WildFire CD Ripper extracts sound files from Audio CDs in your CD-ROM drive and converts WAV files into several other (compressed) formats using an audio encoder. It supports encoders like: The Windows MP3 encoder (Fraunhofer MP3 encoder), APE lossless audio format, Ogg Vorbis encoder, Internal MP2 encoder, NTT VQF encoder, Internal MP3 encoder, Windows WMA8 encoder and FAAC encoder. WildFire CD Ripper converts WAV files on the hard drive to a compressed Audio File and Audio File to WAV files. It supports numerous audio file tag formats like ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, which can be automatically inserted as part of the ripping procedure. The program has express recording of numerous tracks and support for M3U and PLS play list files. WildFire CD Ripper can read/store album information from/to the cdplayer.ini file and from a local and/or remote CD Database (CDDB with track and artist information of just about every CD album). It has the option to Digital CD Playback (default: off) and the filename option string that determines how the output files will be saved to disk.
WildFire CD Ripper has conversion of external WAV files and will shut down the computer after the ripping and encoding process has been completed. It supports many CD-Drive from many manufactures and has complex jitter correction (based on the CD-paranoia ripping library). The program supports several languages and CD-Text (if
CD-drive supports it). It has normalization of audio signal and indicates track progress.