i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.
CloneCD
Since nobody else has said it yet - that’s before my time. I’ll ask my folks.
Fooobar2000
Still have so many flac files from that.
Foob is the best audio player/tagger/ripper/converter ever
Windows Media Player did the job for me.
Same. I was a kid. I would get CDs from the library and fill my crappy MP3 player from the files extracted from WMP. My CD collection was mostly burned library CDs. Before my parents got a PC that could burn, I would go to the neighbor’s house and get their dad to do it for me. Simpler times.
Same until I got an MP3 player and it didn’t know what the fuck a .wma file was. Had to re-rip them to a proper format.
Something about a Sheep? I don’t remember its name. Just the logo was supposed to be Dolly the Sheep (the one that was cloned).
Elby CloneCD… And how am I just realizing that’s why they used a sheep… Doh
Did they change the name eventually or was their some kind of fork of CloneCD? Because I do remember CloneCD but I also remember using another piece of software later on that was literally exactly the same with just 1 or 2 more features, but had a totally different name and used the same logo but in a different color. Could have been the DVD version, maybe… It’s been so long. 🤔
Elby (still) have a few products, with similar names and logos. I still use Virtual Clone drive sometimes to mount BIN/CUE.
Maybe CloneDVD?
Ah. I think I was thinking of the Elby name.
Alcohol 120%
Nice, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time!
Tracker or cdparanoia. IIRC cdparanoia was more reliable.
Nero(n) burning ROM(e)
Later K3B.
Same
Oh my god, how could I not have seen that. Now the icon makes sense too.
I had this kind of revelation like 2days ago when I woke up to go to the toilet, drink some water and sleep again. I don’t even know exactly why this thought came to me, it was a big discovery. Wanted to make a showerthought or til post, but never made. What a cool fun fact.
(Also it’s even more amazing the fact that someone made a post about cd rippers here (on an already obscure platform) and both you and I read this post. Wow.)
Edit: I recently found K3B as I’m in the process of moving to NixOS from win10. Seems like a good program.
Didn’t Nero have this on-the-fly (as if flies could burn anything) copying or am I confusing DVD and audio here?
Yes, I remember this. But if the dvd wasn’t closed properly it would have read issues on other computers.
Audiograbber with the LAME codec. Actually still have it on my computer. I still buy the random CD now and again and rip it to my media server, and then never touch it again.
KAudio…something. It was a KDE tool that could rip and encode in parallel.
Whoa. Blast from the past.
My only objection is '00’s
Infants
Nero and ImgBurn
No idea. Whatever was the kde standard at the time I suppose.
I do remember feeding the online cd database though, back when it was still a group effort, before some asshole stole all of the data (same with the imdb on Usenet).
