CDWAVMP3 reads your disc's table of contents, rips every track losslessly, and encodes 320 kbps CBR MP3 with optional FLAC, AAC, OGG and WAV sidecars in a single pass. Offline by default. No telemetry. No cloud uploads.
No codecs to install, no plugins, no "premium upsell" wall mid-rip. Insert the disc, pick the tracks, hit convert. CDWAVMP3 handles the rest — including scratched discs that iTunes and Windows Media Player reject.
The app reads the table of contents in under a second. CD-text, ISRC, and pre-gap metadata are all preserved for accurate tagging downstream.
Tick the tracks you want. Choose MP3 (320 kbps CBR by default), and toggle FLAC, AAC, OGG, or WAV sidecars if you also want a lossless copy in the same pass.
Watch the terminal-style progress. A typical 74-minute disc finishes in under six minutes — with ID3 tags, album art, and sidecar files written automatically.
Independent lab measurement, March 2024: a 74-minute audio CD ripped and encoded to 320 kbps MP3 on identical hardware (M2 MacBook Air, 16 GB RAM, Apple USB-C SuperDrive). Three runs averaged.
MP3 is the default and the right answer for 90% of home users — small, universal, transparent at 320 kbps. Power users get parallel FLAC, AAC, OGG, or WAV files written in the same pass, so you don't re-rip the disc when a project demands lossless.
The default. Plays in every car stereo, every phone, every browser, every podcast platform. Joint-stereo encoding keeps file size under 9 MB per average track.
Bit-identical to the CD source. Optional — write a FLAC alongside the MP3 in the same pass for archival or for a later remix project.
Smaller than MP3 at the same perceptual quality, native to iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and AirPlay. 256 kbps AAC is a sensible companion for iPhone libraries.
Vorbis OGG for open-source workflows, broadcast-grade WAV (16-bit / 44.1 kHz) for DAWs and podcast editors. Both written simultaneously when toggled.
No trial countdown, no feature-locked MP3 exports, no "buy now to remove watermark" on audio you already own. Free is genuinely useful. Pro exists for people who rip more than 30 discs a year and want the automation hooks.
The same 320 kbps CBR MP3 engine used by 2.4 million people. No watermark, no expiry, no "premium" nag screens.
Everything in Free, plus the automation, scripting, and broadcast-grade metadata hooks that audio engineers at iHeartMedia regional clusters rely on.
