{"id":1465,"date":"2025-06-05T02:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T02:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2025-06-05T02:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T02:38:59","slug":"ancient-cd-ripping-tool-updated-for-the-first-time-in-16-years-now-supports-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/ancient-cd-ripping-tool-updated-for-the-first-time-in-16-years-now-supports-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient CD ripping tool updated for the first time in 16 years, now supports Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">But Windows 11 was updated in 2022 to rip audio CDs without any extra tools.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/QrbmeK25m6hkGiTzocw65o.jpg\" alt=\"Blu-ray discs\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Image credit: Shutterstock)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CD ripping tool CD2WAV32 has just been updated toversion 4.00jpafter 16 years in stasis (machine translated). Developer Moroboshi Ramu seems to have been prompted to issue the update to make the software fully compatible withWindows 1124H2, 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\u2019s page being mostly about dolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SzTQbmPVjVEP3b4hfbfTcZ.jpg\" alt=\"CD2WAV32 screenshot\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/detail-Microsoft-1744725-916TA135H\">916TA135H Battery for Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 1943<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The internal character code processing is now mostly Unicode.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ID3Tag related items have also been changed from Shift-JIS to Unicode.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The tool\u2019s GUI, including common controls, has been updated to the latest Windows 11 style.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>File size and other information related to the files is now processed in 64-bit format.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Default compression is now provided by the Media Foundation API.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Help file has been removed and is replaced by a PDF.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is now possible to start this tool, even if you don\u2019t have a CD-ROM attached.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/detail-Microsoft-1746388-G3HTA056H\">G3HTA056H Battery for Microsoft Surface Pro X 13&#8243; Tablet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"nice-tool-but-windows-11-s-media-player-app-can-rip-audio-cds-3\">Nice tool, but Windows 11\u2019s Media Player App can rip audio CDs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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, andMicrosoftupdated its Media Player App to be able to rip your tunes back in 2022, with MP3 support added in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s app is very easy to use, though that is also its weak point \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2018Rip CD\u2019 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\u2019s general settings section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Windows 11 was updated in 2022 to rip audio CDs without any extra tools. (Image credit: Shutterstock) CD ripping tool CD2WAV32 has just been updated toversion 4.00jpafter 16 years in stasis (machine translated). Developer Moroboshi Ramu seems to have been prompted to issue the update to make the software fully compatible withWindows 1124H2, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/ancient-cd-ripping-tool-updated-for-the-first-time-in-16-years-now-supports-windows-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancient CD ripping tool updated for the first time in 16 years, now supports Windows 11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterymap.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}