14 DAY TRIAL // Building up an Audio CD is no tough pickle for any computer enthusiast out there. I haven’t met a disc burning application not to allow one to create this type of media, so the option couldn’t have missed in Ashampo Burning Studio. However, it is disc ripping that is far more popular these days, as Audio CDs’ decline started with the popularization of devices able to read from DVDs and Blu-ray media.
As expected, Burning Studio from Ashampoo allows you to back up original CDs or preserve them in pristine condition by converting the tracks to a transferable format such as WAV, MP3 or WMV. These are actually the audio files the application can convert an Audio CD to.
The steps to copying the tracks locally are not numerous or difficult to follow. As soon as the inserted disc has been recognized as a valid Audio CD, the application proceeds to finding matches for the names of the tracks so that you don’t have to enter them manually. This feature is completely automated and in case multiple matches are found, you have to pick the right choice. Of course, it may happen for the match found to be totally off or find no match at all. In this case, typing the names of the tracks yourself is the only chance for correct metadata to be attached.
In the panel with rip options, you can define the output folder, as well as choose the format the tracks should be turned into. For each of the choices available (MP3, WAV or WMA), there is the possibility of customization. Even for someone less experienced with this sort of job, there is no tough time: read speed, bitrate (for MP3) or sample rate (for WAV and WMA) or channels (mono or stereo). That is it and nothing more. As soon as you hit that “Rip” button, you will unleash the backup procedure.
