Ancient CD ripping tool updated for the first time in 16 years, now supports Windows 11 - Please excuse the rest of the linked developer’s page being mostly about dolls.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/ancient-cd-ripping-tool-updated-for-the-first-time-in-16-years-now-supports-windows-11

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By Mark Tyson published June 4, 2025

But Windows 11 was updated in 2022 to rip audio CDs without any extra tools.



CD ripping tool CD2WAV32 has just been updated to version 4.00jp after 16 years in stasis (machine translated). Developer Moroboshi Ramu seems to have been prompted to issue the update to make the software fully compatible with Windows 11 24H2, but there are several important changes under the hood compared to the ancient 3.X releases, too. Please excuse the rest of the linked developer’s page being mostly about dolls.



Ramu says that the last update to CD2WAV32 was 16 years ago, when a patch that was authored on a Windows 7 machine was released. Going forward, the dev (and doll enthusiast) says that only Windows 11 will be supported, as that is the only system they use now, though the tool has been casually tested on a Windows 10 PC.

With the compiler change to the latest Delphi 12.1 Community Edition, Ramu says the following changes were made to create CD2WAV32 for Windows 11 Revision 4.00jp:

• The internal character code processing is now mostly Unicode.
• ID3Tag related items have also been changed from Shift-JIS to Unicode.
• The tool’s GUI, including common controls, has been updated to the latest Windows 11 style.
• File size and other information related to the files is now processed in 64-bit format.
• The 16-bit code call function of MSCDEX, which can no longer be used, has been pruned, as have TwinVQ compression, and code to alert users of ASPI errors.
• Default compression is now provided by the Media Foundation API.
• The Help file has been removed and is replaced by a PDF.
• It is now possible to start this tool, even if you don’t have a CD-ROM attached.
• And various changes have been implemented to get the CDDB service to run again so ripping can be done with meaningful file names, track titles, artist names, genres etc.

Overall, it looks like a capable tool with lots of options for the end-user. As a Japanese program, with no localized English version as far as we can tell, a quick poke around the UI revealed extensive options for CD-ROM support, file format, compression algorithm, and tagging. It did indeed run on my desktop system without an optical disc drive attached.

Nice tool, but Windows 11’s Media Player App can rip audio CDs​

People still hold onto and collect audio CDs even if we are firmly into the age of streaming media, and fast internet connection options abound. Occasionally ripping an audio CD is thus still a useful task, and Microsoft updated its Media Player App to be able to rip your tunes back in 2022, with MP3 support added in 2023.

Microsoft’s app is very easy to use, though that is also its weak point – it has fewer configuration options. Nevertheless, settings for audio format (AAC, MP3, FLAC, and more, but no WAV) and quality (from 96Kbps to 320Kbps with lossy formats) are probably enough for most folks.

To use the built-in Media Player App with Windows 11 for ripping, click on the audio CD section to the left (you need to have an audio CD inserted). Then, looking to the right of the highlighted play button, you will see the ‘Rip CD’ option. A menu to the right of this is where you tweak the rip settings and bit rate. Ripped media files will appear in your music library, which is set up in the App’s general settings section.

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It is a blog mainly focused on dolls and electronic machine tools.

 

[tehpope]

Just use EAC like any other audiophile autist.

 

[Oliver Onions]

wtf is with the creepy anime doll at the bottom?

 

[DrLurk]

wtf is with the creepy anime doll at the bottom?

Please stop talking about the tranny dolls.

 

[Barry Williams]

Windows Media Player has been able to rip CDs as far back as at least XP. The reason why people prefer to use other programs to do it though is because WMP always rips audio in that garbage WMA format that literally no one likes. CD2WAV does exactly what the name implies, it rips audio tracks to a different format (WAV). This mentality of "just use the built in app it's not hard" is anti consumer niggercattle shit.

 

[Bakarina]

wtf is with the creepy anime doll at the bottom?

Looks like a BJD (doll jointed doll). Probably a Dollfie from Volks at a glance (the pioneers of the hobby).

Volks started out as a garage kit hobbyist company and then expanded into fashion dolls and their bigger anime cousins in the late 90s.

 

[NoReturn]

Hell yeah, man. That's nice news.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Looks like a BJD (doll jointed doll). Probably a Dollfie from Volks at a glance (the pioneers of the hobby).

Thank you for the information, but I was asking more generally why a photo of gook Annabelle was included in an article about CD rippers.

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

Thank you for the information, but I was asking more generally why a photo of gook Annabelle was included in an article about CD rippers.

have you tried reading the article? it helps sometimes

Please excuse the rest of the linked developer’s page being mostly about dolls.

wow first paragraph

 

[Oliver Onions]

have you tried reading the article? it helps sometimes

I went to the source linked at the top and the creepy doll isn't there --in fact the image is located nowhere on the page I can see-- so I remain perplexed why OP felt the need to include it here.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I've never heard of this. I just used Nero back in the day, when it was all free and not bloatloaded with ads.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I went to the source linked at the top and the creepy doll isn't there --in fact the image is located nowhere on the page I can see-- so I remain perplexed why OP felt the need to include it here.

First paragraph links to the Japanese blog post announcing this software, and warns about the dolls:

CD ripping tool CD2WAV32 has just been updated to version 4.00jp after 16 years in stasis (machine translated). Developer Moroboshi Ramu seems to have been prompted to issue the update to make the software fully compatible with Windows 11 24H2, but there are several important changes under the hood compared to the ancient 3.X releases, too. Please excuse the rest of the linked developer’s page being mostly about dolls.

After the end of the Tom's Hardware article, I put a horizontal rule as a divider, link+archive of the blog post, link+archive of the home page, the machine translation of the blog's name and tagline/description, and the banner that is on every page. Why? Because it's funny.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Why? Because it's funny.

That's all I needed to know. Thanks.

I've never heard of this. I just used Nero back in the day, when it was all free and not bloatloaded with ads.

The first one I remember using was called Audio Catalyst, I think. It was a pain in the ass because you had to manually type in all the track info.

 

[Poultry Enthusiast]

While I do appreciate and own several dollfies, the dev's Xitter is full of these 'anthro' dolls that he sells online

 

[BradeRunna]

I guess it's time to break out the CD collection I don't have and rip some music.

I know, downloading your music off the internet is too easy.

 

[TheRedChair]

Windows Media Player has been able to rip CDs as far back as at least XP. The reason why people prefer to use other programs to do it though is because WMP always rips audio in that garbage WMA format that literally no one likes. CD2WAV does exactly what the name implies, it rips audio tracks to a different format (WAV). This mentality of "just use the built in app it's not hard" is anti consumer niggercattle shit.

One of the things people forget that the .WAV file is a direct 1 to 1 recording of what is being copied. That's a big plus as I do have a lot of .WAV files on my rig. Mp3/4 compress and omit data (as the developers feel that it is not needed) from the original recording.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

One of the things people forget that the .WAV file is a direct 1 to 1 recording of what is being copied. That's a big plus as I do have a lot of .WAV files on my rig. Mp3/4 compress and omit data (as the developers feel that it is not needed) from the original recording.

lossy vs lossless
iirc there's a few compressing lossless formats like flac, too

also there's a bullshit about Win11 and a lot of older CD drives, if memory serves, like at work literally EVERY cd/dvd drive in the building was forcibly taken off line, some of them only five years old with the 11 upgrade

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

All this guys website reminds me of the guy who has all the Mario music, but also for some reason porn

 

[Make Wraith Wraithy Again]

What is the slowbro of 40x CD writing speeds?