

It’s brilliant – but EAC can take a bit of setting up before you’ll get the best out of it. It does jitter correction, and also verifies the ripped audio against the original track to check consistency, as well as performing multiple reads to ensure an accurate duplication. Many audio CD ripping (opens in new tab) packages perform a little correction for jitter, which helps to reduce the impact of scratches or dust when reading the track, but you’ll need to listen to these tracks back with a careful ear – that correction can potentially leave imperfections in your track.Įxact Audio Copy (opens in new tab), our pick for best CD ripper does things a bit differently.

The aim isn’t ‘small and good enough’ any more – it’s about getting the absolute best quality copy possible. Ripping CDs is, believe it or not, a fine art, and it’s changed massively since the golden age of squeezing 128kbps MP3 files onto limited storage.
