Burn audio CDs the easy way! Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.

Author: Matus Vojtek
License: Freeware

CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder. Many encoders are supported, to name a few:

• Lame MP3 encoder
• Internal MP2 encoder
• APE lossles audio format
• Ogg Vorbis encoder
• The Windows MP3 encoder (Fraunhofer MP3 encoder)
• NTT VQF encoder
• FAAC encoder
• Windows WMA8 encoder

In addition, WAV files on the hard drive can be converted to a Compressed Audio File (and visa versa). CDex also supports many audio file tag formats like the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, which can be automatically inserted as part of the ripping process.

Author: Albert L. Faber
License: GPL, Open Source

Dolby Digital AC3 plugin for Nero Burning ROM. May require Nero Wav Plugin replacement to support more than 2 audio channels. Based on FFMPEG ac3enc and Azid Developer Kit v1.8

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Easy CD-DA Extractor is a music converter that copies music CDs, converts music files from one format to another, and burns music CDs, MP3 CDs, WMA CDs, and regular Data CDs.

Supports all popular audio file formats such as 3G2, 3GP, MP1, MP2, MP3, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A (AAC and Apple Lossless), AAC, aacPlus (HE-AAC, AAC+, HE-AAC+PS, eAAC+), FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Monkey’s Audio, CUE and M3U.

Easy CD-DA Extractor is a four-in-one software that includes the following modules:1) Audio CD Ripper

Rips audio CDs with accurate, secure, high-performance CD ripping engine. Bypasses ‘copy-protections’. Reads CDs that are in bad condition and reports possible errors on the disc. Automatically downloads disc information such as Artist, Track Titles, etc, and Cover Art image from the Internet. Allows editing of ID3/metadata and can embed advanced metadata fields such as Cover Art image to the files. Includes advanced audio processing features such as Peak Level Normalization, RMS Normalization, and Fade In/Out.

2) Audio File Format Converter

Music Converter - Converts audio files from one format to another. Allows editing of ID3/metadata and can embed advanced metadata fields such as Cover Art image to the files. Cover Art images can be downloaded from the Internet using the brilliant ‘Amazon Search’ feature. Can perform advanced audio processing such as Peak Level Normalization, RMS Normalization, and Fade In/Out.

3) Audio CD Creator

Writes Audio CDs that are compatible with all home/car CD-players. Burns Audio CDs on-the-fly from all audio file formats. Writes CD-Text (a CD-Text compatible CD-player can display the track titles while playing the CD).BURN-Proof enabled for error-free CD burning.

4) MP3/WMA CD Creator

Writes MP3 CDs and WMA CDs that are playable on a CD/DVD-player that supports the feature. MP3 and WMA CDs can also be played on a regular CD-ROM drive of a computer. Supports long JOLIET-filenames. Can also be used to write standard Data CDs. BURN-Proof enabled for error-free CD burning.
Author: Poikosoft

License: Shareware

Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are:

• It is free (for non-commercial purposes)
• It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player

With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.

Author: Andre Wiethoff
License: Freeware (for non-commercial use)

AAC/MP4 Advanced Audio Coding plugin for Nero Burning ROM. Based on Audiocoding.com’s libfaac v1.24 and libfaad v2.0

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Feurio! is an integrated software for creating audio CDs (especially samplers) for PCs with Windows NT? or Windows 95/98?. Feurio! combines “Audio Grabbing” (digitally reading of an audio CD), a database for CDs (including CDDB support), a CD and Wave player, a simple Wave Editor and a CD Writer.

Feurio! has real multitasking: While burning a CD, the next CD can be read. If you have more than one CD-Rom, data can be read from multiple CDs at the same time; during reading the tracks already read can be edited. Feurio! manages any number of projects (=CDs). Individual tracks can be freely copied to and from the projects, also the oder of the tracks can be modified easily.

Author: Jens Fangmeier
License: Shareware, unlimited trial

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) plugin for Nero Burning ROM. Based on Flac v1.1.0

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Lame MPEG-1 Layer-3 audio plugin for Nero Burning ROM. Based on the The Lame Project source v3.93.1.

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

LPAC (Lossless Predictive Audio Compression, .pac) plugin for Nero. Based on LPAC Codec DLL v3.08

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Monkeys Audio Lossless Compression (.ape) plugin for Nero. Based on Monkey’s Audio SDK v3.99

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

MusePack (.mpc) plugin for Nero. Based on mppenc v1.14 and mppdec v1.95z6.

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Nero 7 Lite is a customized installer for Nero 7. The content of this installer is reduced in comparison to the oriniginal Nero 7, including only the really important features of the software suite. Nero 7 Lite also includes the MauSau’s Nero Audio Plugins preinstalled. At the software homepage you can also find even stripped down edition Nero 7 Micro.

Nero Lite pack contains:

• Nero Burning Rom (with VideoCD Support and MauSau Audio Plug-ins)
• Nero Express
• Nero CoverDesigner
• Nero WaveEditor
• Nero Toolkit

You must have a valid Nero 7 serial to use this installer.
Author: updatepack.nl
License: Shareware

Nero 8, the newest version of the world’s best-selling multimedia suite, brings the digital world to your PC. Now it’s easy to organize and manage all your multimedia files, as well as create and edit new digital content. Nero’s sleek design and user-friendly tools make completing projects fun and enjoyable.

• Direct access to all features from the project launcher
• High Definition format support
• Xbox 360™ and PlayStation® 3 streaming features
• Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burning support
• SecurDisc data protection support
• Copy a disc with just one click
• Graphics optimized for Windows Vista™
• Continual free updates

Author: Nero
License: Shareware

Nero Digital Audio Reference Quality MPEG-4 & 3GPP Audio Codec:

• Compression Ratios ranging from ultra high (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely perfect audiophile encodings
• Crystal Clear, Award Winning Sound Quality at every compression ratio and bit rate!
• Support for Embedded Album Art (Covers, Booklets, Lyrics!)
• Store Entire Audio Album in a Single .mp4 File with all the Features of an Audio CD embedded inside, but at a fraction of the space!
• Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Codec
• Fully Compatible with the Latest Version of the State-of-the-art MPEG-4 Audio Standard (LC-AAC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2)

The Encoder expects .WAV files in PCM wave format as input and provides .MP4 in MPEG-4/3GPP file format as output, as well as quality/ bitrate values as parameters. The Decoder expects input in MPEG-4/3GPP file format and provides PCM wave files as output. For more detailed information about the basic and advanced options of the codec, please also refer to the readme.txt file provided in the archive.

Author: Nero
License: Freeware

Nero Wav replacement plugin.

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

XIPH.org Ogg Vorbis plugin for Nero. Based on Ogg Vorbis Win32 SDK v1.0.1.

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

OptimFROG Lossless Audio Coder (.ofr) plugin for Nero. Based on OptimFROG v4.509

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted

SoftSound Shorten Lossless Compression (.shn) plugin for Nero. Based on Etree.org Shorten v3.5.1.

Author: MauSau
License: Freeware, donations accepted