This is a good tool for that:
http://www.mp3-converter.com/yamp.htm

I use version 1.3 which is a free version, email me at kgleeson@blue-rocket.com.au and I'll zip it and send it to you if you want (it's only 711kB zipped).

Cheers

Thanks guys, I've had a look at both of your suggestions. If it was as simple as just ripping straight to MP3 life would be very simple but the material also has to get some edits done to it, so I'm capturing as 16/44.1 wav for best possible quality to start with.

Anyway I had the solution right under my nose, Nero!

Yamp rips straight to wav but if you have Nero then you're away.

Cheers

Steinberg's Wavelab will do the job.
I love Vegas - but for most of my audio work, I use Wavelab - currently on version 4, although version 5 has come out, I think.

This program will extract each track to a separate file, numbering them track 1, 2, etc.
I haven't tried it lately, but thought that Vegas would do the same thing. Am I wrong?

When Wavelab has finished "importing", you are left with a cascade of Windows, one for each track imported. You may edit, apply FX, or simply close the file.

Caruso

hi Farss,

What version of Nero does that ? Looks like I have to update !

Allan

Vegas will sure do it and it does seem to do a better job than anything else I've tried. Some ime ago I had one CD that nothing could read cleanly and Vegas ate it up. My only issue with Vegas is it will not import a whole CD in one go as file / track, it insists you verify each files name before it save the track.
Normally this is only a minor annoyance but as the size of the CD sets I'm working on get larger it's an unnecessary pain.
Nero does the whole thing, and you can define how you want the files named, very nice stuff for software that came for free with the drive. Also Nero seems to do the job right, when its hits a track with high error rates it slows right down, I had one app that just goes whizz, max drive speed and damn the errors.
I've also used Plextools which again I have a lot of confidence in. It did bomb out on the problem CD I mentioned, better than just glassing over the errors though. I'm going to run some of these CDs through the Q1/Q2 tests, I'd been told the duplication house that made these CDs isn't that flash and from what I'm seeing that might be right.

I use a little program called Audiograbber (www.audiograbber.com-us.net). You can digitally rip by file or quickly select all files. You have the choice of several different formats to save the ripped file to...wav being one of those. It also comes with several different MP3 encoders. Lots of nice features. I paid like $69 for it but it is now freeware I believe.

Check it out.......I use it all the time.

5.9.9.17 does it. I've had that for a long time though so it's nothing new. But these features aren't obvious. Look under Recorder>Save Track.
It's also got a useful audio editor, nothing like Vegas or SF but good enough for many simple tasks. It really pays to dig into Nero. I've used it to author 100s of VCDs and SVCDs.
The only thing from Nero not worth a cracker are their mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 encoders, so I used to use TMPGEnc for VCD encoding and Nero for authoring, made some damn fine looking VCDs too.
Like I say, look into all the menu items, if you don't know for sure what it does you might find something useful. The documentation sure isn't much help.

If you insert a CD in your drive and load Vegas you can extract each track individually or select all the tracks. It has a check mark next to each track you want to rip. If you rip them all at once it makes separate files for all of them, naturally.

I use a freeware (actually, postcard-ware) program called "Exact Audio Copy." It is much better than any other program at making sure that it rips the audio from the CD without errors, hence the name. It has a lot of useful features.

EAC Web Site

John