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Cheaper songs on iTunes, bands distributing their music directly and the death of DRM: we share our predictions for the music business in 2008.
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Rip audio CD into MP3, WMA, and FLAC formats.
Extract audio tracks from audio CDs and convert them into WAV or MP3 files.
Convert CD audio tracks into MP3, OGG, or WAV files.
Rip audio from CD into popular media formats by simply right-clicking the disk icon in Explorer.
Convert audio files from CD to MP3, WMA, and WAV.