Feature List:

* Easy to use interface
* Media File Player
* Create PLS and M3U playlist files
* Advanced jitter correction
* Support for many file formats/audio encoders (WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE, etc)
* Support for ID3 V1 and V2 tags
* Support for normalization of audio files
* Support for transcoding of compressed audio files
* Support for CDDB
* Support for recording from the analog input line

CDex is one of the most downloaded application (all-time) at sourceforge (more than 24 million downloads!).