Riptastic! supports ripping the hidden Track 0 found on some CDs.
Normally this track can only be heard on audio CD players by starting at the beginning of Track 1 and then rewinding.
Note:
Not all computer CD-ROM drives are capable of reading Track 0.
You may experience difficulty trying to rip Track 0.
If you are able to successfully rip Track 0, please contact support so that we may update the list of CD-ROM drives that can read Track 0.
Using Riptastic! you can automatically download disc and track information from the Internet.
Artist, disc title, genre, recording date, and track names are available from FreeDB servers world wide.
You can also manually edit the disc information and track names.
See Internet Options for more information.
Riptastic! can write ID3 tags into audio files it creates.
ID3 tags allow an audio file to contain extra information such as the name of the disc, the name of the artist, the name of the song, etc.,
and are useful for sharing audio files with other software and portable player devices that understand ID3 tags.
Riptastic! supports creation of all versions of ID3 tags up to ID3v2.3.
Note:
ID3 tags are only allowed in MP3 and AIFF files.
See ID3 Options, MP3 Encoder, and AIFF Encoder for more information.
Batch Ripping Mode enables you to quickly and easily rip multiple CDs with a minimum of user interaction.
Using this ripping mode, all you have to do is insert CDs to rip...
Riptastic! handles the rest for you automatically!
CD ripping (also referred to as Capturing) consists conceptually of two stages—reading the CD, then encoding the audio data (into, say, MP3 format).
With this feature, Riptastic! will use spare background CPU time to encode simultaneously while reading the CD.
This can result in significant time savings, especially if you have a really fast CPU.
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Riptastic! allows you to customize the directory structure used for ripping files.
You can name the directories and files anything you like, including the use of data downloaded from the internet such as artist, disc title, genre, recording date, and track title.
See Files Options for more information.
Riptastic! comes complete with these fully configurable audio encoders:
Additionally, this list can be easily expanded by use of Riptastic!'s Extensible Plug-In Architecture (below).
Multithreading and asynchronous I/O extracts data at the highest possible speed.
This makes Riptastic! extremely fast, but that's not the most important reason for going to the trouble.
Processing the data as fast as the drive can read it ensures that the drive never has to pause during extraction.
Because of the inexactness of the CD format, not all drives are capable of restarting an audio read properly (e.g. at the exact same place where it left off) after pausing.
And if your software doesn't process data fast enough, the drive will pause until the software can catch up.
Some software packages offer what's commonly known as jitter correction to work around this issue.
This works by continually backing up and re-reading to make sure the CD drive hasn't skipped anything.
You can imagine how all this redundant pausing, backing up, and re-reading slows down the process!
Riptastic! avoids this problem altogether by always extracting digital data at the highest speed.
For more information about CD reading, please see Capturing.
Riptastic! sports the following advanced audio processing features:
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Riptastic! can easily be extended to create and encode new file types through the use of plug-in DLLs.
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