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sPeziFisH

Jan 9 2004, 08:55

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December 25 : Audiograbber will be freeware.
On February 9, 2004 Audiograbber will be released as freeware. When I sold my other cd-ripper AudioCatalyst to Xing I signed a contract which has not allowed me to release Audiograbber as freeware but on February 9, 2004 that contract expires. It has been a great journey and experience making Audiograbber and it has paid off well so now I feel it is time to give something back to the "Internet and MP3 community" so freeware it will be. I am also fed up with all the administrative work which I now hope it will be less of. I will continue developing Audiograbber and with less administrative work I can hopefully spend more time making new versions.

Although EAC is still the best out there (not only because of Secure Mode) Audiograbber has always been a good alternative, but was regrettably available only as shareware (if you are no 'bad boy').
There were days where a secure mode was on the ToDo-list, don't know what's up with it (you have to look for it if you're interested in).
Do you remember the days damn poor Audiocatalyst grabbed your stuff to disk, hehe? Okay, it was well-known and still at the front at its time.
I guess this change will put audiograbber a good step forward.

Hope, search doesn't fool me as I haven't seen any information about that here @ HA.

Have a nice weekend,

spezifish

Mark7

Jan 9 2004, 09:02

I still have nightmares about audiocatalyst... though audiograbber was really good at the time. I ripped to 192kbps cbr joint stereo with it... not bad

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Of course i use EAC + musepack now (or lame aps for mp3)

JeanLuc

Jan 9 2004, 09:04

QUOTE(sPeziFisH @ Jan 9 2004, 02:55 PM)

Do you remember the days damn poor Audiocatalyst grabbed your stuff to disk, hehe? Okay, it was well-known and still at the front at its time.

Hmm ... the "new" Xing @ Full-Scale VBR Stereo wasn't that bad from terms of sound quality IMO *ducksandwaitsfortheban*

JoshuaL

Jan 10 2004, 02:08

I actually paid for AudioGrabber a few years back, and used it to rip my entire collection to 128. Having learned of the improvements of -aps from this fine site I'm now re-ripping everything using EAC + Lame. If AudioGrabber had a secure mode I might still be using it ... having two copies switch from one drive to another was a cool feature that extended my away-from-the-computer time.

/\/ephaestous

Jan 10 2004, 02:42

Audiograbber was way cool in 98-99 with my computer's CD-ROM that couldn't do DAE. It had an option to record the analog output @ 1X.

Everybody will say that's evil now. but well, I couldn't afford a Plextor or anything SCSI.

JeanLuc

Jan 10 2004, 02:57

QUOTE(/\/ephaestous @ Jan 10 2004, 08:42 AM)

Audiograbber was way cool in 98-99 with my computer's CD-ROM that couldn't do DAE. It had an option to record the analog output @ 1X.

Yeah, I remember ... wasn't that mode called MSCDEX like the old DOS CD driver ?

AstralStorm

Jan 10 2004, 03:19

No, it was called Analog mode.
MSCDEX one was reading the CD using mscdex bit access routines,
for drives which drivers allowed it on audio and not through ATAPI interface.

Tomb

Jan 10 2004, 03:45

QUOTE(sPeziFisH @ Jan 9 2004, 02:55 PM)

QUOTE(from [URL=http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/)

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/[/URL]]
December 25 : Audiograbber will be freeware.
On February 9, 2004 Audiograbber will be released as freeware. When I sold my other cd-ripper AudioCatalyst to Xing I signed a contract which has not allowed me to release Audiograbber as freeware but on February 9, 2004 that contract expires. It has been a great journey and experience making Audiograbber and it has paid off well so now I feel it is time to give something back to the "Internet and MP3 community" so freeware it will be. I am also fed up with all the administrative work which I now hope it will be less of. I will continue developing Audiograbber and with less administrative work I can hopefully spend more time making new versions.

There were days where a secure mode was on the ToDo-list, don't know what's up with it (you have to look for it if you're interested in).

According the Audiograbbers forum moderator there is a version of Audiograbber with the secure mode and he did not know why it was not released yet. I presume the developer (Jackie) is still working on it.

DonP

Jan 10 2004, 08:15

I have also found it handy for analog recording as you can pre-enter the track list and it is nice about automatically pausing and restarting when you flip the record.

snek_one

Jan 11 2004, 07:34

hey that actually sounds really good!

i need some programs to record from vinyl, and if it auto finds the tracks etc that would be a god-send! (now where can i buy a little monkey to flip the vinyl when it finnishes?!)

DonP

Jan 11 2004, 09:08

It (audiograbber) still isn't PERFECT at track detection if you music is prone to trailing off quietly. As I said it does let you pre-enter the track list -> with track length<-
so then it doesn't begin looking for the track gap until a few seconds before the track is supposed to end.

Watch out for the trained monkeys. They are only a little more careful with your favorite vinyl than your kids are

bubka

Jan 11 2004, 11:37

the "rip to ram" function was always nice, i wish EAC had it

tycho

Jan 17 2004, 11:29

Audiograbber is a high quality piece of software and has a lot of nice features. If your CDs are in good shape (no HA member has scrathed CDs...), it's a good alternative - and it's fast like h..

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i need some programs to record from vinyl, and if it auto finds the tracks etc that would be a god-send!

I did a few vinyl convertions a while ago. CDWave was God sent for that. It can automatically split - but manually, you can do it faster and simpler than with any other software. Its shareware, but no limits or nags. If you gonna use it a lot, support this guy.

Mike Giacomelli

Jan 17 2004, 11:59

Theres a lot of people out there who still swear by it for ripping CDs. I've never understood why since its a poor third to EAC and CDex, and previously not free.

AtaqueEG

Jan 17 2004, 12:41

QUOTE(Mike Giacomelli @ Jan 17 2004, 11:59 AM)

Theres a lot of people out there who still swear by it for ripping CDs. I've never understood why since its a poor third to EAC and CDex,

I was easy to use, easy to configure and reliable for the most part.
I used it a lot in the early days of DAE.
My sister loved it (she now loves EAC because she scratches her CDs a lot)

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and previously not free.

Nevertheless, it was very easy to , hmm, "obtain"

Tomb

Feb 9 2004, 06:28

Audiograbber is now freeware as of this morning.

sPeziFisH

Feb 9 2004, 08:08

Yo, that's true - time to beam one of 'that' kind of folder into recycle bin

BTW maybe it was just a dust catcher, the 'newest' release is still some month old and EAC still rocks a bit more. No no, that's nothing about religion

edit: oh well, I'm really dull

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